Uptown Westerville Inc. is a 501(c)3 organization in the Uptown area that works every day to ensure Uptown Westerville is an area people want to live, work and play. Investing in Uptown is investing in our future. When small businesses thrive, when residents have pride for their home, when people visit from other towns, and when our community is connected, we know that the future of our favorite place is bright. Please consider becoming a member of Uptown Westerville Inc, when you become a member of UWI, you support those efforts that strengthen the heart of Uptown.
Initiatives and events made possible, in part, by membership dollars include:
Uptown Westerville Inc is working hard for you and the Westerville community. To keep these great things happening, we need your support. Please see membership levels below:
Initiatives and events made possible, in part, by membership dollars include:
- Successful nomination of the Uptown Westerville Commercial District to the National Register of Historic Places (lists Westerville Nationally as a historic destination and makes properties eligible for tax credits for restoration projects)
- Historic Plaque Program (provides a walking tour for community members and visitors, show cases Westerville’s history and encourages historic preservation)
- Westerville Saturday Farmers Market (brings thousands of people into Uptown from May through October, provides income to almost 40 farms and small businesses, provides fresh, locally produced food to the community, offers Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.. Includes events to engage the community: Yoga on the Green, Farm to Table Cooking Classes, Zumbini children’s music and movement classes, Professional Knife Sharpening, healthy nutrition demonstrations by Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Mount Carmel St. Ann’s)
- Animated Display Project (Uptown Businesses and Otterbein University Maker Space partnership to make engaging animated displays during the holiday season)
- Extensive social media presence (3 Facebook pages, Twitter, Instagram and 126,151 visits to the website one the past year)
- Wayfinding Signage in Uptown (construct and install wayfinding signage for Uptown businesses off State Street)
- Heritage Tourism Book (publication date January 2020; book educating the nation on Westerville’s significant role in the Prohibition movement)
- Uptown Cookie Walk (pick up a Cheryl's cookie at each of the 26 participating businesses)
- Westerville Art Hop (33 participating host locations and 42 participating artists)
- Uptown Ghost Story Tours (10 stops celebrating Westerville’s history)
- Uptown Farm to Table Dinner (elegant dinner at Jorgensen's Historic Barn celebrating the offerings of the Uptown Westerville Saturday Market)
- Uptown Untapped (Craft beer and music festival)
- One Westerville Christmas Caroling (3 Westerville High School choirs joining together for a choral extravaganza, followed by caroling with the community throughout Uptown)
Uptown Westerville Inc is working hard for you and the Westerville community. To keep these great things happening, we need your support. Please see membership levels below: