Collegetown Small Business Alliance

How are all of our small business doing post commencement and the start of the summer?

Hello Collegetown! Tonight at St. Luke Lutheran Church on 109 Oak Ave. we will be meeting to reimagine the 400 block of College Ave.

Please come by to help revision our neighborhood. Tonight at 5:00 pm!

Congratulations, Lambrou Real Estate for winning the 2023 Collegetown window contest. The fireplace on the TV in the window put you over the top.

Attention Collegetown Businesses:

Lisa at Big Red Barber Shop has organized a holiday window contest, so show us your most fabulous, twinkly, shiny displays of cheer. Judging will take place by local Collegetown residents on December 20th.

Collegetown’s streets are looking better with some recent additions:

- Big Belly trash and recycling receptacles with historic Collegetown images, a collaboration between the Collegetown Small Business Alliance, City of Ithaca, and Tompkins Chamber Foundation as part of our Collegetown beautification and branding initiatives. We’re sad to see the brand new cans already tagged with graffiti though. 😕

- Gorgeous and powerful mural on the electrical box at the corner of College and Dryden, created by local artist Josh Swartwood and facilitated by our dear friends at also as part of the Collegetown beautification efforts they’re so forthright in helping with.

- New trees as part of the still-being-done new street scape on College Ave.

Thank you to all who love and care for our neighborhood. We have more beautification and branding projects in the works, so stay tuned!

We had a very productive, engaging “Community Conversations: Collegetown” this morning, coordinated by the Tompkins Chamber and hosted at Luna in Collegetown. Thank you to all who attended and shared!

What a treat to join colleagues from the Collegetown Small Business Alliance, City of Ithaca, Tompkins Chamber, Cornell University, Tompkins County, Ithaca Murals, and others to do a walk around Collegetown to identify new areas of improvement in signage, beautification, services, and more. We’re so glad so many entities are invested in our neighborhood!

Collegetown sure is pretty on this snowy morning. We love seeing so many small business windows looking festive!

Coming soon to the former Little Thai House space on the 200 block of Dryden Road: BiBiBOWL and a sister restaurant next door in the former Asian Noodle House space! Welcome to the neighborhood!

We’ve been working with the Tompkins Chamber and City of Ithaca to get Collegetown benches ordered and installed, helping better and more cohesively brand our neighborhood, and today the first one has one in! We are thrilled!

Today was Ithaca Beer Co. in Collegetown’s official ribbon cutting. Representatives from the City of Ithaca, Tompkins County, Tompkins Chamber, and Collegetown Small Business Alliance were all there to share in the celebration!

Yesterday, the Tompkins Chamber, City of Ithaca, and Collegetown Small Business Alliance partnered up with a team of volunteers for the Collegetown Business Walk. We spoke with business owners and managers to have conversations and understand how to make our unique neighborhood even better. Thank you to all who participated and shared excellent ideas! We’re working together to grow even stronger!