Plat Street · Vol. 1 · No. 6
August 2026 Issue
Block Ops
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Downtown SF Passed 10–0 and More Than Doubled Its Budget. The Hard Part Starts Now.
Downtown SF Passed 10–0 and More Than Doubled Its Budget.
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The World Cup Corridor Test, Part Two: Kansas City Is the Case Study
The World Cup Corridor Test, Part Two: Kansas City Is the Case Study
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BO·1·6·3
The ARPA Clock: 138 Days
The ARPA Clock: 138 Days
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BO·1·6·4
Coral Gables Asked 300 Property Owners Whether They Wanted a District. They Said No.
Coral Gables Asked 300 Property Owners Whether They Wanted a District.
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BO·1·6·5
Chicago Now Runs Two District Instruments. Both Feasibility Filings Are Due November 1.
Chicago Now Runs Two District Instruments.
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BO·1·6·6
Columbia's Vista Got Its District. Plat Street Called It a Formation That Failed.
Columbia's Vista Got Its District. Plat Street Called It a Formation That Failed.
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Traverse City Makes Two-Way Streets Permanent, 4–3, at the Same Meeting It Sent TIF to the Ballot
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Asheville: Check Whether Your MSD Is Accruing Sales Tax Nobody Budgeted
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Boyle Heights Industrial Flats: The Committee Stage
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Honolulu's Downtown Improvement District Is Operating. The First Budget Is the Test.
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Saint Paul Put Ambassadors Inside the Transit Stations. That Is the Replicable Part.
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Ann Arbor's New DDA Plan Runs to 2055. The County Opted Out of the Old One.
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Cincinnati's Downtown SID Renews for the Eighth Time
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West Reading's BID Term Started July 1. Eighteen Years After the Last One Lapsed.
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Lenexa Approves a CID to Renovate an Aging Hy-Vee Center, 6–2
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Wichita Approves a CID for Two Buildings on East Douglas, 6–1
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Hutchinson Carves Residential Units Out of a CID Sales Tax After the Fact
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Springfield's North Glenstone CID: The Sales Tax Still Needs a Vote
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Nashville: The Gulch Merger Is Closing Inside the Entity That Just Survived a Budget Fight
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Columbus: The Fall Petition Window Is the Whole Year
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Right of Way
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RW·1·6·1
August 28 Is the Effective Date. It Is Not the Start Date. Missouri's Innovation Zone Math.
August 28 Is the Effective Date. It Is Not the Start Date.
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Traverse City's Ballot Fight Was About a Growth-Rate Assumption. Every District Should Read the Transcript.
Traverse City's Ballot Fight Was About a Growth-Rate Assumption.
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Goldwater v. Santa Barbara County: The First Amendment Claim Gets the Headlines. The Takings Claim Is the One to Read.
Goldwater v. Santa Barbara County: The First Amendment Claim Gets the Headlines.
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Rockford Approved a 1,000-Acre Industrial TIF and Spent the Meeting Insisting It Is Not a Data Center TIF
Rockford Approved a 1,000-Acre Industrial TIF and Spent the Meeting Insisting It Is Not a Data Center TIF
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RW·1·6·5
Evanston Is Considering Ending TIF Districts Early. The Review Itself Is the Model.
Evanston Is Considering Ending TIF Districts Early.
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Central, South Carolina Passed a TIF Overlay. The County and the School District Both Declined to Participate.
Central, South Carolina Passed a TIF Overlay.
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Four Cities, One Question: Who Gets to Approve a Tax Increment District?
Four Cities, One Question: Who Gets to Approve a Tax Increment District?
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Norman: The Authority Question Failed for Lack of a Second
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Huntsville Takes a Final Vote on Its Downtown TIF
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Hancock County, Indiana: TIF Additions and an Operating Contract on the Same Agenda
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Columbia Council Adopts the Vista BID Assessment
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North Carolina HB 1089: The Levy-Cap Amendment Is on the November Ballot
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Escambia County: A Countywide Taxing Entity Exempted From TIF Contributions
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Manchester, NH: A Conditional TIF Approval as the Project Shrinks
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Omaha: Neighbors Challenge TIF Development Projects
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Wichita Falls: What the $2.4 Million Bought
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Formation-Stage Roundup: Sturgis, Chelan County, and What Happened to South Rockford
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Missouri: The First Innovation Zone Filing Is the One That Sets the Standard
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Corridor Capital
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The Full Receipts: 6.3 Percent Across Host Cities, and the Distribution Problem Underneath It
The Full Receipts: 6.3 Percent Across Host Cities, and the Distribution Problem Underneath It
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The Most Durable Form of Corridor Capital Right Now Is a Sponsor-Funded Grant Program
The Most Durable Form of Corridor Capital Right Now Is a Sponsor-Funded Grant Program
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Visa's Canadian Numbers Are Real. Read the Word "Matchday" Before You Cite Them.
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Houston's Green Corridor: The Permanence Test Is Running and Nobody Has Published a Result
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Savannah's $1.35 Million: Is Phase 1 Actually Under Contract?
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Granville Street: Did the District Keep the Closure?
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Frontage
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FR·1·6·1
What the World Cup Cost Kansas City Merchants, and What to Do Before the Next One
What the World Cup Cost Kansas City Merchants, and What to Do Before the Next One
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FR·1·6·2
The Pharmacy Box Problem Just Got Smaller. Here Is What That Changes and What It Does Not.
The Pharmacy Box Problem Just Got Smaller.
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Baltimore, Month Two: Pull the VBN List Against Your Parcel Map
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Massachusetts Just Restructured Its Vacant Storefront Credit. Districts Have to Compete for It Now.
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San Francisco's Vacancy Tax, Five Years On: North Beach Halved Its Vacancy Rate
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New York's Commercial Vacancy Tax Bills Are Still Sitting in Committee
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Boyle Heights: The Opposition Petition Is the Merchant Story Too
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Portland's Vacancy Tax Study Is Still the Thing to Watch in the Northwest
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Metes & Bounds
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MB·1·6·1
Baltimore's Next Move Is a Split-Rate Land Tax. Owners Should Pull Their Allocation First.
Baltimore's Next Move Is a Split-Rate Land Tax.
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The Fall Appeal Calendar: Where the Windows Close Between August and December
The Fall Appeal Calendar: Where the Windows Close Between August and December
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Before Baltimore Debates a Land Tax, Pull Your Allocation
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Lackawanna County's First Reassessment in Six Decades Certifies November 14
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Allegheny County Moved Its Appeal Deadline to October 1
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The Backfill Held: National Shopping Center Vacancy Near Cyclical Lows
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San Francisco's November Ballot Carries Two Measures Property Owners Need to Model
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North Carolina SB 889: Nine Counties, and Nobody Has Published Which Nine
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