According to the story:
Detroit is looking to Washington for inspiration in creating a Business
Improvement District in the city, in which downtown businesses would be
taxed to raise money for street cleaning, landscaping and other
downtown improvements.
Rich Bradley, CEO of the Washington Downtown Partnership, told
executives at the Downtown Detroit Partnership’s meeting that
Washington’s Business Improvement District, created in 1998, has
brought retail and residential development.
Downtown Washington uses captured taxes to pay for security, longer bus
hours and clean up. He says Detroit is prime for similar improvements
because it has added “many more places of quality,” including
businesses and residential developments, since he last visited more
than 10 years ago.
No formal plans have been made to attempt a BID in Detroit, but it is on the DDP’s radar.
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