Projects

This is the place to think outside the box, to give warm welcomes, and take pride in your city. 

Light Post Flower Baskets
In May of 2021, light post flower baskets were added from the 300 to the 800 block of Market Street. The flower baskets bring more color to downtown and are a nice complement to our pole banners and metalwork that line the street.

The flowers are grown at Butcher Family Farm and installed in the spring and maintained all summer through September by Greenscape Landscape. Each basket is sponsored by individuals or businesses and will include a sign with the sponsor’s name. The cost to sponsor a basket pays for the planting, watering, and maintenance of the basket.

Thank you to this year’s sponsors!
Atkinson Bonding Hall Financial Advisors Parkersburg Pride
Balanced Solutions LLC Jim Full (In Memory Of) Richard Newhart, DDS, Dental Implants
Bernard McDonough Foundation John & Lynn Nicholson RVP Properties, LLC  
Blair & Kim Couch Kuraray America Inc Simmons Insurance (L. Michael Simmons)
CFI Engineering Company Larry & Rachel Johnson SOS Office Furniture
City of Parkersburg Lindsey & Bret Piersol St. Joseph Landing (not affiliated w/ SJ Recovery)
Community Bank Maka Mia Pizza (Vienna) Supporter
Conley Law Office, PLLC McDonough, Eddy, Poling The Bosley Companies
Coplin Health Systems & Baylous, AC United Bank
DeBarr Trucking Co, Inc McHappy's Bake Shoppe Wanda & BJ Meeks (In Memory Of)
EPI Insulation Company MOV Insurance
First Mutual Bank Napoli’s

Downtown Selfie Stations

Downtown PKB’s Arts and Culture Committee continues to add more public art and selfie stations to downtown Parkersburg! Selfie Stations are murals from local artists and are placed on the sides of buildings in downtown Parkersburg. Once all installs are complete, a self-guided walking tour handout will be available to assist you. These locations are a great place for senior pictures or just to show you’ve visited our area! Click here for a map of selfie station locations. Make sure to tag the hashtag #WeArePKB

Selfie station locations -
1) side of the Greater Parkersburg Convention and Visitors Bureau (350 7th Street)
2) 6th Street side of the 531 Market Street building
3) front of the former Point Park Marketplace building (113 Ann Street)
4) side of Jimmy Avocado’s (327 Juliana Street)
5) 4th Street side of the 400 Market Street building
6) side of the Unity Cafe (212 7th Street)

Metal Artwork
Metal artwork in the form of bees, butterflies, and flowers line Market Street in downtown Parkersburg. The beautiful artwork created by the artists of the Wood County Society’s Artbeat Studio is a great addition to the landscape of downtown. Each piece took an average of 14 hours each to create, including the fabrication, sanding, priming, painting, and sealing of the work to ensure durability. This project was a collective effort of the Wood County Society Artbeat Studio, the City of Parkersburg, and Downtown PKB.

Pole Banners

Downtown PKB’s Design Committee added decorative banners down Market Street. They serve to welcome visitors to our downtown community. Banners are changed out quarterly to freshen up Market Street and provide some colorful signage to downtown.

Downtown Clean-up Days

Looking for a way to give back to your community? Are you a high school or college student, business or organization looking for community service hours? We can help! Join us at one of our clean-up days, and spend a couple of hours picking up trash and pulling weeks in downtown Parkersburg. Details of where volunteers will gather will be communicated on our Facebook page (@downtownpkb). Supplies will be distributed to participants.

Message us on Facebook or call the office at (304) 865-0522 if you’d like to volunteer so we can make sure we have enough supplies for everyone!

Clean-up days occur monthly for two hours from April through October -
April 19; Noon - 2 p.m. May 11; 9 - 11 a.m.
June 13; 2 - 4 p.m. July 19; 9 - 11 a.m.
August 16; 9 - 11 a.m. September 20; 9 - 11 a.m.
October 24; 2 - 4 p.m.

Adopt-a-Pot Program: Would you like to help us keep our flowers beautiful all summer? Downtown PKB is once again hosting our “Adopt-a-Pot” program. Download the form, complete it, and mail it in agreeing to sponsor (water and weed) a flower pot or group of pots from May through October. Downtown PKB will have a sign made with your name that will go in the pot.

Flowers will be planted in their pots during the clean-up day in May. Details on this day will be shared at a later time. We invite you to attend so you can plant the flowers in your pots, but if you cannot make it, we will assign the planting to a clean-up volunteer. Maintenance following the planting will be up to the sponsor.

If you are interested in adopting a pot/s, click here. Print the form, complete it, and mail it to Downtown PKB, PO Box 1671, Parkersburg, WV 26102, or you can email the information needed on the form to jessica@downtownpkb.com.