The Metropolitan Improvement District (MID) is a non-profit service organization that strives to make Downtown clean, safe, and inviting. The MID achieves this by providing cleaning and safety/hospitality services, as well as destination marketing, research, business recruitment, market analysis, and transportation solutions for Downtown Seattle.
MID HISTORY
Founded by the Downtown Seattle Association in 1999, the MID is financed through tax assessments on Downtown properties and covers a 225 square block area in Downtown Seattle’s core.
Each day, the MID’s 62 Downtown Ambassadors patrol the streets of the Denny Triangle, Pioneer Square, Retail Core, Waterfront, West Edge, and, starting in 2014, Belltown neighborhoods in order to maintain Seattle’s healthy, vibrant urban core.
The MID comes to Belltown on July 1, 2013.