# Plat Street - Complete Article Index for LLMs
# https://platstreet.com/llms-full.txt
# Last updated: 2026-03-23
# Total articles: 50+

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BLOCK OPS - For District Managers
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## The District That Funded Its Own Growth — And What Happens When the Federal Partner Leaves
URL: https://platstreet.com/blockops/kc-streetcar-tdd
Section: Block Ops | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Block Ops Editorial Team | Location: Kansas City, MO
Summary: The Kansas City Streetcar TDD watched development double, collected the resulting sales tax back into its own revenue base, and built a self-reinforcing corridor finance model.
Topics: TDD, transit, federal funding, sales tax, corridor finance

## St. Louis Just Created a District That Cannot Tax Anyone. That's the Point.
URL: https://platstreet.com/blockops/stl-bb155-entertainment-district
Section: Block Ops | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Block Ops Editorial Team | Location: St. Louis, MO
Summary: Board Bill 155 establishes a new kind of downtown governance tool — state-funded, mayoral-appointed, built around event competitiveness rather than corridor maintenance.
Topics: policy, governance, entertainment district, St. Louis

## One District Got Out: St. Louis BB152 Vending Policy
URL: https://platstreet.com/blockops/stl-bb152-vending
Section: Block Ops | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Block Ops Editorial Team | Location: St. Louis, MO
Summary: The amendment record on BB152 shows exactly how district influence works — and exactly when it stops working. The Central West End used the window.
Topics: policy, legislation, vending, food trucks, St. Louis

## The Federal Office Anchor Is Leaving. Does Your District Have a Plan?
URL: https://platstreet.com/blockops/doge-federal-office
Section: Block Ops | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Block Ops Editorial Team | Location: Washington, DC
Summary: DOGE's real estate consolidation is a corridor management problem. 750+ leases terminated, 22,000 DC jobs lost, and most district managers don't know their exposure yet.
Topics: federal policy, DOGE, office vacancy, Washington DC

## Ten Years to a BID. The Coney Island Formation Story.
URL: https://platstreet.com/blockops/coney-island-bid
Section: Block Ops | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Block Ops Editorial Team | Location: Brooklyn, NY
Summary: NYC's 78th BID took a decade from first conversation to incorporation. $850K in pre-formation investment.
Topics: BID formation, New York, case study

## The Downtown SF Partnership Is Renewing Its District Ten Years Early.
URL: https://platstreet.com/blockops/sf-partnership-renewal
Section: Block Ops | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Block Ops Editorial Team | Location: San Francisco, CA
Summary: When your city cuts your grant funding by 70%, you have two choices. San Francisco's downtown district chose the harder one.
Topics: governance, renewal, San Francisco, funding

## You Can Expand Your District Boundary at Renewal.
URL: https://platstreet.com/blockops/iowa-city-boundary-expansion
Section: Block Ops | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Block Ops Editorial Team | Location: Iowa City, IA
Summary: Iowa City just did it. The property owners in the newly added territory signed on because ten years of documented performance made the case.
Topics: governance, renewal, boundary expansion

## The Chicago Loop Alliance Dropped Corridor Vacancy 14% in One Quarter.
URL: https://platstreet.com/blockops/chicago-loop-vacancy
Section: Block Ops | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Block Ops Editorial Team | Location: Chicago, IL
Summary: Weekend foot traffic hit 116% of 2019 levels while weekday lagged at 89% — that gap is a programming story, not a recovery story.
Topics: vacancy, Chicago, programming, case study

## H.R.2766 Passes House Committee 32-8
URL: https://platstreet.com/blockops/hr2766-passes-committee
Section: Block Ops | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Block Ops Editorial | Location: Washington, DC
Summary: The Special District Fairness and Accessibility Act passed with bipartisan support. The legislation would require OMB to recognize special districts as local government.
Topics: federal policy, legislation, HR2766

## How Chattanooga's Southside BID Turned a Dead Saturday Into Its Highest-Revenue Day
URL: https://platstreet.com/blockops/chattanooga-saturday
Section: Block Ops | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Kevin Torres | Location: Chattanooga, TN
Summary: We had 47 merchants, a $1.2 million assessment budget, and a corridor that emptied out by noon on Saturdays.
Topics: placemaking, case study, programming, foot traffic

## Five Technology Decisions Every District Manager Will Face in 2026
URL: https://platstreet.com/blockops/technology-decisions-2026
Section: Block Ops | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: David Kim | Location: Austin, TX
Summary: AI, cashback platforms, data infrastructure, and the questions most districts aren't asking before they commit.
Topics: technology, AI, data, cashback

## The Assessment Renewal Playbook: What Works, What Backfires
URL: https://platstreet.com/blockops/assessment-renewal
Section: Block Ops | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Amanda Yip | Location: Vancouver, BC
Summary: A synthesis of 14 renewal campaigns from the past three years, across districts of every size.
Topics: assessment, renewal, funding, strategy

## What Nashville's Gulch District Got Right About Cashback
URL: https://platstreet.com/blockops/nashville-cashback
Section: Block Ops | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: James Wright | Location: Nashville, TN
Summary: The pilot ran for 90 days, involved 31 merchants, and produced the highest same-store repeat visit data the district had ever recorded.
Topics: cashback, consumer engagement, Nashville

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FRONTAGE - For Merchants
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## San Francisco Has Been Taxing Vacant Storefronts for Four Years.
URL: https://platstreet.com/frontage/sf-vacancy-tax
Section: Frontage | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Frontage Editorial Team | Location: San Francisco, CA
Summary: The filing deadline just passed. If you're operating in one of San Francisco's 32 neighborhood commercial districts and you didn't file, you have a problem.
Topics: vacancy tax, San Francisco, policy, merchant

## Your Corridor's Vacancy Rate Is Probably Lying to You.
URL: https://platstreet.com/frontage/vacancy-rate-lying
Section: Frontage | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Frontage Editorial Team | Location: San Francisco, CA
Summary: A corridor with a 7% vacancy rate generating less economic activity than it did during a pandemic shutdown is not a corridor with a 7% problem.
Topics: vacancy, data, corridor health

## You've Been Paying Into Your BID for Six Years. Here's What You're Actually Funding.
URL: https://platstreet.com/frontage/assessment-intel-ssa44
Section: Frontage | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Frontage Editorial Team | Location: Chicago, IL
Summary: We spent three weeks with SSA 44's publicly available budget documents and mapped the assessment disbursement to the programs it funded.
Topics: assessment, budget, SSA, Chicago, transparency

## Denver LoDo Cashback Pilot: Did It Move the Needle?
URL: https://platstreet.com/frontage/denver-cashback
Section: Frontage | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Frontage Editorial | Location: Denver, CO
Summary: 62% of eligible merchants participated. We surveyed 38 of them three months later.
Topics: cashback, Denver, pilot, merchant ROI

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METES & BOUNDS - For Property Owners
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## Commercial Property Values in Washington DC Are Falling Again.
URL: https://platstreet.com/metesandbounds/dc-assessment
Section: Metes & Bounds | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Metes & Bounds Editorial Team | Location: Washington, DC
Summary: The assessment decline is real, the DOGE amplification is real, and the appeal window for TY2026 has already closed.
Topics: assessment, Washington DC, property tax, DOGE

## When the Largest Taxpayer in Town Goes to Auction
URL: https://platstreet.com/metesandbounds/palisades-center-foreclosure
Section: Metes & Bounds | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Metes & Bounds Editorial Team | Location: West Nyack, NY
Summary: The K-shaped mall recovery is not a real estate investor story. It is a property tax story, an assessment base story, and a certiorari warning.
Topics: foreclosure, mall, property tax, assessment

## The Lease Clause That's Quietly Exposing Your Building to Assessment Risk
URL: https://platstreet.com/metesandbounds/lease-clause
Section: Metes & Bounds | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Metes & Bounds Editorial Team
Summary: Inside most commercial leases for properties in special tax districts, there is a clause that passes the district's mandatory assessment obligation to your tenant.
Topics: lease, assessment, property, risk, pass-through

## Three Warning Signs a Corridor Is Two Years From Decline
URL: https://platstreet.com/metesandbounds/corridor-signal
Section: Metes & Bounds | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Metes & Bounds Editorial
Summary: Programming mix, tenant category drift, and board composition tell you what lease rates won't — if you know what to look for.
Topics: corridor, decline, vacancy, warning signs

## Did the District Deliver? Austin's South Congress BID, Five Years Later
URL: https://platstreet.com/metesandbounds/south-congress
Section: Metes & Bounds | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Metes & Bounds Research | Location: Austin, TX
Summary: A corridor-level analysis of what $4.2 million in BID capital investment actually bought in measurable property value impact.
Topics: parcel report, Austin, capital investment, property value

## The Short North DDA Renewal Vote Is in Eight Weeks.
URL: https://platstreet.com/metesandbounds/short-north-renewal
Section: Metes & Bounds | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Metes & Bounds Editorial | Location: Columbus, OH
Summary: A governance breakdown of what the renewal covers, what's changed in the proposed rate structure, and what the property-weighted vote means.
Topics: renewal, governance, voting, Columbus

## Reading a District Budget Like an Asset Manager
URL: https://platstreet.com/metesandbounds/budget-asset-manager
Section: Metes & Bounds | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Metes & Bounds Editorial
Summary: Most property owners look at a district budget the way a taxpayer does — looking for waste. Asset managers look at it differently.
Topics: budget, asset management, property value, analysis

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CORRIDOR CAPITAL - For Sponsors & Employers
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## The Fastest-Recovering Corridor in Manhattan Just Got a Rezoning.
URL: https://platstreet.com/corridorcapital/42below
Section: Corridor Capital | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Corridor Capital Editorial Team | Location: New York, NY
Summary: 42BELOW vacancy down 19% in two years. 9,500 new households coming via MSMX rezoning. Five BIDs to navigate.
Topics: corridor intel, New York, Manhattan, rezoning, sponsor

## The Due Diligence Framework for District Selection Nobody Taught You
URL: https://platstreet.com/corridorcapital/district-selection
Section: Corridor Capital | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Corridor Capital Editorial Team
Summary: Vacancy trajectory tells you more about a corridor's next two years than any foot traffic count.
Topics: district selection, due diligence, vacancy, governance

## Why Your District Activation Has No ROI Story — And How to Fix It
URL: https://platstreet.com/corridorcapital/measurement-problem
Section: Corridor Capital | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Corridor Capital Editorial Team
Summary: Logo placement on a banner has no ROI story. Event attendance counts are self-reported and almost never connected to brand outcomes.
Topics: measurement, ROI, engagement, data, analytics

## The Employer Corridor Playbook: What HR Teams Need to Know
URL: https://platstreet.com/corridorcapital/employer-programs
Section: Corridor Capital | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Corridor Capital Research
Summary: Large employers offering employees cashback for shopping near offices or homes are navigating a new category with no established best practice.
Topics: employer, HR, benefits, workplace, corridor

## Cashback vs. Event Sponsorship: A Head-to-Head ROI Comparison
URL: https://platstreet.com/corridorcapital/cashback-comparison
Section: Corridor Capital | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Corridor Capital Research
Summary: We matched 47 campaigns by district type, budget tier, and brand category. The results split clearly.
Topics: cashback, event sponsorship, ROI, comparison

## The CRA Compliance Playbook for Regional Banks
URL: https://platstreet.com/corridorcapital/cra-playbook
Section: Corridor Capital | Vol. 1 No. 1 | March 2026
Author: Corridor Capital Editorial
Summary: District corridor investment satisfies CRA obligations, builds community presence, and generates measurable marketing ROI.
Topics: CRA, banking, compliance, community investment

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