But DBA directors said the group’s ongoing billing problems and low membership is leading them to consider stronger ways to organize the downtown merchants.
The business group is considering forming a Business Improvement District, a formal city-sponsored assessment district that would levy a fee on all merchants to promote wider commercial activity. In some ways, an improvement district would be the same as the DBA, except that membership would be mandatory.
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“I wanted this to be a wakeup call,” he said. “I can’t care less who runs this. I just want to see some mechanism to improve business in town,”
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