Ridgewood's Special Improvement District has installed new leadership with an explicitly stated economic development mandate. The kind of small-market leadership transition that almost never gets trade press coverage, even though the institutional-memory risk Plat Street flagged in Issue 1 applies most acutely at exactly this scale, where a district often has a single full-time staffer.

Source: TAPinto Ridgewood, June–July 2026

Duplicate check: Connects to Issue 1's institutional-memory piece.