Provide businesses with a seamless, accessible and efficient business environment, establish District Central as a leader in local supply chains, and address barriers to business operations.

• Rapid Communication of Challenges and Opportunities
  Establish a mechanism.
• Smart Business Service Hub
  Simplify access to resources and services.
• Affordability and Productive Capacity Observatory
  Improve knowledge and understanding of the territory.
• Tools to Protect and Maintain Affordable Productive Spaces
  To be developed.
• Espace Connect 2.0
  To be developed. Foster collaboration among stakeholders across the territory.
• Connector of Opportunities Program
  To be strengthened. Optimize business connections and local business opportunities.
• Extension of de l’Esplanade to the North
  Connect different sectors of the territory.
• Urban Logistics
  Contribute to the City of Montréal’s initiative.

To govern the territory in a coordinated and structured manner.

• Project-Based Governance
  Establish a protocol to clarify roles, decision-making thresholds and dispute-resolution mechanisms.
• Cross-Sector Collaboration
  Create mechanisms for collaboration with other production zones.
• Economic Ethics Charter
  Define shared criteria to protect the territory’s productive and creative heart.

Foster a culture of solidarity and collaboration that helps create a place to live and work that is a source of pride.

• Sustainable Mobility Corridor
  Extend de l’Esplanade to the north.
• Signature Initiatives to Be Developed
  Strengthen the territory’s identity through landscaping, public art and wayfinding.
• Territorial Ambassador Program
  Foster a sense of belonging and raise the neighbourhood’s profile.
• Fostering a Culture of Responsibility
  For example, in waste management.
• Cleanliness and Safety
  Develop and implement a cleanliness and safety strategy and action plan for District Central.
• Commercial Vitality Plan
  Develop and implement a plan to attract local services.

Build a strong territorial brand to attract investment, businesses, and talent, while strengthening pride in District Central’s business community and increasing the visibility of its productive, creative core and artisans.

• Strategic Communications
  Communicate the neighbourhood’s resilience strengths, highlighting the stakeholders and projects that demonstrate them.
• Business Attraction and Outreach Program
  Develop a targeted welcome program to attract businesses aligned with the territory’s economic purpose.
• Territorial Ambassador Program
  Mobilize and equip businesses and institutions across the territory that want to raise its profile.