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City hires PUMA for near-term improvement-district analysis, preliminary recommendations due in March

2090996 · January 9, 2025
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The University Hill Improvement District analysis will produce near-term financial and governance options to guide downtown, University Hill and Boulder Junction. Consultants Progressive Urban Management Associates (PUMA) will deliver preliminary recommendations in March and present to City Council April 24.

The University Hill Community Management Commission heard a presentation Jan. 7 from Progressive Urban Management Associates, the Denver-based consultant team hired to produce an improvement-district analysis for Boulder.

City staff said the analysis will review existing conditions, planned investments and governance tools and produce near-term strategies—what staff called a “tool box”—to support commercial areas including the Hill, downtown and Boulder Junction. Reagan (city staff) said preliminary recommendations will be ready in March and the team will present to City Council at a study session on April 24.

Brad Siegel, a PUMA consultant, told commissioners the engagement will move quickly. “It’s gonna be kind of fast and furious,” he said,…

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