Request for Quote for a Business Corridor Branding Project

The City of Little Canada has issued a Request for Quote for banner design to enhance placemaking and branding along the city’s primary business corridor as part of a grant secured from Ramsey County Commercial Corridor Initiative program. Attached is the full RFQ.

Project Goals

• Design and produce a banner design to enhance placemaking and branding along the primary business corridor
• Engagement with local residents and business owners as part of the design process
• Build brand awareness for Little Canada businesses by incorporating the existing City of Little Canada logo
• Enhance inclusion efforts by honoring the diverse backgrounds in Little Canada, including our French-Canadian heritage and current businesses and resident demographics.

Project Deliverables

• Partner with the city for corridor engagement with residents and businesses
• Partner with the city staff to engage historically underrepresented residents
• Designed banner for city consideration. The city will also require:
  • All raw graphic files including any design elements such as symbols, shapes, backgrounds etc.
  • Overall brand narrative for the banner (“the why”) behind the design
  • Font/typography used in banner design
  • Color palette used in banner design

The City of Little Canada has requested a response to several engagement and design-based process questions as part of a Request for Quote. For those firms with questions, please, submitted in any electronic format to

Request for quote responses are due on December 12, at 4:30 PM. Responses should be submitted electronically to For security reasons, you must enable JavaScript to view this E-mail address. .