DOWN TOWN RICHMOND

An approach to revitalizing down town Richmond was started in August 2002

The goal of the approach is to undertake and stimulate the socioeconomic and development concerted in the area.

Following are the main challenges to overcome:

• Open dialogue and establish collaboration where all businesses are considered partners;
• Improve commercial diversity and better serve the consumer;
• Animate the area and better orchestrate its promotion, and,
• Improve the look of buildings, the physical aspect of the streets and public development.

Since the establishment of this committee, numerous business people, community representatives, and developers have joined

 The Revitalization Committee of down-town Richmond's members are:

Guy-Lin Beaudoin, General Manager. - Town of Richmond

Guy Boutin, councillor - Town of Richmond

Nadia Dubé, Camping Melbourne

Nathalie Gagnon, Espace en mouvement

Martin Lafleur, Director - CPIR

Charles Mallette, Councillor - Town of Richmond

Marc-André Martel, Mayor of Richmond

Manon Morin, Fleuriste Richmond

Yvon Poirier, Bijouterie Poirier

Sylvie St-Syr, Pharmacie Proxim

Josée Parent, Pub Amigo

Committee's Goals:

• Guarantee the co-ordination of the efforts and actions to revitalize;
• Improve relationships between all major contributors or partners of the Town;
• Guarantee open communication, knowledge and data related to actions or activities by partners affecting the global process of economic revitalization;
• To find a consensus so that collective decisions take into account the expectations of each partner
• Evaluate a situation in the beginning to be able to compare data one year later, and see the evolution
• Define the direction in which the application of the approach for revitalizing Main Street should be
• Explore how to autofinance long term
• Supervision of the coordinator's work and decision making.

The coordinator is Mr. Rémi-Mario Mayette.  You can reach him at 819 826-3789, extension 227.