In 2014, the MURAL Festival was held between June 12 and June 15, 2014. During this year, the festival started "Le Market", a pop up shop in the Parc du Portugal. This market allowed festival attendees to listen shop local stores while listening to live music. MURAL also worked with ExCentris Cinema to present screenings of street art and graffiti related short films. Every day, the MURAL Block Party had live stage music in the parking lot behind Station 16 Gallery on St. Laurent. In the same lot, the popular Parisian artist painted the festival's sponsored mural this year in the same lot. This mural took over from the En Masse mural displayed during the previous year's festival. For MURAL's 2015 edition, the festival extended their 2014 period of 4 days to 11 days, from June 4 until June 14. These news dates coincidentally overlapped with Grand Prix weekend. Boulevard Saint-Laurent was again closed off to traffic from Sherbrooke Street to Mont-Royal Avenue, in order to accommodate artists and festival attendees to look at the street art. Twenty new murals were painted for 2015s festival, which brought the number of murals created since the festival first to a whopping 50. This festival also allowed visitors to partake in guided tours and attend presentations films on the subject. "Le Market" continued, allowing festival goers to shop local market stalls and visit street art galleries. The fourth annual MURAL Festival ran from June 9 to 19, continuing the 10 day long festival period from the previous year. In 2016, MURAL co-organizer Andre Bathalon mentioned his goal for the festival: for attendees to watch artists at work, so they can gain an appreciation for the detail that goes into each piece. Bathalon continued, "The goal is really to attract the attention, so we're not doing any subtle concepts. All the drawings are edgy, punchy so they really make you stop to say 'Wow'." 2016's festival featured world renowned artists from 8 different countries. They had 29 local, national, and international artists, and five earlier murals were replaced with new murals for the new year. The festival started from "mural central" behind the LNDMRK offices, goes up St-Dominique and the eastern side of St-Laurent then down Clark—all of these spaces are "pedestrian only" during the duration of the festival. In 2016, MURAL Festival was officially recognized as the "largest gathering of urban art in North America… bringing MURAL's permanent public legacy to more than 60 major works."