Let get some incentives for businesses to be here! Try free or reduced taxes for the first year. Or start up loans to small businesses trying Wetaskiwin out as a market. The cost of these things are prohibitive for small businesses and being a small town, we should be promoting them.
– Laurel from Draft Plan Comments (“Encourage progressive and sustainable development“)
(Thumbnail Photo Credit: ”money” by dawn m. armfield)
5 comments
RJM says:
Apr 28, 2010
The problem is no one wants to set up a business here. There are too many negative stories in the Times to really invite businesses.
I don't know, but if I read the paper and didn't know the city myself, Id be long gone.
@JEDIAlberta says:
Apr 28, 2010
You may have heard JEDI say before that we believe everyone in a community is involved in economic development. Arguably, economic development organizations typically advertise a community's advantages, but the promotion of the community comes from everyone. There is no one single source of information an industry looks at when choosing a community to locate or expand in. It's the overall communication from the community, in many forms, not just the local media, that decision-makers listen to.
Industry within the JEDI region is growing. Under JEDI's innovative Master Cost and Revenue Sharing Agreement, industrial assessments were shared on 13 properties in 2009, up from 6 properties in 2006. Industry is looking at our communities as places to do business and they are choosing to locate or expand here.
Residents in our region are informed, they're engaged, and they're passionate. And that bodes well for our region. That makes our municipalities strong and it makes our residents good ambassadors for their communities.
albert19 says:
May 23, 2010
The City has had incentives in place or new businesses since at least 2001. These incentives provided tax credits equal to 24 months property taxes. In the past year the City has been forced to revisit these tax credit policies due to an agreement between the province and the province of British Columbia. The difficulty with doing business here is not the "City", it is the citizens. They do not support local business. Property taxes account for less than 1% of the cost of doing business. The problem is citizens run elsewhere to purchase their goods.
If each household does business with a least ten businesses a week we wold have a vibrant community.
Jackson says:
Jun 23, 2010
If there were 10 busnesses here that I could use that would be great.!
Sally says:
Jan 4, 2012
$author nice share. Thanks for sharing!