Remove Helping Homeless Through Business Improvement Districts
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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Special levels of service demands for business districts and park s. LOS as a term isn't used that often at the micro scale in discussions about "parks conservancies" and business improvement districts, even though providing a LOS higher than a city can typically afford is exactly why such organizations have been created. --and

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Times Square Alliance Streetwatch program for reporting problems in the public space

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A recent upload in my photo feed was from last fall, and showed a public art campaign posted on a trash can in Times Square, where the public spaces are managed by the Times Square Alliance business improvement district. It also provides a way to reach back to the reporter, still anonymously, through a chat function.

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Enabling public-private collaborations to innovate on behalf of those facing food insecurity

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2022, the Biden Administration released a strategy to address hunger, nutrition, and health—but the federal government cannot make these transformative changes alone. Accelerating this work requires action and collaboration from state and local governments, the private sector, and more.