Downtown Highland Park

About Downtown Highland Park

The vibrant downtown Highland Park district is home to unique boutiques, jewelry stores, home decor shops, amazing restaurants, and businesses catering to beauty and personal care. Walkable and friendly, it is home to many professional services businesses: accountants, attorneys, doctors, dentists and architects. Downtown Highland Park serves as the venue for many of the City’s events: from June through November, experience the Taste of Highland Park and other events at The Lot, Port Clinton Concerts, the Port Clinton Art Festival, the Bitter Jester Music Festival, and the Highland Park Chamber of Commerce Sidewalk Sale. The Central Business District is also steps away from Highland Park Hospital, City Hall, the Highland Park Library, the Highland Park Art Center and the North Shore Yacht Club. Downtown Highland Park is also fortunate to serve as the City’s growing multifamily residential area.

Downtown Highland Park defines the City, providing a shared sense of community for all Highland Park residents. We are less than one mile from the Park Avenue Beach on Lake Michigan and designated as a Tree City USA destination. Downtown Highland Park is easily accessible via the Metra North line. Downtown Highland Park is pedestrian and cyclist-friendly and has plenty of free parking.

The Central Business District is approximately 106 acres, home to about 450 businesses, and has a daytime population of close to 9,000. Within a 1.5 mile radius of the downtown the consumer population is 22,155, within a 4 mile radius it increases to 71,084, within a 7.5 mile radius it increases to 216,737, and within a 10 mile radius the consumer population increases to 519,900.