A renewed push to form a downtown San Bernardino Property and Business Improvement District is moving toward City Hall, where one data point could shape the future of the effort: the city itself would be the proposed district’s largest payer and most influential vote.
A downtown property ownership spreadsheet reviewed by Inland Empire Community News shows the city of San Bernardino owns 79 parcels within the proposed district, with a listed assessment of $77,566.85. That represents about 25.7% of the proposed assessment total across 592 parcels, making the city the largest single property owner in the district by assessment weight.
The next largest listed property owners are Southern California Gas Co., with a proposed assessment of $25,424.26; the county of San Bernardino, with $23,188.92; the Inland Empire 66ers Baseball Club, with $17,772.48; and the state of California, with $8,360.61…