31 Jan Discover Polk CBD Mid-Year Report
Please see the link to our 31 January 2020 Mid-Year Report, which we submit to the Office of Economic and Workforce Development and to all our constituents. ...
Please see the link to our 31 January 2020 Mid-Year Report, which we submit to the Office of Economic and Workforce Development and to all our constituents. ...
A working group of the Discover Polk CBD Board interviewed four well qualified local candidates for the Executive Director position, and unanimously agreed on a unique solution: Tonic Nightlife Group, LLC, a local hospitality and community affairs management company. The co-founders, Ben Bleiman and Duncan...
Five volunteers in 14.12 hours on 12 and 20 December 2019 logged 11,113 items of concern within the Discover Polk CBD footprint! The bulk of the findings were gum residue (64% of items), cigarette butts (19.43%) and general street litter (9.21%). Graffiti (including stickers and...
Exactly what it sounds like: you decide what categories of detritus/rubbish/litter you are going to count, and what the perimeters of the area for counting are, and you launch a team to document unique instances of the offending matter. You could do this with a...
Discover Polk CBD Board has initiated four Working Groups: Clean and Safe, Business Retention and Recruitment, Marketing and District Branding, and Streetscape Enhancements. Working Groups are flexible, advisory groups, who can strengthen the CBD by including the voices and efforts of community members. --For example, the...
Today the San Francisco Board of Elections tallied the ballots from property owners in the Discover Polk neighborhood, and reported that we had a majority in favor of forming the CBD! The Board of Supervisors heard from supporters and one opponent, considered the election results,...
One of the benefits of a CBD is graffiti abatement. Businesses and residences can count on support of the CBD crew to remove paint, stickers, tape, etc, from their property in a timely and effective fashion, thereby avoiding costly and annoying violation notices for the owner....
Did you know that there are at least 73 Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in New York City alone, representing a budget of over $134 million and including over 85,000 businesses? In Los Angeles, there are 42 property-based BIDs, and in Philadelphia, at least 14. Washington,...
We don't have to look any further than immediately south of the Discover Polk district boundaries for evidence of effectiveness of CBD services. Lower Polk CBD has only been operational since January 2016, and has already had a significant impact. Alleys and sidewalks are cleaner, sidewalk...
The Discover Polk CBD will offer greater citizen involvement in our community. Democratic accountability is built into the bylaws of the CBD in the form of board and committee membership. We will have greater voice in City Hall to lobby for the services we need...