VancouverInvestmentsCapital service · 2025
Arts, culture & heritage
The City of Vancouver's 2025 capital expenditure budget puts $71.0M into arts, culture & heritage, 8.1% of the year; the largest program is “PNE Amphitheatre renewal & expansion”.
Source: City of Vancouver open data, capital budget 2025.
$71.0M
capital expenditure budget, 2025
By year, 2021–2026
$38.4M in 2021 · $86.2M in 2026
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Its programs, 2025
PNE Amphitheatre renewal & expansionEntertainment & exhibition$45.0M2019-2022 Capital Maintenance - Cultural FacilitiesCultural facilities$3.9M2019-2022 Heritage Incentive program GrantsHeritage$2.9MHastings Park - Pacific National Exhibition Master Plan: Infrastructure implementationEntertainment & exhibition$2.8M2023-2026 Capital Maintenance - Entertainment & ExhibitionEntertainment & exhibition$2.5M2023-2026 Capital Maintenance - Cultural FacilitiesCultural facilities$2.4MMaking Space for Arts and Culture PriorityCultural facilities$1.5M2023-2026 Cultural Capital Grant programCultural facilities$1.2MShow 23 more
2023-2026 New Public Art delivered by the CityPublic art$1.0M2023-2026 Civic Theatre upgradesCultural facilities$1.0M2023-2026 Renovations - Cultural FacilitiesCultural facilities$825k2019-2022 New Public Art installationsPublic art$700kFirst Nations Signage for Šxʷƛ̓Exən Xwtl’A7Shn and Šxʷƛ̓Ənəq Xwtl’E7ÉNḵ SquareCultural facilities$620k2023-2026 Maintenance of Public ArtPublic art$596kVancouver Civic Theatres Capital Maintenance – Orpheum TheatreCultural facilities$500k2015-2018 New Public Art installationsPublic art$489kChinatown Memorial Square RedesignHeritage$400kHistoric Joy Kogawa House renewalCultural facilities$400k2019-2022 Cultural Infrastructure Grant programCultural facilities$395k2023-2026 Chinatown Cultural Partnership GrantsCultural facilities$340k2019-2022 Maintenance - existing Public ArtPublic art$308k2023-2026 Grant To Heritage FoundationHeritage$300kDetailed design for Firehall Arts Theatre renewal & expansionCultural facilities$250kRenovations - Entertainment & exhibitionEntertainment & exhibition$138k2019-2022 Renovations - Entertainment & ExhibitionEntertainment & exhibition$137k2023-2026 Planning & Studies - Cultural FacilitiesCultural facilities$136kFireHall Arts Theatre - Capital MaintenanceCultural facilities$50kQueen Elizabeth Theatre - furnitureCultural facilities$40k2015-2018 Cultural Planning and researchCultural facilities$38k2019-2022 Cultural Capital GrantsCultural facilities$22k2015-2018 Cultural Infrastructure Grant programCultural facilities$4kIn 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.