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The City’s places

$660M
of City money tied to 68 landmarks, from 2011 to 2026
68 landmarks with an amount · 5 families · the City’s registers below
Paid or approved, year by year

$5.1M in 2011 · $174M in 2026

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Grants in the year the City paid them; works in the year the budget was approved or the contract awarded.

Culture & libraries: 98 places

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Vancouver Art Gallery Art gallery · Downtown$40.6MCentral Library Library · Downtown$18.3MMuseum of Vancouver Museum · Kitsilano$13.7MH.R. MacMillan Space Centre Planetarium · Kitsilano$7.6MVancouver Maritime Museum Museum · Kitsilano$6.9MOrpheum Concert hall · Downtown$6.0MMarpole Branch Library Library · Marpole$4.0MQueen Elizabeth Theatre Theatre · Downtown$2.8MOakridge Branch Library Library · Oakridge$2.7MThe Cultch Theatre · Grandview-Woodland$2.6MFirehall Arts Centre Theatre · Strathcona$2.5MScience World Science centre · Downtown$1.8M
The 60 other places
Historic Joy Kogawa House Heritage house · Marpole$1.8MDr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden Garden · Downtown$968kChinese Canadian Museum Museum · Downtown$912kVancouver Academy of Music Music school · Kitsilano$904kVancouver Police Museum Museum · Strathcona$500kVancouver Playhouse Theatre · Downtown$313kHeritage Hall Heritage hall · Mount Pleasant$271kHastings Mill Store Museum Museum · West Point Grey$140kRoedde House Museum House museum · West End$27k1265 Howe Street Studios City cultural space · Downtown—Aberthau+Flax+Fibre+Food City cultural space · West Point Grey—Arts Factory City cultural space · Strathcona—BMO Theatre Centre City cultural space · Mount Pleasant—BMO Theatre Centre - Workshop City cultural space · Mount Pleasant—Britannia Branch Library Library · Grandview-Woodland—Burrard Marina Field House City cultural space · Kitsilano—Carnegie Branch Library Library · Downtown—Ceperley Meadow City cultural space · Stanley Park—Champlain Heights Branch Library Library · Killarney—Chinese Cultural Centre City cultural space · Downtown—Chinese Cultural Centre Museum and Archives City cultural space · Downtown Eastside—Cineworks City cultural space · Downtown—City of Vancouver Archives City cultural space · Kitsilano—City of Vancouver Artist Studio City cultural space · Mount Pleasant—City of Vancouver Artist Studio City cultural space · Mount Pleasant—Colbourne House/ Marpole Museum City cultural space · Marpole—Collingwood Branch Library Library · Renfrew-Collingwood—Collingwood Neighbourhood House City cultural space · Renfrew-Collingwood—Core Live/Work Studios City cultural space · Strathcona—Creekside Community Centre City cultural space · Mount Pleasant—Creekside Park City cultural space · Downtown—David Lam Multi-Purpose Hall City cultural space · Downtown Eastside—David Lam Park City cultural space · Downtown—David Lam Park/ Vancouver International Jazz Festival City cultural space · Downtown—Dunbar Branch Library Library · Dunbar-Southlands—Elm Park Field House City cultural space · Kerrisdale—Falaise Park Field House City cultural space · Renfrew-Collingwood—Firehall Branch Library Library · Fairview—Fraserview Branch Library Library · Victoria-Fraserview—Granville Street/ Entertainment District City cultural space · Downtown—Great Northern Way Scene Shop City cultural space · Strathcona—Hastings Branch Library Library · Hastings-Sunrise—Haywood Bandstand City cultural space · West End—Jericho Arts Centre City cultural space · West Point Grey—Jericho Beach/ Vancouver Folk Music Festival City cultural space · West Point Grey—Joe Fortes Branch Library Library · West End—Kensington Branch Library Library · Kensington-Cedar Cottage—Kensington Community Centre City cultural space · Kensington-Cedar Cottage—Kerrisdale Branch Library Library · Kerrisdale—Kitsilano Branch Library Library · Kitsilano—Kitsilano Neighbourhood House City cultural space · Kitsilano—Larwill Park City cultural space · Downtown—Lumbermen's Arch City cultural space · Stanley Park—Maclean Field House City cultural space · Strathcona—Malkin Bowl City cultural space · Stanley Park—McBride Field House City cultural space · Kitsilano—Means of Production Garden (MOPPARC) City cultural space · Fairview—Memorial South Park Field House City cultural space · Sunset—Moberly Arts and Culture Centre/ Field House City cultural space · Sunset—Moberly Park Field House City cultural space · Sunset—

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What counts as a place here?

68 landmarks we chose among the places the City owns, runs or funds: theatres, museums, the Central Library, parks and beaches, community centres and pools, City Hall, the bridges. A place is in only when a published record ties City money to it; it is a selection, and it grows. The City’s seven registers (community centres, libraries, fire halls, parks, cultural spaces, shelters, non-market housing) are in the list too: the search, the families and the neighbourhoods find them.

What does a landmark’s amount count?

Two things, added up. The grants the City paid to the organisation that runs the place, as its Statements of Financial Information print them (2011–2025); what the City pays the same organisation for goods and services is not counted. And the place’s works, counted once: the new capital budgets council approved for programs whose name names the place (2021–2026), or the contracts the City awarded whose description names it (2013–2025), whichever is larger — a contract is paid out of a budget, so the two are never added up. A budget is money approved, not money spent. A record that names two landmarks counts for the one it names first. What the City spends itself to run a place (staff, upkeep) is not broken down place by place.

Where do these numbers come from?

The City of Vancouver’s Statements of Financial Information (schedule of grants), its capital budgets 2021–2026 and its register of awarded contracts, on the open data portal, and its seven registers of places. Every amount on a landmark’s page opens its record: the Statement’s page, the capital program, the competition.

Awarded contracts ↗ · Capital budgets ↗ · Community centres ↗ · Cultural Spaces ↗ · Fire halls ↗ · Libraries ↗ · Non-market housing ↗ · Parks - polygon representation ↗ · Homeless shelter locations ↗ · JSON ↗ · Full method for this page →

See also

InvestmentsCapital budget adopted for 2026$894MHousingNon-market homes completed, in 581 buildings31,732homesWho gets paid2,015 named payees in 2025, suppliers and grant recipients$1.68B
Next sectionBudgetCity spending in 2025$2.55B

Source: City of Vancouver — Statements of Financial Information (grants), capital budgets, awarded contracts, registers of places. Counted from 2011 to 2026.