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BIAs in the Downtown EastsideAn introduction to Strathcona and Hastings Crossing Business Improvement Areas Joji Kumagai, Executive Director, SBIAWes Regan, Executive Coordinator, HXBIA

+Where we areHastings Crossing BIA

+History and general makeup

Hastings Crossing BIA founded 2010

600 + businesses and property owners in BIA geography majority of which are SMEs

with 10 employees or less. Wide array of retail, professional services, restaurants, and social enterprises.

+Who is Hastings Crossing BIA?Branding, marketing, and being a place

Socially inclusive, for revitalization not gentrification

Sees business as a force for positive social change and likewise sees the low income community as a partner and asset for business community through social enterprises and non-profits who employ residents through BIA programming

Identifying and building on community assets, increasing community capacity through BIA programming, promoting a healthy and diverse mixed commercial district that contributes to a livable and affordable community

Edgy, urban, artistic, gritty, creative, entrepreneurial, innovative, controversial, daring, unique, historic, fascinating

+Amazing historyAmazing potential

+Amazing historyAmazing potential

+Diverse and Creative

+An area known for social and political activism

+Urban

+Bigger picture

A healthy, sustainable, socially inclusive, vibrant, diverse and fully functioning Downtown Eastside. Cooperating with other BIAs, the City and numerous partners in the private and public sector

Successful and sustainable businesses that are partners in community development and contributors to a resilient local economy

A successful model for other cities to build on and be inspired by

+Events we have partnered with or sponsored this year

Central City Foundation’s Fair in the Square

Megaphone- Victory Square Block Party

Word on the Street- Carnegie Centre

+Questions?

Hastings Crossing Business Improvement Association (HXBIA)Wesley Regan, Executive DirectorP.O. Box 88188418 Main StreetVancouver, BC V6A 4A5T: 604.805.3591wes.regan@hxbia.com