Spokane's historic Hillyard neighborhood - once its own city - was a bustling center of commerce and community in the early 20th Century. By the early 2000s, Hillyard was home to one of the poorest census tracts in the state, and the once-thriving commercial core along Market Street was marked by abandoned buildings, boarded up windows, and was little more than a thoroughfare for trucks bound for Canada. To begin to turn things around, the City of Spokane created the Northeast Public Development Authority in 2011. This tax-increment-funded organization is charged with making targeted investments back in Hillyard to catalyze growth, and private-sector investment, and to guide Hillyard back toward a path of progress and prosperity.

 

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