Another BID for Downtown Area
We’re a little late on this one but it’s still worth mentioning…On June 14, Mayor Bloomberg signed into law the creation of a new Business Improvement District (BID) for Downtown Brooklyn. Bounded by Court, Joralemon, Flatbush and Atlantic, the new district will serve about 195 commercial properties with its annual budget of $765,000. We were…
We’re a little late on this one but it’s still worth mentioning…On June 14, Mayor Bloomberg signed into law the creation of a new Business Improvement District (BID) for Downtown Brooklyn. Bounded by Court, Joralemon, Flatbush and Atlantic, the new district will serve about 195 commercial properties with its annual budget of $765,000. We were interested to learn how the membership fees were charged: Turns its a combination of a $23 fee per linear foot of street frontage and a $.0024 per dollar of individual property assessed valuation. This new BID, which will be known officially as the Court Livingston Schermerhorn Business Improvement District, will rub elbows with the existing MetroTech BID, Fulton Mall Association and BAM LDC. Turf wars shouldn’t be a problem though: Like the other downtown BIDs before it, the Court Livingston Schermerhorn BID is expected to be taken under the wings of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership. The BID was initially sponsored by City Council Members Weprin, Yassky, James, Seabrook and White.
Bloomberg Signs Brooklyn BID Legislation [NYC.gov]
City Planning Commission N 070214 [NYC.gov]
New BID Gets Stamp of Approval [Fort Greene Courier]
Court-Livingston-Schermerhorn BID Established [Brooklyn Eagle]
So Gravy and La Rosa have to pay but not Trout and Pacifico?
I used to live in philly – the Center City District ran a ton of surveys each year (parking lot prices, retail establishments, pedestrian counts at various intersections, and other stuff I can’t recall) – Do these BIDS do similar stuff? or is it all clean and safe? The CCD in Philly was able to marshal their data to argue for policy reforms (and to point out that it was cheaper in Center City to get a parking ticket than it was to park it in a lot for the day).
I’d be very curious to know what – if anything these various BIDS do. Have people worked with them before? Are they simply providing services that (I think) the city *should* be providing already?