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Updated July 30th, 2008
- On July 29th 2008, New City America successfully established
its 50th BID/Community Benefit District,
this time in the Yerba Buena Neighborhood of the City of San Francisco.
With the adoption of this new CBD, the largest CBD to date, generating
2.4 million per year, has been created in the City of San Francisco.
This CBD is the 8th district formed by New City America, since 2005,
in the City of San Francisco. With this district established, New City
America has formed 18 districts alone in the Bay Area, and is under
contract to establish at least six more districts in the coming year.
- On July 29th 2008, New City America successfully established
its 49th BID/Community Benefit District,
as a renewal and expansion district for the Chinatown BID in the City
of Los Angeles. By almost a 2/3 margin, the property owners in the existing
and expansion area voted to create a new, larger Chinatown BID. The
LA Chinatown remains the only Chinese American BID in the country. New
City America has established 14 of the 33 BIDs/CBDs in the City of Los
Angeles, more than any other consultant group.
- On July 29th 2008, New City America successfully established
its 48th BID/Community Benefit District,
this time in the historic commercial district of Lincoln Heights in
Los Angeles. Property owners voted by a margin of almost two to one
to establish this new special benefit district. Through the adoption
of this district, New City America has established 14 of the 33 BIDs/CBDs
in the City of Los Angeles, more than any other consultant group.
- On July 15th, 2008, New City America successfully established
its 47th BID/Community Benefit District,
this time in Downtown Oakland California. Downtown Oakland is a classic
example of a City Center on the brink of revival. Property owners voted
by a weighted margin of 77% to support district formation. This is the
9th district formed by New City America, in the City of Oakland. New
City America has established every BID and CBD in Oakland since 1999.
- On July 15th, 2008, New City America successfully established
its 46th BID/Community Benefit District,
this time in the Lake Merritt/Uptown District of Oakland California.
Lake Merritt is a tremendously beautiful area that has tremendous underutilized
assets. The property owners voted by a weighted margin of 85% to support
district formation. This is the 8th district New City America has formed
in the City of Oakland;
- New City America has been awarded to investigate and possibly establish a Business Improvement District in Downtown Tracy, in California.
- New City America has been awarded a contract to investigate and form a new Community Benefit District for Downtown San Francisco. As a joint effort being promoted by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and BOMA/San Francisco, New City America was awarded the contract after review of other top consulting firms in the field. The Downtown San Francisco CBD will be the largest of all of the CBDs in the City and will take this great Downtown area to the next level as a wonderful place in which to work, visit, conduct business as well as live.
- New City America has been awarded a contract to begin preliminary steps in the investigation of a new Los Angeles Garment District Business Improvement District. The Garment District property owners, formerly part of the Downtown Fashion District BID, will determine their strategy and time line for BID formation by the end of August.
- New City America President Marco Li Mandri was the featured speaker at the Annual Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce dinner held on May 15th at the historic Bethlehem Hotel in Downtown Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Before a crowd of over 250 guests, Li Mandri spoke about how business districts from Little Italy in San Diego to Downtown Bethlehem are, and could be reinvented with community leadership and new Community Benefit Districts.
- New City America has been awarded a contract by the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau to investigate and establish a new San Francisco "Tourism Investment District". This new "TID" would create a new type of assessment district, paid for by visitors to the City, which would fund the operations and promotional work of the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau. Once this model has been established, in which many sectors of the visitors industry will benefit, this model may be used nationwide in other major cities including New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC and Los Angeles.
- New City America Principal Laura Li Mandri wrote a proposal to designate San Diego's Little Italy as a new "Preserve America" community. The "Preserve America" designation is an initiative by First Lady Laura Bush and allows designated communities to become pre-qualified for a series of Federal Grants. Laura Li Mandri's grant application was approved by the Federal Interior Department and Little Italy was given this status - the first community so designated in Southern California.
- New City America has been awarded a contract to form the Willow Glen Community Benefit District in San Jose California. San Jose is the 10th largest city in the US today and Willow Glen is one of its premier business districts. Marco Li Mandri, President of New City America is working closely with Mayor Chuck Reed's staff and Councilman Pierluigi Oliviero in crafting a new program for multiple Community Benefit Districts in the City;
- New City America had its 45th
Community Benefit District/Business Improvement District adopted
in the South Park Community of Downtown Los Angeles. By a margin of
almost 9 to 1, South Park property owners, including the AEG who operates
the Staples Center, the LA Convention Center, the Nokia Center and LA
Live, along with hundreds of other residents, hotels and medical facilities,
voted to approve this new CBD on August 15th, 2007. This is the first
of many new CBDs in the City of Los Angeles and NCA was honored to have
established the first one of these higher forms of assessment districts.
- New City America has been awarded a contract to advise the Wheatridge 2020 Group on neighborhood revitalization strategies. Wheatridge is a city just outside of Denver Colorado.
- New City America has entered into a business alliance with Donna and Glenn Taggart of Taggart and Associates establishing New City America East. NCA East is based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and seeks to establish Community Benefit Districts, Business Improvement Districts and Neighborhood Improvement Districts throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland.
- New City America has established its 44th
Community Benefit District/Business Improvement District, this
time the first Korean-American Community Benefit District/Business Improvement
District in North America. Korean-American and other property owners
in the Koreatown/Northgate district of Oakland, California voted overwhelmingly
to establish this new Community Benefit District. This represents the
seventh district formed in Oakland by New City America. Since 1999,
New City America has formed all seven districts currently functioning
in Oakland.
- New City America has been awarded a contract to establish a new "Broadway Entertainment Corridor Community Benefit District" in San Francisco. This historic area, home to one of the most vibrant entertainment district in San Francisco is schedule to be approved by July 2008". New City America has established all seven Community Benefit Districts successfully functioning in San Francisco, California.
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