GROWING KOKOMO.
The Greater Kokomo Economic Development Alliance brings together business growth, downtown development, visitor attraction, and innovation to drive one outcome: a stronger, more prosperous community. Our divisions work as one to attract investment, support businesses, and move Kokomo forward.
THIS IS WHAT IMPACT LOOKS LIKE
Behind every number is work happening across all five divisions of the Greater Kokomo Alliance — driving growth, attracting people, and strengthening our community.
$252.2M
Tourism
economic
impact
10,000+
Strawberry Festival attendance
112
Chamber
events
annually
1,125
Flower
baskets
planted
$29M
Inventrek’s
impact on
Indiana GDP
1.65M
Alliance’s total
reach on
social media
(and that’s just one year)
One Alliance. Multiple Engines Driving Growth.
Most communities spread this work across multiple organizations. Kokomo does it differently.
The Alliance brings together five divisions under one roof — each focused on a different piece of growth, all working toward the same goal: economic prosperity.
• Economic Development
• Chamber of Commerce
• Downtown Association
• Visitors Bureau
• Inventrek Tech Park
Individually strong. Collectively powerful.
How We Move Kokomo/Howard County Forward
We don’t just promote the community. We actively build it.
Grow Business
& Investment
We support new and existing businesses with sites, incentives, and strategic growth opportunities.
Support Entrepreneurs
Through Inventrek and business programs, we help ideas turn into successful companies.
Activate
Downtown
We create events, spaces, and experiences that make downtown vibrant and connected.
Drive Visitor Travel
We bring visitors to Kokomo through events, marketing, and national exposure.
Strengthen Local Business
Through the Chamber, we connect businesses and provide resources to help them succeed.
BRINGING NEW VISITORS. CREATING NEW OPPORTUNITIES.
An investment in Kokomo’s future
The Kokomo Conference Center is a new economic development asset for Kokomo, designed to bring conferences, meetings, events and visitors to our community from outside the area. With 55,000 square feet of flexible space, state-of-the-art technology, full-service culinary offerings and a unique automotive gallery, the conference center gives Kokomo a new opportunity to attract gatherings that bring new people, new spending and new business to our community.
Located in downtown Kokomo and connected by skybridge to a 108-room Hilton Garden Inn, the conference center makes it easy for visitors to stay, dine, shop and experience all that Kokomo has to offer.
The Greater Kokomo Economic Development Alliance and Visitors Bureau helped bring this vision together, working with community partners to create an asset that strengthens Kokomo’s visitor economy and creates opportunities for local businesses.
There’s a Role for You in Kokomo’s Growth
The Alliance’s impact is powered by people and partners across the community.
Here’s how you can be part of it.
Become
a Member
Join a network of businesses working to grow Kokomo.
Support
or Sponsor
Partner with us to make community initiatives possible.
Volunteer/
Get Involved
Help bring events and initiatives to life while making a direct impact on the Kokomo community.
Connect to Grow
Your Business
Connect with other entrepreneurs and access resources to help your business grow.
Let’s Build What’s Next — Together
Whether you’re starting, expanding, or exploring, the Alliance is ready to help.
The Greater Kokomo Chamber of Commerce is a proud member of the ICEA
ICEA is the only professional association for staff leaders that are employed by local chambers of commerce in Indiana. Incorporated in 1915, ICEA stands firm on a solid foundation for developing a strong network of professionals leading local chambers across Indiana. ICEA membership has become synonymous with access to a network of experienced chamber executives with exposure to emerging trends and usable ideas on every facet of chamber of commerce management.
Kokomo is part of the Indiana Main Street Network as a Downtown Affiliate Network Member
Main Street America has been helping revitalize older and historic commercial districts for more than 35 years. Today it is a network of more than 1,600 neighborhoods and communities, rural and urban, who share both a commitment to place and to building stronger communities through preservation-based economic development. Main Street America is a program of the nonprofit National Main Street Center, a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
