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What do we do
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
Banners & Flowers & Lights
  • Two sets Banners per year
  • 32 Hanging Flower baskets on Main/Broadway
  • New street furniture design/replacement
  • Street litter containers & benches
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.
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
Facade Grant Project - non levy monies
  • Grants to business/property owners for upgrading facades
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
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
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
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
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