Stakeholders seek to revitalize The Hill

BOULDER — From hosting live music by world-class bands to serving pizza to a visiting president, The Hill has been entertaining, feeding and supplying a population comprised mostly of Boulder’s college students for decades.

Over the years, however, businesses in the area have suffered declining  appeal to year-round customers.  Nine months of customers doesn’t balance well with 12 months of overhead.

Strategies to address the problem include a request by property owners in the 1970s to tax themselves through the establishment of the University Hill General Improvement District (UHGID).  The money went…