Business View Magazine | August 2019
252 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE AUGUST 2019 or something similar, in our community. As well, we, as a community, are stepping up and identifying more areas of land within our municipal boundaries that are suitable for industrial or commercial development, something we have not done well, historically.” “We’re trying to meet the market demand that this shortage of affordable land for commercial and industrial development is creating. The high price of housing is driving people to put up with these extraordinarily difficult commute times and we’re saying ‘They’re here now, they’re part of our community, so let’s keep them local.’ That’s our strategy. “We try to identify companies that have clusters of workers, because, if it’s just a single worker here or there, we may be able to put them into an office complex or co-work space or something where it’s basically an annex where maybe they go into the office two days a week and the other three days they’re not working from home, per
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