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Come experience the charm of Downtown Warsaw during our Sip N Shop event — an evening of local shopping, sipping, and sidewalk artistry. Bring your friends, support small businesses, sip something tasty, and enjoy a night filled with creativity and community!

Fashion hits the spotlight on Downtown Warsaw along with art and beauty at this three-day set of free and ticketed events featuring women and men’s styles from downtown’s four boutiques. The amazing weekend includes a sensational Friday night Sip N Shop event with live mannequins and complimentary wine and cheese in the participating boutiques and retail shops and art vendors and musicians lining downtown streets. Saturday features a red carpet and spotlight experience for arriving guests, followed by a runway show against a backdrop of interactive art and high energy music. The runway show is followed by an after party featuring a cabaret performance by from Wagon Wheel and mixing with fashion models and fellow guests. Finally, the weekend finishes on Sunday with a private Champagne Shop at participating boutiques featuring in-store specials.

Main Street Warsaw administers a façade grant program that is funded by the City of Warsaw. Qualified applicants may obtain matching grant funds up to a maximum of $10,000 for facades, storefronts, awnings and signs, depending on the scope of the work. Since 2003, Main Street Warsaw and the City of Warsaw have awarded over $398,000 in façade grants.

The Warsaw Community Development Corporation, now known as Main Street Warsaw, began as a downtown association in 1976. It was a group of business people concerned about the problems that were manifesting themselves in the Central Business District. This association began working to find solutions to problems of vacant buildings, deteriorating store fronts, parking and traffic flow — all common to small cities and towns at the time. As a way to formally approach the problem, the Warsaw Community Development Corporation (WCDC) was formed in 1980 and the name was changed to Main Street Warsaw in December 2021. This not-for-profit, 501 (C)3, corporation has continued to serve as a force to revitalize downtown Warsaw.

Help us to bring a festive atmosphere to downtown.

Third Friday is an ongoing event that brings a festive atmosphere to downtown Warsaw. Once a month, April-September the downtown streets are turned into a huge block party. Downtown merchants host the party.