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Located in the heart of Vancouver's cosmopolitan business district, the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association (DVBIA) serves a 90-block area that consists of 8,000 businesses, property owners and tenants - and attracts thousands of employees, tourists and shoppers every day.
 
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Downtown Vancouver will be centre ice for the 2010 Winter Games - will your business be ready? How the Olympics unfold in the downtown core will be different from other parts of the city.

So, the DVBIA has created the first of two issues of a 2010 Downtown Vancouver Business Readiness Guide. This guide get you to think about the areas of business continuity that will put you, your employees and business in the best position to take advantage of what is to come.

Watch for the second issue of this Guide to be published in late 2009. In the meantime, please take five minutes let us know if we’ve hit the mark in terms of the information included to help us make sure the next issue is even more valuable to you. Complete the survey
 

click on the image to download the guide
 
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TRIPLE VOTE AT AGM JUNE 17
 
Members are invited to vote on a new ten-year mandate for the DVBIA, the proposed 2010-2011 budget and a levy increase of three per cent at the association’s Annual General Meeting. 
 
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Location: SFU’s Graduate School of Business, 500 Granville Street
Time: 4pm
Who: All registered voting members are eligible to attend, but must register in advance and have currrent DVBIA membership. Renew your DVBIA membership here.
 
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ANNUAL APPRECIATION AWARDS CEREMONY & RECEPTION
 
Celebrate the achievements of this year’s Appreciation Award recipients who have made downtown more vibrant, while networking in a unique downtown heritage location.
 
This year’s recipients include Jack Poole, Chair of VANOC (Art Jones Lifetime Achievement Award), Ian Gillespie, CEO of Westbank Projects Corp., (Individual Category), and The Sun Run (Organization Category).
 
Date: Wednesday, June 17
Location: Birks Vancouver, 698 West Hastings @ Granville Streets
Time: 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm (awards ceremony 5:30 pm)
Cost: $30 (+ GST) or $250 (+ GST) for ten tickets.
 
To attend the AGM and/or the Annual Appreciation Awards Ceremony & Reception, contact Barbara Fairbrother at 604-685-7811, barbara@downtownvancouver.
 
Thanks to our sponsors
 
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