After fostering more than $6 billion in development in metro Atlanta, the question of “what’s next” for the region’s community improvement districts is one subject of a new evaluation of CIDs that was released as their funding faces an uncertain future.
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Planned Chamblee Doraville CID to create sense of place, urgency for improvements
By Guest Columnist DAN REUTER, a longtime advisor on urban planning and community development in metro Atlanta and the founder/CEO of Reuter Strategy
Momentum is building for the creation of a new Community Improvement District in the cities of Chamblee and Doraville. Led by local commercial property owners and encouraged by the leadership of the cities of Chamblee and Doraville, a CID will help the community to leverage the existing assets to provide greater access and amenities.
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GSU report outlines wide autonomy, authority in popular tool to fund urban renewal
A new report by researchers at Georgia State University piques interest about future funding for big civic projects ranging from the Atlanta Streetcar to SunTrust Park, in addition to smaller projects such as a worn retail district in Buckhead that seems largely unchanged for 50 years.
