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Westside

The Westside Business Improvement District (BID) is constantly working towards creating a more attractive, better-marketed, brighter, safer and cleaner business environment in Broad Street, Brindleyplace, Five Ways, Centenary Square, Broadway Plaza and all the surrounding areas.

Westside is Birmingham's premier mixed-use business area with 15,000 people employed in over 300 businesses throughout the area, including offices, hotels, pubs, clubs, restaurants and leisure venues. It also includes the International Convention Centre, Arena Birmingham, the National Sealife Centre and the award-winning Brindleyplace.

The BID was established in July 2005 following a successful ballot of 262 businesses throughout the Broad Street area. With a 92% 'YES' vote, the result is still the highest of all BIDs in the UK to date. In November 2009 businesses within the BID area voted in favour of the team's efforts continuing, with a fantastic 94% 'YES' vote. The tied BID received the highest vote of any other in the UK at a record 98%.

Southside

Southside District isn't called the cultural heart of Birmingham without reason. It's theatre and cinema, it's drinking and dancing, it's sizzling Szechuan and classic Cantonese. And behind the scenes of these unique and vibrant businesses is the dedicated Southside District BID team, there to support in good times and bad in dozens of different ways. BID stands for Business Improvement District; a not-for-profit, elected organisation in place to deliver what the title suggests. Stretching from the steps of New Street Station, along Bristol Street and around the impressive new Smithfield development, the BID team drives footfall to the area, works with the hundreds of businesses that call the district home, keeps the area safe and clean, as well as lobbying the city council and much, much more. But the BID is ultimately put in place by the people it serves. Every five years, businesses reflect on everything that the team has achieved, then vote yes or no to another term.