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What is your downtown vision? Vision 2020 – it’s true, we are rounding into the last few years before the turn of a new decade and it’s time to start thinking about how you see downtown in the future. Your downtown, our neighbourhood is the central hub for all of Kamloops. What would you like to see down here, what kind of neighbourhood do you envision yourself to be a part of? That is the basis of questions being posed by the folks from Downtown Kamloops, also known as the Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association (KCBIA). They are currently working on a five year marketing and place management plan and want to know, ‘what do you want from your downtown?’ The group, which advocates for business development, safety and social issues, and increased densification, knows that the move to the suburbs of the 80’s is now happening in reverse. More and more people are flocking back to their downtown
cores and they want to would be a good idea to ers and bistro sets are a KCBIA is to help our help make that an even present the growth and direct result of that first businesses be successful,” more attractive thing. changes to our commu- visioning session. The tells Gay. “We are in the “We hosted a 2013 nity and let them help us session, which is being midst of planning next Visioning Session with retool and reshape the hosted by the Doubletree year’s agenda, calendar great participation from next few years.” Explains Hotel right here in down- and putting together our many of our area busi- KCBIA general manager town Kamloops, will be marketing plan and we used to plan and imple- want to know what is nesses and service pro- Gay Pooler. viders. That session really Many of the place ment the next few years and is not working for helped shape the direc- management initiatives of events, programming our businesses. It is very tion of our marketing and downtown has embarked and marketing in the important to us. We are activities over the last few on including their famous downtown core. making plans for 2016 - continued on page 2 years. We really thought it street piano, giant check- “One the goals of the
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