It is home to several of the area's major landmarks and event venues including the Epic Center, Century II Performing Arts & Convention Center, Intrust Bank Arena, Equity Bank Park, Keeper of the Plains sculpture, the Old Town entertainment district, and the historic Delano neighborhood.

[4] Continued economic growth through the 1880s spurred further downtown development, including the completion of the Wichita City Building in 1892.

To commemorate the centennial of Wichita's founding, the city razed The Forum and in its place built the Century II Performing Arts & Convention Center which opened in 1969.

[5] In 1987, construction finished downtown on the Epic Center office tower, the tallest building in the city and in the state of Kansas.

Portions of Downtown overlap with the Midtown neighborhood to the north, Delano across the river to the west, and Riverside to the northwest.

Price Woodard Park occupies 4.21 acres (1.70 ha) on the east bank of the Arkansas River immediately south of Douglas Avenue.

Named after a local civil rights leader, the park is located on the site where the Dockum Drug Store sit-in took place in 1958.

[34] Finlay Ross Park is a 0.5-acre (0.20 ha) mini-park east of Century II consisting of landscaped, multi-level pools, fountains, and waterfalls.

[35] The 0.45-acre (0.18 ha) Heritage Square Park, located on East William Street, includes a gazebo and rock fountain pool.

[37] Naftzger Memorial Park covers 0.88 acres (0.36 ha) on East Douglas Avenue and includes a gazebo, decorative waterfall, and a fountain dedicated to temperance radical Carrie Nation.

[41] The base point for the numbering of all postal addresses in the city and Sedgwick County is the intersection of Douglas Avenue and Main Street.

[44] BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad operate freight rail lines which run north-south through downtown Wichita, parallel to Santa Fe Avenue.