Join OTBA, and start receiving benefits today.

OTBA offers many tangible benefits that you can put to work right now to help your business prosper. And our board of directors and staff are working to add more benefits during the coming year.

Join us today! Membership Dues

• $45 First Year Introductory Membership Fee
• $150 for Small Businesses [1 - 4 employees]
• $250 for for Small Businesses [5 - 25 employees]
• $450 for for Small Businesses [more than 25 employees], Commercial Property Owner or Group Practice
• $100 for Non-Profits

Download our Membership Form and send it in with your dues!

Join OTBA, and start making waves.

By adding your voice with our other local businesses, you have direct input in shaping the changes taking place in our Town Center. OTBA committees are working now on parking, funding for facade improvement, practical can-do strategies for increasing Old Town's vitality, gateway signage, crime and safety issues, and the long-term impact of current development activities.

Plus, OTBA's Main Street Takoma initiative, a program sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, works specifically on economic revitalization for small downtown communities like ours. Through Main Street, OTBA has access to a wealth of research and experience from hundreds of other small commercial districts and businesses around the country that OTBA can draw on to revitalize our local downtown areas and capitalize on Old Takoma's unique character and strengths in order to benefit your business.

Join OTBA, and start being heard.

Your OTBA membership not only gives you a direct say on these critical issues, but also ensures that your voice and business concerns are represented before all three of our local jurisdictions: Takoma Park, MD; Montgomery County, MD; and Takoma, DC.

The Ways OTBA is Working to Make Things Happen:

• Economic development, business retention and recruitment
• Joint promotions in newspaper ads and at Metro stations
• Events to bring people into the commercial area
• Market analysis study – Final Report October 2009
• Monthly Business Seminars and Networking Sessions
• OTBA Repeat Rewards Program, a customer loyalty program for the whole area
• Websites: www.mainstreettakoma.org; www.greattakomadeals.com
• Your Business Page on OTBA website – coming in January 2010 – FREE for members
• Takoma Park Street Festival -- booths and discounts
  
• Façade Improvement Matching Grant Programs in DC and MD
• Revolving Loan Fund
• On-going clean-up efforts regarding graffiti, trash, weeds
• Flowers and Watering down the Carroll Corridor as well as the Adopt a Tree Program
• Public Art
  

OTBA also coordinates with many local groups to help keep the business community connected with other activities in the area: Safe Takoma, Historic Takoma, City of Takoma Park, Takoma Metro Mural Committee, and Neighborhood Associations.

If you have other concerns, come get involved and work with us! Together, we can make things happen.

OTBA: "Takoma Business" is our middle name! Join us today.