FIVE YEAR OBJECTIVE

Celebrate and enable a rich variety of cultural and creative opportunities in the Regional Centre.

SHORT-TERM ACTIONS (YEARS 1-2)

1. Increase public investment and funding for cultural institutions, programs, and public gathering spaces.
   
   Lead: SUP
   Business Community Engagement: MEDIUM
   
   
2. Activate Regional Centre public spaces with public art, culture, educational, and democratic activity through formal and informal programming.
   
   Lead: SUP
   Business Community Engagement: MEDIUM
   
   
3. Develop a plan to improve inter-modal connection of Regional Centre cultural spaces by bus, ferry, car, car-sharing, taxi, bike, walking, etc.
   
   Lead: SUP
   Business Community Engagement: MEDIUM
   
   
4. Create an inventory of cultural institutions, events and programs in the Regional Centre.
   
   Lead: SUP
   Business Community Engagement: MEDIUM
   
   
5. Create a plan to develop vacant public and private lands in the Regional Centre for cultural institutions, public spaces and private mixed uses as part of the “Opportunity Sites Task Forces”.
   
   Lead: SUP
   Business Community Engagement: MEDIUM
   
   
6. Develop a strategy to create cultural public gathering places in the Regional Centre to achieve the “Bilbao Effect”.
   
   Lead: SUP
   Business Community Engagement: MEDIUM

MEASUREMENT

• Increased building permits in Regional Centre
• Regional Centre population growth
• More private investment in Regional Centre ($1.5 billion)
• Public perception of downtown vibrancy