Business View Magazine | December 2019

388 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2019 are here that Markham would have, with the exception of a big mall. So, one of my goals, working with our Economic Development Officer, is to connect our past – seeing agriculture as a huge economic driver – and looking towards the future with new technologies and vertical farming, and really focusing on incentivizing companies that want to grow food here. We have thousands of acres of Class A farmland that can be leveraged. Our weather patterns and growing seasons are changing rapidly, so when we had an application come in for 140 greenhouses, we jumped all over it. That’s exactly what we want is people growing year-round.” BVM: Is downtown development on the current project list? Lovatt: “Our downtown needs an overhaul, but we have to get all new infrastructure to support redevelopment of what we have, and new development. The province has designated the area around our GO Station on Main