• Created one of the nation’s largest wireless internet zones, the Downtown Denver WiFi Zone, along the 16th Street Mall and in Skyline Park. (Visit www.downtowndenverwifi.com for more information).
• Launched the LiveDowntownDenver housing campaign, and www.livedowntowndenver.com website, which will serve as the “one stop shop” for all Downtown housing information for both brokers and buyers.
• Partnered with the City to kick-off the 2007 Downtown Area Plan, and launch of its website www.downtowndenverplan.org. Generated significant interest in public events and interactive surveys, as well as broad media interest.
• Created Businesses Unified for Denver Schools (BUDS) to encourage and support the continued involvement of the Downtown business community toward achieving excellence in the Denver Public School system.
• Educated membership, and raised funds in favor of Referendum C&D and the Tourism 1A Tax ballot initiatives.
• Launched an improved www.downtowndenver.com website with enhanced features and which is more easily navigated.
• Marketed and sold more than $65,000 in parking meter cash keys.
• Collaborated with the Partnership’s commercial real estate community, Partnership staff assisted in leasing more than 600,000 square feet of Downtown offices space, retaining and adding more than 2,700 jobs.
• Attracted more than 1,000,000 people to Downtown Denver by producing high quality public events such as a Taste of Colorado, 9News Parade of Lights presented by Bank of the West and Southwest Airlines, and the Downtown Denver Mile High Holidays program featuring New Year’s Eve fireworks.
• Helped reduce the number of single occupant vehicles used by center city residents by initiating the two year long, federally funded, Drive Less Denver program.
• Supported comprehensive strategies to reduce panhandling, loitering and homelessness in the BID, including the following:
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Conducted a joint City-BID poll of Denver residents revealing that Denverites give almost $4.6 million annually to panhandlers.
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Advocated for the City Council enactment of a new ordinance restricting sitting and lying on sidewalks in the BID area.
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Supported Denver’s 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness, which will redirect and expand City efforts to reduce homelessness, especially the chronic homeless that frequent Downtown.
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Launched Please Help. Don’t Give campaign, education public on issues of panhandling and directing them to the www.GiveABetterWay.org.
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