Critical Perspectives on Local Governance: The Formation of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in Low-Income Immigrant Neighborhoods of Los Angeles
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English
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2014.
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successful BID formation, including invested and persistent community stakeholders, partnerships with non- and quasi-governmental organizations, sound foundation of residents’ activism, and efforts to embrace multi-ethnic groups in the neighborhood. The findings of this study offer insights for understanding the kind of struggle that low-income immigrant neighborhoods usually experience in BID formation, for broadening the current theoretical and empirical understandings of multicultural community organizing, and for guiding a more equitable distribution of public services and resources for the areas with inconclusive or ineffective efforts for BID formation.
economic and community development tool. This research presents a comparative examination of two commercial districts in Los Angeles—MacArthur Park and the Byzantine Latino Quarter (BLQ)—that share similar demographic characteristics but have yielded different BID formation outcomes. This research involved collecting archival data, observations, and in-depth interviews during a year-long field research in Los Angeles. Major groups of interviewees include property owners, community organization staff, city employees, and private consultants involved in the BID formation process. The comparison of the two neighborhoods revealed common challenges for BID formation that are related to a high percentage of absentee property owners, spatial tensions and information gaps among multiethnic groups, and low human and financial capital. Despite these challenges, the BLQ displayed distinguishable factors that may have contributed to
Business improvement districts (BIDs) are local organizations funded by private businesses that have been revitalizing commercial areas for the last two decades in the United States. While local governments are cutting back on the delivery of services, local stakeholders such as property owners and business owners are assuming new roles by providing private services aimed at improving commercial landscapes. The emergence of BIDs represents the growing importance of sublocal governing structures for local development and revitalization. However, not every commercial district succeeds in establishing BIDs despite their interest and need. This research aims to understand why certain neighborhoods fail to form BIDs and what factors could facilitate successful formation of BIDs in the context of low-income multiethnic neighborhoods in which BIDs can function as an effective
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