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Downtown Excelsior Partnership reports record retail sales, visitor gains and $604,000 in private reinvestment for 2024
Summary
Lindsey Baxter presented the Downtown Excelsior Partnership annual report to the City Council, citing higher retail taxable sales, strong visitor metrics, volunteer hours and grants awarded to businesses, and plans for 2025 festivals and infrastructure investments funded in part by ARPA and Missouri tourism dollars.
Lindsey Baxter, executive director of the Downtown Excelsior Partnership, told the City Council on March 17 that 2024 was a strong year for downtown economic activity, with increases in retail taxable sales, visitor counts and private investment.
Baxter said downtown retail taxable sales totaled $7.14 million in 2024, a 7.1% increase over 2023 and a 29.5% increase compared with 2019. She told the council the Partnership spent $128,000 on marketing in 2024, awarded $16,000 in façade grants to businesses, logged 9,420 volunteer hours and documented $604,000 in private investment into downtown properties.
Why it matters: downtown visitation and sales support small…
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