The added tax and services would address a 'donut hole' in services in between Lower Downtown and RiNo, according to proponents.
The added tax and services would address a"donut hole" in services in between Lower Downtown and RiNo, according to proponents.
"Ballpark is the last remaining commercial, mixed-use area in the urban core that does not have some sort of additional special district funding to support it," Giellis, who's now consulting for the Ballpark neighborhood, told councilmembers on Wednesday."They've been considered the 'donut hole of services.' RiNo pretty much stops at Broadway. Downtown services stop at 20th . The other mix of railroad tracks and highways and roadways cuts them off as well." .
The first year in tax collections is expected to generate $1.3 million for the Ballpark GID, according to the proposal. Proposed services for business in the area include landscaping and vibrant signage, but councilmembers wanted to know the most was how homelessness would be addressed in the area. , an organization out of Kentucky that uses a"de-escalation and navigation model" when working with homeless individuals. Block by Block would hire local staff as"community ambassadors" and train them to move homeless residents by telling them about the housing and jobs programs they need, she said.
Banking on using all projected revenue, the Ballpark GID's first-year budget proposal includes $750,000 for security, homeless navigation and community ambassadors, $300,000 for landscaping, cleaning and infrastructure projects and a one-time $85,000 cost to organize the GID. , which moved more than a 1,000 people off the streets and into temporary housing in six months via sweeps. Through, the administration moved more than 200 people out of an encampment that wrapped around the U.
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