The Atlantic Avenue BID Steering Committee was formed back in 2008 in the hopes of organizing, improving and promoting a roughly ten-block stretch at the western end of Atlantic Avenue. After a couple of years of consensus-building, the effort has started to make some very concrete progress in the form of public support from Community Boards 2 and 6 recently; in fact, subcommittees from both community boards voted unanimously in favor of the plan in the past week. Once established, the BID would cover all properties fronting Atlantic Avenue from the BQE to 4th Avenue and one block north and south on all side streets within the district. (Properties from Court Street to Smith Street on the north side are excluded—they’re in the Court-Livingston-Schermehorn BID.) With an annual budget of $240,000 the BID will tackle marketing, sanitation, streetscape, and traffic and crime advocacy. Next up is a tentative date with the City Planning Commission on December 1st, with an eye to establishing the BID by July 2011. For more info check out their website.