The Bainbridge Island Downtown Association is committed to our mission of building community through a vibrant downtown. Our downtown maintains a small-town feel and represents a quality place to shop, work, walk, invest in, and live. Our downtown is the heart of our Island.
Walk on or drive aboard a Washington State Ferry from Seattle for the half-hour cruise to beautiful Bainbridge Island. Once on shore, use our popular Walkabout Guide to explore our unique downtown and experience our distinctive shopping, dining, arts, and activities. Then staythe night at one of the Island's exceptional
overnight accommodations.
The Bainbridge Island Downtown Association and our locally owned, independent merchants are proud to present
Think Bainbridge / Buy Local.
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Michelle Lang is our new Assistant Director at BIDA. Most recently, Michelle was the event coordinator for BIDA's 22nd annual July 3rd Street Dance & BBQ. Michelle lives with her family, husband Daren, two boys, Henry and Charlie, and dog Elsa, on Bainbridge Island in Eagledale. She is excited about working with all the local businesses to help promote the unique qualities of the downtown. If Michelle doesn't stop by your store first, be sure to come by the BIDA office and welcome her to BIDA!
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Next Coffee Hour:
Friday, Oct. 10 at 8:00 am at City Hall..
Over the summer, City staff revised the reconstruction plans based on Council's directives and established a new project cost of $11.1 million. The City applied for a State TIB grant of $3.5 million, and are in the final stages of allocating $2.5 million in federal grant funds to the project. Downtown property owners also committed $1 million for the undergrounding of power from Ericksen to Madison.
Next steps include subsurface testing, which the City hopes to start in October and complete before Thanksgiving. City staff expects some disruptions along Winslow Way during this work, and will keep downtown merchants informed about specific business disruptions.
If approved by Council before the end of the year, engineering will begin next spring, the project will go out to bid next fall, and construction will begin in the spring of 2010.