District Diagnostic®
The first independent, practitioner-grade assessment of a special tax district's operational health.
Request Your Diagnostic
Select your district and complete the short intake form. Your full report will be delivered within 24 hours.
What Your Diagnostic Includes
8-Category Assessment
Your district is scored across eight dimensions that determine operational health. Each category is benchmarked against similarly-sized districts nationally — not against an ideal, but against what districts like yours are actually achieving.
Does your district's online infrastructure meet the standard your merchants and visitors expect — and the compliance obligations your governing body is legally required to meet?
How engaged, informed, and activated is the merchant community paying into your assessment? Participation rates, communication reach, and program uptake.
Are the people your district exists to attract — residents, visitors, workers — actually showing up, returning, and spending? Loyalty infrastructure, foot traffic signals, and activation density.
Is your district positioned to attract and retain brand and institutional partners? Inventory, packaging, measurement infrastructure, and pipeline.
Can your district demonstrate its value to property owners, merchants, city partners, and renewal boards? Data systems, annual reporting, and economic impact documentation.
Does your district have the operational capacity to plan, execute, and measure programming that moves numbers — not just fill a calendar?
What do vacancy trajectory, tenant mix, and foot traffic patterns say about where your corridor is heading over the next 18 months?
Staff structure, governance health, and the institutional resilience to absorb leadership transitions, renewal seasons, and policy disruptions without losing operational continuity.
100-Point Score
A clear, calibrated score with tier rating — A through F — that reflects your district's operational health compared to national benchmarks. No grade inflation. The score means something because it's built on data, not self-reporting alone.
Priority Recommendations
The three highest-impact gaps in your district, ranked by feasibility. Not a list of everything that could be better — the specific moves that will produce the most improvement given your budget, staff size, and operational stage.
Benchmark Context
See exactly where your district stands relative to similarly-sized districts nationally. Data drawn from the Plat Street District Registry. The benchmark isn't aspirational — it's operational. You're being compared to districts managing the same kind of corridor, at the same scale, with similar resources.
Independent Assessment. The District Diagnostic is produced by Plat Street — Block Ops. It is not produced by or affiliated with any district management platform or vendor.