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Downtown Denver Experience Survey:
What's Next for Downtown's Improvement Districts?

Please take a few minutes to complete this survey and help guide the future of Downtown!

Over the past year, Downtown businesses, residents, and property owners have been engaged in discussions about Downtown’s urgent needs and the actions that will ensure its future as a vibrant, thriving place. These conversations were initiated by the Downtown Denver Business Improvement District (BID) as part of its 2026 strategic planning process. From the Strategic Plan come two big ideas:
  1. A significant restructuring of the BID (which includes all Downtown commercial properties) focusing on robust expansion of safety, cleaning, and beautification services throughout Downtown
  2. The creation of a sister organization—a resident-led General Improvement District (GID)—that would elevate resident priorities and amplify collective impact with the BID on shared concerns
This survey is designed to gather input from across the Downtown community on top priorities for Downtown, the most impactful services the BID and potential GID could deliver, and overall interest in pursuing BID reorganization and/or GID formation.
What is the Downtown Denver BID? Since 1992, the Downtown Denver BID has provided supplemental safety, cleaning, and maintenance services, organized events, and supported economic development Downtown. The BID is funded by a special assessment on commercial property within its boundaries and is governed by a board of commercial property owners and tenants. Per state law, the BID does not include residential property.

What is a General Improvement District? Another type of special district that, like a BID, is formed, governed, and funded by property owners and tenants within its boundaries. Unlike a BID, a GID can include residential property. GIDs often have a narrower scope than BIDs, generally focusing on the fundamentals of safety, cleaning, and beautification. Important: the services of BIDs and GIDs are supplemental to and do not replace City services.