BOERUM HILL — The Atlantic Avenue Business Improvement District (BID) held its annual meeting Friday afternoon at Someday Bar, located at 364 Atlantic Ave., where BID staff and board members discussed the group’s accomplishments of this past year.
The BID helps to promote and catalyze the growth of more than 300 small businesses along a 1.2-mile stretch in the neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, and Boerum Hill.
Its main prongs are beautification, sanitation, marketing, and advocacy, according to the executive director of the Atlantic Avenue BID, Kelly Carroll.
Kate Gilman, chair of the Atlantic Avenue BID, explained, “While we do have a relatively small team, we are incredibly hard-working and have a very active board.”
Gilman also spoke to the diversity of Atlantic Avenue, “the businesses, the people: that’s something we are very proud of.”
Carroll pointed out that some of the Atlantic Avenue BID’s major accomplishments from a monetary perspective thus far include investing $175,000 directly into the Avenue’s streets and businesses and putting $125,000 into preserving and planting trees.
In addition, the BID received $75,000 in funding from the NYC Department of Small Business Services.
“Our ‘Monthly Merchant Spotlight’ feature that we started at the beginning of the year is also doing very well,” Carroll noted. “Basically, we interview business owners, take pictures of them and their shops, and do write-ups on them, ultimately getting people to stop into their business.”
A new, official website has also been launched, which Carroll said she is very proud of.
“It’s very informative and quite easy to navigate,” she said.
Carroll, who has been the executive…
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