UPTOWN GSO!

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes IMAGINATION!“

Thinking Outside the Box: Without cardboard boxes, the age of Amazon may never have happened. Forget shoe boxes, Chinese takeout boxes, and pizza and coffee boxes: the most popular (and iconic!) box in the world is the cardboard shipping box. Children make forts out of them. Adults use them for storage. E-commerce and shipping giants have deployed them to keep up with the growing demand of online shoppers.

This simple cardboard packaging, used in approximately 90% of retail shipments, has become the gold standard for the safe delivery of e-commerce wares. The shipping box is light, yet sturdy enough to protect its contents throughout the sometimes tumultuous shipping process, and its affordability makes it accessible to businesses of all sizes.

In order to grow and revitalize Uptown Greensboro… we must first establish it’s box!

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”

Uptown GSO Inc. (UGI) is an economic development organization focused on stimulating investment and activity in the “northeastern section” of Greensboro, NC. As a non-profit entity, our mission is to establish a business improvement district (BID) that will have a transformative impact on this community.

This BID is a defined area within which businesses are required to pay an additional tax in order to fund projects within the district's boundaries. Think of this additional tax as if it were a homeowners association feeThe BID is often funded primarily through the levy, but can also draw on other public and private funding streams. These districts typically fund services which are perceived by some businesses as being inadequately performed by government with its existing tax revenues, such as cleaning streets, providing security, making capital improvements, construction of pedestrian and streetscape enhancements, and marketing the area. The services provided by BIDs are supplemental to those already provided by the municipality. The revenue derives from a tax assessment on commercial property owners, and in some cases, residential property owners.