Mpls Downtown Improvement District

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We had an incredible year in downtown Minneapolis! As our city’s core continues to thrive, so too does the work that the Mpls Downtown Improvement District is doing to provide a greener, cleaner, safer and vibrant community.

As we look back on 2017, we see a lot of great progress at work. We celebrated the “Substantially Spectacular” completion of Nicollet in November, bringing to an end a project that is already paying dividends for our community as a gathering place for those who live, work, play and explore in our city. We also experienced new ways to program Nicollet as several pilot projects informed us of ways we can best keep this vital corridor full of activity in the years to come.

But that’s just the beginning. The DID Livability Team continued to grow, and DID’s new incident management system helped us accurately track outreach trends. We engaged a residential task force, as part of our strategic plan, to help better connect with those living in the District’s boundaries. Our DID Ambassadors continued to not only assist the public and provide greening and cleaning services, but they also were part of enhanced safety initiatives like the rush hour-based Commuter Block Post on Hennepin Avenue. And DID also worked to better communicate with our stakeholders—not only through launching a quarterly newsletter but also undergoing a branding exercise to better highlight the DID and Vibrant and Safe Downtown—formerly Minneapolis SafeZone Collaborative—to help with our mission.

But there is more work to be done. In 2018, we look forward to our role on the new Nicollet—which includes Ambassadors’ green, clean and safe initiatives, our DID Livability Team’s presence, overseeing lighting and adding new programming and activations. We will continue to work with our law enforcement, public officials and downtown businesses to enhance safety in our city’s core and help people feel safer in our community. And with future construction projects like Hennepin Avenue coming in the next few years, we’ll be at the table discussing how these projects can be executed well and leave us with incredible public realm space along these corridors.

We are excited about the continued work done over the past year and what lies ahead in 2018.  We appreciate your continued efforts and commitments in creating an extraordinary downtown.