Formed in March 2004, the Palo Alto Downtown Business & Professional
Association (PAD) is a member-funded organization which administers
the Palo Alto downtown Business Improvement District (BID)
and promotes the business community through events, marketing,
beautification, and advocacy programs.
Through annual assessments, business owners in the BID help
fund enhanced downtown maintenance; promotional events to
attract customers to the downtown district; directional signage;
and a Web site, which includes a downtown business directory.
PAD also advocates for BID business interests as they relate
to the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, city government, neighborhood
organizations, etc. There are approximately 763 businesses
in the BID, whose boundaries extend from El Camino Real to
Webster Street and from Lytton Avenue to Forest Avenue. The
BID also includes the area circumscribed by Forest Avenue,
Ramona Street, Addison Avenue, and Alma Street. To view a
map of the BID, please click
here.
The Palo Alto Downtown Business & Professional Association
(PAD) created the Downtown Streets Team (DST) to give unhoused
men and women the chance to achieve lives of independence
while helping to make downtown Palo Alto clean and safe. The
DST program responds to the downtown Palo Alto business
community’s concerns about panhandling and street
cleanliness while giving members of the unhoused community
the opportunity to transition into the workforce. The
first program of its kind on the West Coast, DST is a model
for what business and unhoused communities can accomplish
when they work together.
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