We’ve just wrapped up the 2025 BIA Conference!
The 2026 Annual BIA Conference will take place
April 19-22, 2026
in St. Catharines, ON.
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Awards
OBIAA would like to congratulate all of the recipients of 2019 and thank all those communities who submitted their work.
Here are the 2019 Award Winners!
Doris Lucas
Alex Ling Recipient
Doris has been apart of the BIA since its inception in 1978 as a member, board director, and chair of beautification. She has been In Downtown Greater Napanee since the 1990’s when it was hollowed out, depleted and derelict. However, having been in business here for 40 years already, she believed in the downtown. She invested in downtown properties and began revitalizing them. Doris is single handedly responsible for kickstarting the downtown revitalization at a time when box stores and fast food joints were booming near the 401.
Congratulations, Doris!
Janice Hawley
Alex Ling Recipient
Spanning a career of over three decades in both the private and public sectors, Jan Hawley has always been known as a champion for small business. This has never been more evident than in her advocacy of the innovative business recruitment initiative, “Win This Space”. Although she is the first to admit the program is for was developed by former director of the Uxbridge BIA, Sari Panodopulos in 2014, Jan has taken the initiative in a new direction sharing the merits of the program and its “ins and outs” with other BIAs and business groups around the province and other parts of the country.
Congratulations, Jan Hawley!
Downtown Yonge BIA
Friars Music Museum
Business Retention, Recruitment + Expansion
The Glebe BIA
Glebe Spree
Special Events + Promotions- Large
Downtown Parry Sound BIA
Parry Sound Girlfriends Weekend
Special Events + Promotions- Small
The Glebe
Get In The Glebe Campaign
Marketing +
Communications – Large
Downtown Bench Beamsville BIA
Barrels Bloom
Special Events + Promotions- Large
Downtown London BIA
Downtown London Alley Activation
Marketing +
Communications – Large
Downtown Bench Beamsville BIA & Town Of Lincoln
Community Chalkboard
Marketing + Communications- Small
Church Wellesley Village BIA
Revitalization During Development Dilemma
Bricks +
Mortar
Belleville Downtown District BIA
Welcoming Downtown Vibrancy De-Pave Project
Streetscaping + Public Realm Improvements- Large
