About the BIA

Image of downtown St. Marys businesses

The St. Marys Downtown Business Association is a not-for-profit organization established to revitalize the central district of the Town of St. Marys. We are designated as a Business Improvement Area (BIA) through the Ontario Municipal Act and a Town of St. Marys by-law enacted in 1979.

Our goal is to ensure a healthy economic environment for our community and make our downtown a better place to shop, dine, live, work, invest, visit and play!

Our mandate is simple: To provide effective leadership in order to beautify and promote St. Marys' downtown as a unique and vibrant entertainment, social, cultural and economically viable business centre.

BIA Constitution

View maps of the town, as well as the Business Improvement Area boundaries.

Current BIA Board members

Chair: Megan Feeney
Vice-Chair: Alexandra Pritchard O’Shea
Treasurer: Sue Griffiths
Council Representative: Councillor Brogan Aylward
Board Members:

Lisa Fewster
Jan Scott
Daniel Troyer

The Value of BIAs Webinar presented by Kay Matthews of the OBIAA

On Monday, October 3rd, 2022, The Value of BIAs Webinar was presented by Kay Matthews, the Executive Director of the Ontario Business Improvement Area Association (OBIAA). Kay discussed things such as, what a BIA is, why BIAs were created and their value to the Downtown core.

Visit the Town of St. Marys YouTube page to view the full webinar.