June 9, 2022
In response to safety and security concerns in Edmonton’s Chinatown community, the City has provided $300,000 in immediate funding to help Chinatown businesses with enhanced security monitoring.
“Chinatown business owners have been burdened by the financial costs of hiring private security to help keep their employees, buildings and businesses clean and safe,” said City Manager Andre Corbould. “On top of difficult social and economic challenges, this is too much hardship for the Chinatown community to bear. This grant will immediately alleviate some of this burden.”
This grant, one of the actions outlined in Edmonton’s Downtown Core and Transit System Safety Plan, will be administered by the Chinatown and Area Business Association. The grant will help hire nine security guards to patrol Chinatown 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
“Improved security in Chinatown will stimulate our local economy and help the people living and working here to feel safer,” said Wen Wang, Executive Director of the Chinatown and Area Business Association. “We want our Chinatown to return to the proud, vibrant, active community it once was.”
More information on the other safety initiatives underway as part of Edmonton’s Downtown Core and Transit System Safety Plan can be found at
edmonton.ca/DowntownSafety.
