The capital program to implement the plan is already in motion and will continue through 2025. It is investing in the construction of a broad array of small and intermediate sized projects and a few large ones. Small businesses will complete the majority of work as they help build new neighborhoods and create opportunities to do business Downtown. The public sector will provide infrastructure support and continuing incentives for critical developments in the Strategic Investment Areas.

Work on the capital program builds on the work of public and private sector partners between 2000 and 2003, as well as significant investments made Downtown since the 1980s. The program outline in Part Two of The Queen City Hub identifies immediate and urgent requirements for work over the next six months, and longerterm work through 2010, and in some cases continuing though 2025.

Based on the pace of public and private sector development in the first three years of this decade, the 2000s are projected to see more than twice the level of investment that occurred during the 1990s. Such concrete action is heartening precisely because it adheres to the strategic vision of the Queen City Hub plan. Over the period 1990 through the implementation of programmed investments in 2003, about twenty-five percent of Downtown available for investment will have experienced it, most of it in the strategic investment areas identified in this plan.

Between 1990 and 2000, the public and private sector invested in about 8% of the surface area available for development in the central business district. In the decade of 2000, investment is projected to reach well over 16%. Essentially, we are already seeing more than twice the capital development activity experienced in the preceding decade in strategic investment areas.

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