VancouverInvestmentsCapital service · 2024
Arts, culture & heritage
The City of Vancouver's 2024 capital expenditure budget puts $35.4M into arts, culture & heritage, 4.5% of the year; the largest program is “Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) Amphitheatre”.
Source: City of Vancouver open data, capital budget 2024.
$35.4M
capital expenditure budget, 2024
By year, 2021–2026
$38.4M in 2021 · $86.2M in 2026
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Its programs, 2024
Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) AmphitheatreEntertainment & exhibition$21.6M2023-2026 Cultural Capital Grant programCultural facilities$1.7M2023-2026 Civic Theatre upgradesCultural facilities$1.1M2019-2022 Capital Maintenance - Cultural FacilitiesCultural facilities$1.0M2019-2022 New Public Art installationsPublic art$1.0MChinatown Memorial Square RedesignHeritage$945kHastings Park - Pacific National Exhibition Master Plan: Infrastructure implementationEntertainment & exhibition$900kFirst Nations Signage for Šxʷƛ̓Exən Xwtl’A7Shn and Šxʷƛ̓Ənəq Xwtl’E7ÉNḵ SquareCultural facilities$880kShow 27 more
2023-2026 Capital Maintenance - Entertainment & ExhibitionEntertainment & exhibition$810kGrant - 411 Seniors Centre SocietyCultural facilities$800k2023-2026 Capital Maintenance - Cultural FacilitiesCultural facilities$764k2023-2026 New Public Art delivered by the CityPublic art$546k2015-2018 New Public Art installationsPublic art$511k2023-2026 Maintenance of Public ArtPublic art$466k2019-2022 Cultural Infrastructure Grant programCultural facilities$404k2023-2026 Grant To Heritage FoundationHeritage$300k2023-2026 Chinatown Cultural Partnership GrantsCultural facilities$250kChinese Cultural Centre - renovationsCultural facilities$200kSun Yat-Sen Garden - Capital maintenanceCultural facilities$200k2019-2022 Renovations - Entertainment & ExhibitionEntertainment & exhibition$187k2019-2022 Maintenance - existing Public ArtPublic art$130k2019-2022 Cultural Capital GrantsCultural facilities$120kDetailed design for Firehall Arts Theatre renewal & expansionCultural facilities$108kChinatown Museum Spoke #2Cultural facilities$100kFacade Grant - 265 Carrall StreetHeritage$100kQueen Elizabeth Theatre - furnitureCultural facilities$72k2015-2018 Cultural Infrastructure Grant programCultural facilities$70k2019-2022 Capital Maintenance - Entertainment & Exhibition FacilitiesEntertainment & exhibition$68kGrant - Vancouver Cultural Spaces Fund - BC Artscape Society (BCA)Cultural facilities$50k2023-2026 Planning & Studies - Cultural FacilitiesCultural facilities$27kCCTV Cameras - Civic Theatre VenuesCultural facilities$25kVancouver Civic Theatres - Marquee SignsCultural facilities$16kVancouver Playhouse Capital maintenanceCultural facilities$13k2015-2018 Public Art Boost - CapitalPublic art$13k2019-2022 Planning & Research - Cultural FacilitiesCultural facilities$8kIn the 2023–2026 Capital Plan: $274M, by sub-category
Entertainment & exhibition4 programs$182M
Cultural facilities13 programs$56.0M
Heritage4 programs$20.3M
Public art3 programs$15.3M
Prior Capital Plan Items1 programs$235k
About these figures
Each program is listed under the service the year’s budget file gives it; a program can move from one service to another between budgets.