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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because your business district has been dying for over 5 years?[/quote] OP here - yes I think it would be great to bring more business here, but there is a lot of research on BIDs and how they are a giveaway to the wealthy. What I love about downtown SS is not the chains but the small Ethiopian, Colombian, Haitian, etc businesses that have been a lifeline to us during the pandemic. I understand they will not be represented and that's a real problem for me.[/quote] How is it a giveaway to the wealthy? It is a self-taxing mechanism to collectively market the area and take care of other tasks that the County should be, but isn't doing. Where do the wealthy benefit?[/quote]
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