Business Improvement Areas

What is a BIA?
A Business Improvement Area (BIA) is an association of business people within a specified district who join together, with official approval of the City, in a self-help program aimed at stimulating local business.

They use their own money in an ongoing effort to draw more prospective customers to their area by improving the attractiveness of the area and promoting it as a good place to shop, visit and do business.

Once a BIA is approved by City Council, every business within its boundaries automatically becomes a member. There are no exceptions, under the principle that all who benefit should be required to bear their fair share of the cost of the program.

While a BIA arises from the retail and professional activities of a main street, it has a profound effect on the surrounding area. It serves as an economic and social anchor, helping to stabilize and revitalize the local community.

A full list of Business Improvement Area's In Canada:

ONTARIO
  1. Acton Business Improvement Area
  2. Aylmer BIA
  3. Belle River BIA
  4. Bloor by the Park BIA
  5. Bloor West Village BIA
  6. Bloor Yorkville BIA
  7. Bloor/Bathurst - Madison BIA
  8. Bloorcourt Village BIA
  9. Bloordale Village BIA
  10. Bowmanville Business Centre
  11. Bronte BIA
  12. Burlington Downtown BIA
  13. Canada Technology Triangle
  14. Carleton Place BIA
  15. Chippawa BIA
  16. Clifton Hill BIA
  17. Corso Italia BIA
  18. Creemore BIA
  19. Danforth by the Valley BIA
  20. Dovercourt Village BIA
  21. Downtown Barrie BIA
  22. Downtown Belleville
  23. Downtown Cambridge BIA
  24. Downtown Hamilton BIA
  25. Downtown Heritage Perth Business Improvement Area
  26. Downtown Kingston
  27. Downtown London BIA
  28. Downtown Oakville BIA
  29. Downtown Oshawa Board of Management
  30. Downtown Rideau BIA
  31. Downtown Yonge St. BIA
  32. Dundas Downtown BIA
  33. Eglinton Way BIA
  34. Fallsview BIA
  35. Fergus BIA
  36. Forest Hill Village BIA
  37. Georgetown Central BIA
  38. Gerrard India Bazaar BIA
  39. Greektown on the Danforth BIA
  40. Harbord Street BIA
  41. Hillcrest Village BIA
  42. International Village BIA
  43. Junction Gardens BIA
  44. Kennedy Road BIA
  45. Kingsway BIA
  46. Kitchener DBA
  47. Lakeshore Village BIA
  48. Liberty Village BIA
  49. Little Italy BIA
  50. Long Branch Village BIA
  51. Lundy's Lane BIA
  52. Manotick BIA
  53. Markham Village BIA
  54. Meaford BIA
  55. Milton Downtown BIA
  56. Mimico by the Lake BIA
  57. Mimico Village BIA
  58. Mount Dennis BIA
  59. Mount Pleasant BIA
  60. Niagara Falls Downtown BIA
  61. Old Cabbagetown BIA
  62. Orangeville BIA
  63. Ottawa Street BIA
  64. Pape Village BIA
  65. Paris BIA
  66. Parkdale Village BIA
  67. Port Credit BIA
  68. Port Dalhousie BIA
  69. Port Hope BIA
  70. Preston Street BIA
  71. Peterborough Downtown Development BIA
  72. Queen/Broadview Village BIA
  73. Roncesvalles Village BIA
  74. Rosedale-Summerhill BIA
  75. Smith Falls Downtown BIA
  76. Somerset Heights BIA
  77. Somerset Village BIA
  78. St. Clair Avenue West BIA
  79. St. Clair Gardens BIA
  80. St. Lawrence Neighbourhood BIA
  81. Streetsville Business Association
  82. Sudbury Metro Centre
  83. The ByWard Market Business Improvement Association
  84. Tillsonburg BIA
  85. Upper Village (York) BIA
  86. Upper Village BIA
  87. Uptown Waterloo BIA
  88. Victoria Center BIA
  89. Village of Islington BIA
  90. Weston BIA
  91. Yonge Lawrence Village BIA
  92. York Eglinton BIA
ALBERTA

BRITISH COLUMBIA
  1. Arnprior BIA Association
  2. Campbell River BIA
  3. Chinatown BIA
  4. Commercial Drive Business Society
  5. Downtown Abbotsford BIA
  6. Downtown Chilliwack Business Improvement Association
  7. Downtown Kelowna Association
  8. Downtown Langley Merchants Association
  9. Downtown New Westminster Business Improvement Society
  10. Downtown Penticton Association BIA
  11. Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association
  12. Downtown Vernon Association
  13. Fort Langley BIA
  14. Fraser Street BIA
  15. Gastown Business Improvement Society
  16. Heights Merchants Association Business Improvement Area
  17. Kamloops North Shore Business Improvement Association
  18. Kamloops South West Business Improvement Association
  19. Marpole Business Association
  20. Robson Street Business Association
  21. Port Coquitlam Business Improvement Association
  22. Prince George Downtown BIA
  23. Nanaimo City Centre Association
  24. Salmon Arm Downtown Improvement Association
  25. Sechelt Downtown Business Association
  26. South Granville BIA
  27. Strathcona Area BIA
  28. Tsawwassen Business Improvement Area
  29. Vancouver China Town BIA society
  30. Willow Point Village BIA
  31. Yaletown BIA

MANITOBA
NOVA SCOTIA
  1. Dartmouth Downtown Development Corporation
  2. Downtown Halifax Business Commision
  3. Greater Halifax Partnership
NEWBRUNSWICK
  1. Downtown Moncton Inc

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