Updated June 1st, 2010

• New City America has been awarded a contract to work with the City of La Puente, California to work with the City Manager and City staff to come up with a organizational and budget restructuring plan. The goal of this contract, the first of its kind, is to ensure that revenues equal expenses in the coming years and ensure the maximization of services to citizens based upon historically declining revenue flows.



• The Little Italy Association, the district management corporation which has been administered by New City America since 1997, was awarded the “Smart Growth Community of the Decade”, by the San Diego/Tijuana Chapter of the Urban Land Institute. This award by the ULI demonstrates the knowledge that New City America has in innovative Community Benefit District (BID) management techniques;



• The Little Italy Association, and Marco Li Mandri, have been awarded the San Diego Chapter’s American Planning Association’s award for “Community Development”. Marco led a tour of over 30 APA Chapter members throughout Little Italy on May 20th, prior to being given the award at its annual meeting.



• New City America was awarded a contract to renew a Business Improvement District in Berkeley California’s “Gourmet Ghetto” along North Shattuck Avenue;



• New City America was awarded a contract to work with the Greater Phoenix Convention and Visitor’s Bureau to investigate the formation of a new Greater Phoenix Tourism Improvement District;



• The Urban Land Institute featured Marco Li Mandri and New City America in a four page article on “Special Benefit Districts” in is January 2010 issue;



• New City America formed its 55th Community Benefit District,(PBID), this time in Downtown Tracy California. Property owners voted by a margin of almost 8 to 1 to support the creation of this new Downtown special benefits district to bring life and dynamic energy back to this historic Downtown. Tracy is approximately 55 miles east of Oakland California and represents a significant and growing city of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. New City has been awarded a new contract to consult and form the new Tracy District Management Corporation through June 2010.



• New City America has been awarded a contract to investigation the feasibility of creating a new Downtown Property Business Improvement District in Downtown El Centro. NCA has worked on and off in this significant city in the Imperial Valley for the past 10 years. El Centro is the cultural and government center for the entire Imperial County which lies adjacent to the huge manufacturing city of Mexicali in Baja California.



• New City America East has been awarded a contract to investigate the establishment of a new Community Benefit District in Downtown Easton, Pennsylvania. Working in conjunction with Donna Taggart of Taggart and Associates, New City America East will kick off the investigation of the new Easton CBD in mid November at a public forum. This is the third contract received by New City America East in the state of Pennsylvania.



• Marco Li Mandri, President of New City America, was the moderator of a special panel entitled “Managing Destination Management Organizations in a Time of Fiscal Crisis” at the National Conference for the Destination Management International Association on July 29th, in Atlanta Georgia. Members of the panel included Dan Fenton from Team San Jose, Dan Goldes from the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau and Ken Fischange from the Sonoma County Visitors Bureau. Over 200 DMAI members attended this workshop.



• New City America has had its 54th Business Improvement District established, this time in Chula Vista California. On February 17th, 2009, the Chula Vista Auto Dealers of the Auto Row BID voted unanimously to approve this new BID and the district was adopted unanimously by the Chula Vista City Council.



• New City America has been awarded a contract to establish a new Orange County Tourism Improvement District. New City America was hired by the Orange County Visitors and Convention Bureau after the group saw the results of the success of New City America’s work in the formation of the San Francisco Tourism Improvement District.



• New City America has been awarded a contract to renew the Historic Chinatown Business Improvement District in Los Angeles California. The district has reached its 10 year anniversary and is now up for renewal.