London’s Hyde Park BIA hopes to expand [Video]

Hyde Park has undergone significant changes in recent years and General Manager of the Hyde Park Business Improvement Association, Donna Szpakowski, said that her agency is proud of what they’ve accomplished, “working with businesses to establish the unique identity that exists today for the Hyde Park BIA.”

The agency started 30 years ago as business representatives for a small village in northwest London.

They achieved BIA status in 2017, most notably guiding the area through a significant metamorphosis in the last 20 years.

The population and the number of businesses grew dramatically.

Now they want to expand the BIA under a new Uptown London banner, with the biggest addition being a stretch of Wonderland from Sunningdale to Oxford.

Approximate depiction of Hyde Park BIA boundary expansion (Source: Hyde Park BIA)

Szpakowski told CTV News that the key will be having distinct business hubs, or nodes, throughout the region, which will “create and maintain the identity of each of these …