Saddle Creek Merchants United is fighting an unaccountable Business Improvement District run by an outside developer, and a $110 million luxury apartment proposal that would demolish seven businesses using $21 million in public subsidies with no community input.
When merchants and residents stand together, we speak with one voice, and that voice is harder to ignore.
We are the independent businesses of Saddle Creek, many family-owned for generations. We are required to fund the N. Saddle Creek BID through mandatory assessments and have seen nothing in return except disruption, closed streets, and zero transparency.
A community group standing in solidarity. Grammercy Park Collective supports this effort because neighbors had no other avenue to oppose decisions being made without them.
Two separate developers. Two separate projects. One community caught in the middle, being taxed for its own displacement.
An unaccountable Business Improvement District run by a developer from Bennington. Local businesses pay mandatory assessments with no transparency, no community voice, and no accountability.
Developer Mitch Hohlen is seeking $21 million in public subsidies (TIF + EEA) to demolish seven businesses at Saddle Creek Plaza for luxury apartments. No affordable housing. Final hearing June 2.
Both projects use public tax incentives to subsidize development that destroys what already exists here. The community bears the cost. The developers capture the gain. This is not development. It is extraction.
Email every council member and the mayor. Sign the petition. Show up on May 21 and June 2. This affects all of us.