Jaime Martinez became the Yonkers Downtown Waterfront Business Improvement District’s executive director in October of 2016.
The Yonkers Downtown Waterfront Business Improvement District puts together the Friday night summer jazz programs, the “dancing in the daylighting” series and the huge Riverfest event in the fastest-growing downtown in Westchester County.
The Yonkers Downtown Business improvement district is a private, nonprofit group that is primarily funded through a special fee assessed to property owners within the BID’s boundaries.
The downtown BID is odd shaped and stretches from the Yonkers Pier up to the “Chicken Island” parking lot and then over to Wells Avenue
Jaime Martinez represents the interests of about 200 property owners in the downtown Yonkers BID.
His annual budget of just under a million bucks.
The downtown BID also funds some BID staffers who patrol the area sweeping sidewalks.
The downtown BID is based at 15 Main Street.
Jaime Martinez, 37, is a Georgia native, came to the Yonkers Downtown Bid after serving about two years as Mount Vernon’s acting planning and community development commissioner under former Mayor Ernest Davis.
He graduated from New York University with a masters degree in urban planning