Chinatown

Commercial Heritage Properties Incentive Fund Program

July 4, 2007 Open Letters to Ministers & Public Officials

Hon. John Baird
Environment Canada
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6

Dear Minister Baird,

Re: Commercial Heritage Properties Incentive Fund Program

I am writing to urge you to re-establish the successful Commercial Heritage Properties Incentive Fund Program (CHPIF) to assist owners of heritage buildings with grants for rehabilitation and upgrading.

Proposals to Revitalize Vancouver's Chinatown

May 31, 2004

Updates from Libby

Working to promote economic development
and community safety in Chinatown.

Below are 8 proposals that the federal government can play a key role in:
1) Expand the federal government's Commercial Heritage Properties Incentive Fund (CHPIF). This program has great potential to help preserve heritage properties in the downtown core but is not adequately funded. The yearly budget for this important initiative is just $10 million - for all of Canada. The maximum allowable grant is $1 million, which means just 10 maximum grants would wipe out the yearly budget. The CHPIF budget should be increased.