Town Center Improvement District

Now Called The Woodlands Township

The Town Center Improvement District (TCID) was formed in 1993 by the Texas, USA legislature as a government agency charged with promoting and maintaining economic development in The Woodlands Town Center area. In 2001, TCID created a special economic development zone to assist in the expansion of the Pavilion (see below).

Mission

To promote, develop, encourage and maintain economic development for the public benefit of The Woodlands area.

Projects

• Producing events
  • Red, Hot & Blue Festival on July 4
  • Lighting of the Doves to open the holiday season a week before Thanksgiving
  • The Woodlands Winter Wonderland
  • The Ice Rink
• Public Safety Center
• Alpha & Omega Royal Courtesy Mounted Patrol
• Town Center Ambassadors
• Beautification initiatives along I-45
• Wayfinding signage throughout the district
• The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel & Convention Center
• The Woodlands Mall expansion
• Development of Market Street
• The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion expansion
• Creation of Town Green Park

Funding

The principal source of revenue for TCID is sales and use taxes paid by businesses and consumers within the 1,000-acre (2.5 km²) district. TCID also receives hotel occupancy tax revenue that it currently uses to retire debt on its new convention center. TCID has generated more than $60 million in local sales tax and $379 million in tax revenue for the State of Texas since 1993. TCID relies on partnerships to provide capital improvements, infrastructure, special events, marketing, and public safety for the people who live, work, and play at The Woodlands Town Center.

Board of directors

The 2006 board comprises:

• Edmund W. Robb, III - chairman
• Vicki D. Richmond - vice-chairman
• Fred R. O’Connor - treasurer and assistant secretary
• Lloyd W. Matthews - secretary
• Nelda Luce Blair - director
• Kemba D. DeGroot - director
• Peggy S. Hausman - director
• Robert C. Kinnear - director
• Ken Smith - director
• Alex Sutton III - director
• Les R. Tarrance, Sr. - director

External links

• Town Center Improvement District