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Mission et vision

Mission

Promote the Quartier Latin’s economic and cultural development through creating a clean, safe, exclusive and entertaining environment for members, visitors as well as residents.

Vision

Montréal hub for ideas, culture, business and entertainment. A place tailor-made for innovation, development and expression.

Commercial typology of the 156 SDC members *5 Budget

Facts and Figures

156 members

1,773 jobs1

$450,000 2009 annual budget

$265,000 in member contributions for 2009

10,000,000 visitors every year

$125,000,000 estimated2 retail sales on SDC territory

$16,200,000 in GST/QST from retail trade

$3,000,000 in municipal taxes paid by members for 2009

2009 Main Events

  • Les rendez-vous du cinéma québécois
  • Montréal High Lights Festival
  • Festival TransAmérique
  • Just for Laughs Festival
  • World Film Festival
  • Transatlantique Montréal

2009 Main Achievements

  • Over 5,000 hours dedicated to keeping the Quartier Latin clean, thus providing ancillary services to the City of Montréal;
  • In partnership with the SPVM, client relation services and incivility prevention project for the summer period;
  • Terrace expansion on public property;
  • Quality control and supervision – street furniture setup in the Quartier Latin in partnership with the Borough of Ville-Marie;
  • Installation of 120 window-boxes;
  • Production of Quartier Latin decorative banners;
  • Murals and decorative banners created by artists;
  • Over 75,000 Christmas lights;
  • Creation of a partnership with the main Quartier Latin stakeholders (NFB, Cinémathèque, BAnQ, UQAM);
  • Marketing campaign promoting the Quartier Latin;
  • New Website version 2.0;
  • PR@M-COMMERCE implementation.

Within Local Market Area

  • 74,076 residents2
  • 4,389 corporations3
  • 48,604 workers4 including around 1,700 employees5 on the SDC territory
  • 42,257 university students6
  • Over 12 million7 users every year at the Berri-UQAM métro station, the busiest of the STM network
  1. InfoCanada 2006 median
  2. Estimate based on data from the City of Montréal’s Service des finances with relation to retail business size for each SDC. Such data was then cross-tabulated with the median value of sales per square feet as estimated by Dollars and Cents. This can be used only as a conservative estimate as business performance may not always be evaluated through that same method. Please note that all professional firms and large corporations have been left out of the calculations hereof.
  3. Convercité, Enquête sur les usagers des artères comes données
  4. Statistics Canada, 2006 census
  1. InfoCanada 2006
  2. InfoCanada 2006
  3. Commercial typology based on data provided by the City of Montréal’s Service des finances, December 2007
  4. www.uqam.ca
  5. www.stm.info/en-bref/ra2006/ra2006.pdf.