A business improvement district is an area of the city where business owners would pay an additional tax that would be reinvested back into themselves and their area. Several other cities in Montana like Missoula, Bozeman, Billings and Great Falls have adopted BIDs. 

A BID in Butte would allow business owners to work together and find common goals or tasks to breathe new life into their area of the city, said Shanna Adams, president of the Uptown Butte Masterplan Association.