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BIA DESCRIPTIONS AND CONTACTS
Bloor Yorkville
Ms. Briar de Lange – General Manager – (416) 928-3553 ext. 25
The neighbourhood is home to the award winning Village of Yorkville Park, Sante: The Bloor-Yorkville Wine
Festival, designer boutiques, spas, restaurants, plush hotels and world class galleries - over 700 in all!
Stroll our quaint laneways and unique side streets, and experience the ultimate fusion of historic charm
and modern seduction.
Tune into jazz at a cafe, meet a friend for brunch or shop for the season’s most sought after fashions.
Whatever your pleasure, whatever your whim, let us transport you to a world like no other - the
incomparable Bloor-Yorkville.
www.bloor-yorkville.com
Bloorcourt Village
Coordinator – (416) 537-7698
Located along Bloor Street West, from Montrose Avenue to Dufferin, Bloorcourt Village, which became a
BIA in 1979, is well known for its great variety of shops and services catering to all tastes and ages.
Shoppers are pleasantly surprised at the reasonable price ranges to be found here. The Annual "Sidewalk
Sale and Music Festival" takes place in September, featuring live entertainment, a fashion show, and
international cuisine tasting. The ethnic mix includes Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Japanese, Korean,
Ukrainian, and Jamaican to name just a few. A well-known shopper attraction is the Long & McQuade
Musical Instruments store, a strong supporter of the musical arts community.
Bloordale Village
Mr. Spiro Koumoudorous – Chair – (416) 259-1601
Here is a shining example of how people working together in a common cause can make a real difference.
An infectious spirit of revitalization and renewal is much in evidence along Bloor Street West between
Dufferin and Lansdowne these days, as community leaders, merchants and residents have joined
together in an ambitious program to make their neighbourhood a better place in which to live, work, shop
and visit. Bloordale Village, founded in 1976, is playing a major role in this endeavour. Restaurants and
bicycle shops predominate in this area.
Chinatown
Mr. Stephen Chan – Chair – (416) 979-3988
Chinatown is a vibrant neighbourhood in the centre of Toronto’s downtown. Home to ethnic Chinese
immigrants from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Vietnam and elsewhere, the intersection of Dundas and
Spadina is the focal point of this dynamic community.
Chinatown offers a wealth of oriental shops and a vast selection of authentic Chinese restaurants featuring
such delicacies as dim sum. The sidewalks of Chinatown, in particular on weekends, are crammed with
fruit stalls, vendors, and thousands of people from all backgrounds eager to shop, eat, and socialize.
Visitors to Chinatown will also find a diverse range of shops offering baked goods, herbal medicines,
books, videos, household items, and Chinese arts and crafts. Street signs in the area are written in both
English and Chinese, and there are two large shopping malls that cater to the ethnic Chinese - the Dragon
City and the Chinatown Centre complex
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