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BID will guide and coordinate
the maintenance and activities
in the downtown area
IN the upcoming weekend the main street area is go-
ing to be the centre to many activities. The events will
all relate to the ‘Back to School’ events, where main
street stores will have many fabulous offers. There
will be many stands on the street selling numerous
merchandises and some place will even have live music
to entertain the shopping public.
Some DJ’s that will participate in the Electric Festival
will be among those present to cheer on the crowd.
There will also be an athlete exposition and other ac-
tivities that will turn Betico Croes Street into a lively
centre. The stores will stay open till 9 o’clock at night. gether to form the BID, both the public sector and the
During the press conference Prime Minister Mike Eman
explained that this is the first event organized by the
Business Improvement District Association guided by
Mr. Stanley de Marchena.
Eman elaborated a little bit on the Business Improve-
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ment District Association (BID).
“For the last few years that we’ve been working on the
downtown renovation plan, we came up with the idea
of coming up with something similar to ATA, where
the public sector and stakeholders take care of the
tourism promotion.
We worked on a similar public private partnership
concept to provide promotion, maintenance, safety
and main street activities.
The available person that received good recommenda-
tion from MAMBO President Mrs. Audrey Lacle was
Mr. Stanley de Marchena.
He will be responsible for bringing all the parties to-
main street businesses. AIB is also involved in this.”
Eman mentioned that he hopes that this important as-
sociation will sign at the solicitor as soon as possible, area and to expand our desired activities outside the
so they can assume the management, promotion,
maintenance and main street activities responsibilities.
The BID concept is something that Minister Benny
Sevinger and American institutions have been working
on for a long time.
“MAMBO has been doing this for many years and we
thank that for all their hard work. The idea is that the
BID association will contain ATA, ATIA, AHATA, Cham-
ber of Commerce, Main Street merchants and Banks.”
Business Improvement District (BID) will become
official in a few weeks. Eman emphasized the impor-
tance of this new association which is something many
people have been long waiting for.
“For this reason we are extremely happy to have taken
this step and to have found such a qualified person to
run BID. Mr. Stanley de Marchena, is the right man to
implement what needs to be done in the main street
main street area to the entire downtown area.”
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