| Current BIA Projects |
| Advertising & Promotions |
- Co-op ads for Mount Pleasant - Courier
- Car-Free Main Street Festival
- City-wide and Tourism ads - "Your Vancouver"
- Christmas Shopping Spree
- Chinese New Year events
- Canada Day promo items to shoppers
- Art & Music street mini-events
- Funding support for Celebrate Mt. Pleasant Day
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| Banners & Flowers & Lights |
- Two sets Banners per year
- 32 Hanging Flower baskets on Main/Broadway
- New street furniture design/replacement
- Street litter containers & benches
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| Business Directory |
- 11,000 packages distributed by mail
- 1,000 packages distributed by mail to external businesses
- Free listing for all Business Members.
- 10,000 distributed to: City, tourism agents, Realtors, community groups, shoppers, BIA members.
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| Economic Development Projects |
- BIA Business Needs Surveys
- Intercept Shopper Surveys
- Household Surveys
- BIA "Development & Design Guidelines Manual"
- InfoFACTS Brochures - demographic profile of catchment area, Household Income, Education, Age/Sex, Ethnicity, Survey results
- Liaison with Real Estate Industry, Vancouver Economic Development Commission,Downtown Vancouver Association, BC Chamber of Commerce
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| Facade Grant Project - non levy monies |
- Grants to business/property owners for upgrading facades
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| Graffiti Monitoring & removal |
- $50 Grant project for all property & business owners
- $100 grant to replace brocken/etched windows
- Art on the Walls. Sponsored Murals through a "donate a wall" program in partnership with the City Graffiti Management program
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| Let's Pitch in Program with Coast Foundation |
- 3 days/week street clean-up - crew of 6
- Twice weekly illegal poster removal contract
- Powerwashing lanes and streets, murals
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| Economic Development Resource Centre |
- Data base of: Members, Vacant space, Property & Business Sales
- Information on City By-laws & employment grants
- Job Board for BIA Members
- New Member InfoPAK
- Mount Pleasant Legacy Awards & Archival Photos
- Web-site up-dated & redesigned for outreach
- Monitor development of South East False Creek & False Creek Flats
- Monitor Main Street Showcase design/construction
- Monitor Millennium Line extension - Proposed Skytrain station at Broadway and Kingsway
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| Safety & Security |
- Liaison with Vancouver Police
- BIA CrimeStoppers program through the MPBIA website
- Updated crime statistics
- Bulletins on going-ons in the area
- Partnership with South Vancouver Community Policing Centre and Collingwood Community Policing Centre on various initiatives
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| Future Initiatives & Ideas |
| Street Enhancement |
- Music & Arts on the streets
- Install heritage style street lamp posts at key locations
- BIA/Mount PleasantStreet Directory or free-standing Kiosk
- Flower planters at grade - urns/podiums
- Re-install "brick" treatment on streets
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