Tag Archives: BIA

As consumer expectations have changed, online shopping has become the norm and mobile devices have become ubiquitous, the demand for Toronto’s main street businesses to embrace technology has never been greater. Implementing a digital plan can be a challenge. From ...

Wellington Street, from Church Street to York Street will have lane reductions beginning April 10 until September 2017. Richmond Street or King Street will be alternative routes for westbound cyclists and drivers. The City of Toronto is taking steps to ...

The St. Lawrence Market Neighbourhood BIA will be hosting a focus group on Feb. 15 at 2 p.m. at C’est What? at 67 Front St. E. to discuss the city’s King Street Pilot Study. BIA members should email reynoldcaskey@stlawrencemarketbia.ca to ...

For Downtown business owners who want to improve their streetfront appearance, facade grants may offset the cost. The 2017 Commercial Facade Improvement Grant application form is now available on the city’s website. This grant provides funding to commercial and private ...

After a year-long process, the St. Lawrence Market Neighbourhood Business Improvement Area (BIA) now has a master plan to guide public realm improvements within their boundaries. Composed by DTAH, a local landscape architectural firm, the master plan is a significant ...

The Toronto Entertainment District BIA meeting about hydro rates on Dec. 9 at 2 p.m. will include a round-table discussion with MPP Han Dong to discuss how hydro costs are impacting local business. The meeting (at the BIA office at ...

“All politics is local,” said Tip O’Neill in 1935. He might have added: some issues are perennial, and some elephants—especially those that might want to sit down on Parliament St.—never leave the room. All of which verities manifested on Oct. ...

Dennis Hanagan— At its October meeting, Toronto community council appointed nominees to the management boards of Business Improvement Areas in greater Downtown. The BIAs and appointees are: Downtown Yonge: Patrick Gauch, Robert Housez, Stephen McGrath and Martin Wray. Leslieville: Tracy ...

The BIA is honouring the history of entertainment in the area while implementing exciting programs to support the growing community with the goal of ensuring its events and festivals are for all Torontonians – inclusive and welcoming. The DYBIA is ...

Grant Humes– The City of Toronto recently presented its Toronto Employment Survey 2015 at the February Planning and Growth Committee, and the numbers are good. Toronto saw its second-best year of employment growth in the last decade, adding 37,870 jobs, ...