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About Waterfront BIA

The Waterfront Business Improvement Area (BIA) helps businesses, visitors, and residents connect to the surrounding community.

Representing businesses along the Queens Quay corridor between Bathurst and Cherry St (click here for WBIA map/boundaries), the Waterfront BIA is the business community’s voice and the unifying entity to Toronto’s Waterfront. From supporting year-round activations to advocating for infrastructure changes, we are here for the greater good of the waterfront.

Mission & Vision

The Waterfront BIA is the unifying entity for local businesses and stakeholders. We’re always looking for ways to connect, collaborate to ensure our business community is on the path to growth and success.

Supporting Businesses

We’re always highlighting the waterfront experience and reasons to visit and revisit throughout the year. We promote our businesses, share information and resources with them, and advocate on their behalf to all levels of government and in collaboration with other BIAs, business associations and industry groups.

Engaging Community

We are a leader in community engagement by keeping the neighbourhood and businesses informed on everything relevant to the community. We also create unique content and other communications for our followers, subscribers and business members and host community events for the neighbourhood to enjoy. The Waterfront BIA speaks on behalf of the area’s businesses in the media.

Unifying the Waterfront

We promote the curation of meaningful and memorable experiences along the waterfront with the goal of highlighting Toronto’s Waterfront as a top city destination, all year-round. We work to bring together a waterfront coalition of stakeholders to coordinate destination events, public art projects, environmental and sustainability initiatives and capital projects that enhance the neighbourhood.

Membership Benefits

If your business is located within the boundaries of the Waterfront BIA, you are already a member. Our team is working hard on your behalf to create a premier destination waterfront. The below list outlines your membership benefits: - Marketing for the waterfront community and your business - Keeping you informed on key issues - Attracting visitors through events and programming - Keeping the neighbourhood clean - Neighbourhood capital improvements - Advocating for issues related to your success

Meet the team

Executive Director

Tim Kocur

Marketing Director

Katherine Hebb

Operations Director

Oliver Heirlihy

Operations Manager

Dorsa Alzadeh-Shabani

Digital Marketing Manager

Jolene Warner

Marketing Communications Coordinator

Lily Barnes

Board of Directors

Chair

Kevin Currie

Wheel Excitement

Vice Chair

Anson Kwok

Pinnacle International

Treasurer

Beverly Tay

Oxford Properties

Jeff Brenner

Castlepoint Numa

Pat Dun

City Cruises Toronto

William Peat

Canada Ireland Foundation

Dr. Suzanne Bober

Harbourfront Chiropractic

Troy Burtch

Great Lakes Brewpub

Shey Clark

Great Lakes Schooner Co.

Kristian Halkias

Menkes

Nathalie Lalonde

Raddison Blu

Tony Medeiros

Dream Unlimited

Gil Meslin

Artscape

Armen Nazarian

Nazarian Law

Udo Schliemann

Entro Communications

Councillor Ausma Malik

Ward 10

Initiatives

Land Acknowledgement

The Waterfront BIA acknowledges that the land upon which we operate is the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (MCFN). In addition, the Waterfront BIA acknowledges that Toronto has historically been a gathering place for many Indigenous people including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, and is ho me to many First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples today.

Missisakis: An Indigenous History of the Tkaronto Islands