Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 9

52 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 9 know how to work with city-based challenges, so there’s sort of like a tradeoff at the end of the day.” With a shift in working habits occasioned by the pandemic, Sippican Partners sees more owners using their homes as a residence and work base. “We’re two hours from Boston, three and a half from Montreal, and five from New York,” says Gaw, “a factor that has seen many people move here to use their once second homes as their primary homes.” Modern technologies like fiber and broadband coupled with smart devices for conferencing have also helped popularize an area that offers lots of open space and none of equally challenging, just with a different set of challenges. For example, in the city, you have to work within a constrained environment with foot and vehicle traffic passing by, plus most of your workers cannot drive to the site. Here, we have steep slopes and rivers running through development sites, but we also have wide-open spaces to work.” Through this observation, Gaw sees each environment as having its own challenges but also that the workers know how to maneuver around those challenges. “The workforce in this area is very adept at working with the challenges here,” he says, “while those in the city