About Canton's Innovation District

The District

Downtown Canton’s Innovation District to lead the way in the city’s revitalization Accelerate and grow your business in downtown Canton’s Innovation District

Downtown Canton’s Innovation district is the region’s leading provider of business benefits and incentives. Not only will businesses who choose to locate their offices in one of the 47 buildings in a 12-block area have access to gigabit connectivity via fiber, rent subsidies are also available. The area is designed to foster creativity and attract the most promising business visionaries in the region, and along with them, their innovative product and service offerings.

If you are a young company or start up, have an idea that you’d like to turn into a business, or an emerging company looking for affordable and inventive workspace, the Downtown Canton Innovation District is the place to find your ideal workspace. The best and brightest connect with each other in this 12-block area in downtown Canton to propel their own businesses forward while sharing ideas and strategies that help each other, Canton, and the entire region.

While we were forced recently, with varying degrees of effectiveness, to work-from-home, the Downtown Canton Innovation District is designed to be an improvement on the pre-pandemic office ex‎‎perience. Even the strongest work-at-home converts admit that the structure along with human interaction received at the office is still critical. The Downtown Canton Innovation District will provide entrepreneurs focus on the task at hand – getting to market and growing their business!

In a world increasingly reliant on technology and the innovative products that propel us forward, the Downtown Canton Innovation District is a home for both current and emerging organizations and provide an environment that will nourish and grow new tech organizations while strengthening Northeast Ohio and the City of Canton’s economic climate.