The City’s places
$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.
The landmarks with the most City money
Since 2011: grants to the organisation that runs the place, and its works counted once.
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Vancouver Aquatic Centre Pool · West End$177M
Granville Bridge Bridge · Downtown$58.9M
Cambie Bridge Bridge · Downtown$47.5M
Vancouver Art Gallery Art gallery · Downtown$40.6M
Hastings Park and the PNE Park and fairgrounds · Hastings-Sunrise$35.2M
Sunset Community Centre Community centre · Sunset$28.3M
Water Street, Gastown Street · Downtown$18.7MThe 60 other places
Central Library Library · Downtown$18.3M
Museum of Vancouver Museum · Kitsilano$13.7M
Stanley Park Park · Downtown$10.6M
The Seawall Seawall · Fairview$8.6M
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre Planetarium · Kitsilano$7.6M
Kitsilano Beach and Pool Beach and pool · Kitsilano$7.3M
Vancouver Maritime Museum Museum · Kitsilano$6.9M
Vancouver City Hall City hall · Mount Pleasant$6.8M
Carnegie Centre Community centre · Downtown$6.4M
Burrard Bridge Bridge · Downtown$6.2M
Killarney Community Centre Community centre · Killarney$6.1M
Orpheum Concert hall · Downtown$6.0M
Chinatown Memorial Square Square · Downtown$3.7M
Queen Elizabeth Theatre Theatre · Downtown$2.8M
Firehall Arts Centre Theatre · Strathcona$2.5M
Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre Community centre and rink · Kitsilano$2.3M
Pacific Coliseum Arena · Hastings-Sunrise$2.3M
West Point Grey Community Centre (Aberthau) Community centre · West Point Grey$2.0M
Science World Science centre · Downtown$1.8M
Jericho Beach and Pier Beach and pier · West Point Grey$1.8M
Kerrisdale Community Centre Community centre and arena · Kerrisdale$1.5M
VanDusen Botanical Garden Botanical garden · Shaughnessy$1.4M
Trout Lake (John Hendry Park) Park and lake · Kensington-Cedar Cottage$1.4M
Queen Elizabeth Park Park · Riley Park$1.2M
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden Garden · Downtown$968k
Chinese Canadian Museum Museum · Downtown$912k
Vancouver Academy of Music Music school · Kitsilano$904k
Emery Barnes Park Park · Downtown$900k
Hillcrest Centre Community centre and pool · Riley Park$780k
Oppenheimer Park Park · Strathcona$628k
Vanier Park Park · Kitsilano$592k
Coal Harbour Community Centre Community centre · Downtown$576k
Vancouver Police Museum Museum · Strathcona$500k
Robson Square Plaza · Downtown$484k
Sunset Beach Beach · West End$365k
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre Community centre · Downtown$342k
Vancouver Playhouse Theatre · Downtown$313k
Heritage Hall Heritage hall · Mount Pleasant$271k
Mountain View Cemetery Cemetery · Riley Park$184k
Hastings Mill Store Museum Museum · West Point Grey$140k
Bloedel Conservatory Conservatory · Riley Park$130k
English Bay Beach Beach · West End$104k
Roedde House Museum House museum · West End$27kThe City’s registers list 995 more places, each with its page. Search them by name or see all 1,063 places.
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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.
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Source: City of Vancouver — Statements of Financial Information (grants), capital budgets, awarded contracts, registers of places. Counted from 2011 to 2026.