Discussion includes nightlife economy, hospitality and safety

Last month, nightlife experts from New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco met in Toronto for a one-day conference to discuss how to best make a city thrive. The experts shared their success stories in the areas of management, policing and planning of a better nightlife for their own city and how some of those ideas could be implemented in Toronto.

Jim Peters, president of the Responsible Hospitality Institute, was a keynote speaker at the conference and spoke about trends driving nighttime economy, including successful elements of a hospitality zone, managing closing time crowds and noise levels – all initiatives the BIA is progressively addressing through its best practices approach to managing nightlife.

Chairman of the Entertainment District BIA Jack Robinson said about the conference: “We firmly believe that by implementing approaches used successfully by other cities, we can better ensure that Toronto’s Entertainment District will have a flourishing and well-balanced nightlife, and that the interests of our diverse membership will be progressively intertwined.”