That's a great question.
The community has really begun to come together. I think the biggest thing was being able to see each other and come out of our homes. There's the public art that we now partner with the Vancouver Biennale on. Seeing murals coming together.... Also, there's even the community coming to us on a daily basis and saying, “Christy, we have trouble with this particular back alley.” When we look at that back alley, we do a quick study and then realize that we need to do something. We do greening of the alleys. All of a sudden, we have food security planters that come up so that people can actually eat food from the alleyways. We're also doing presentations and putting arts and paintings in those places that are gritty, renewing and reviving. The trust of the community has probably been one of the most noteworthy things.
It's being together and building and creating spaces. When we look at the different spaces, we see that now we have new buildings coming in that wouldn't have been there if the festivals hadn't been there. We have new money coming in, with people in businesses that are contributing, not doing what we call predatory retail but doing things that are building.