About the Missoula Downtown Association
What is the
Missoula Downtown Association?
The Missoula Downtown Association (MDA) is a not-for-profit membership based organization dedicated to promoting, supporting and enhancing the vitality of downtown Missoula. As such, its mission is to:
- Retain and promote downtown Missoula as Western Montana's center of business, culture and entertainment.
- Provide a forum for mutual solutions to common problems downtown.
- Encourage preservation and enhancement of the area's physical beauty.
- Create public awareness of the historic and cultural significance of Missoula's unique downtown to the community as a whole.
The MDA...
- Is its membership: people who are proud, people who are dedicated, people who work together.
- Encourages historical preservation and enhancement of the area's physical beauty.
- Is a visible body consulted on matters affecting the Downtown.
- Beautifies the neighborhoods: Riverfront Trails, Flower Baskets, Christmas Decorations.
- Maintains and rents the Caras Park Pavilion for community events.
- Organizes and sponsors Out to Lunch (a weekly summer lunchtime entertainment extravaganza) and Downtown ToNight (an evening time partner to Out to Lunch) as well as many other events.
- Is funded by membership dues and Board-sponsored fundraising events.
