Canal Flats emerging as a place for entrepreneurs, home buyers
This uncovered gem of the Kootenays has more to offer than what meets the eye. A new excitement is starting to creep into a century-old mill town in the East Kootenay. The Village of Canal Flats, beautifully positioned between Columbia Lake and Kootenay River in the Columbia Valley with Crown Land on either side, […]
Columbia Valley Chamber of Commerce Policies Adopted at BC Chamber AGM
The Columbia Valley Chamber of Commerce submitted two policies at the BC Chamber AGM in Victoria last week and both were adopted unanimously. This was the first time that the Columbia Valley Chamber of Commerce submitted resolutions to the assembly. May 31, 2017: Each year the Columbia Valley Chamber of Commerce attends the BC Chamber […]
#BCTECH Summit l Here’s What You May Have Missed!
THANK YOU for joining us at the 2017 #BCTECH Summit! Over the course of two days in March, we welcomed 5,500 attendees to the 2nd annual #BCTECH Summit to showcase the breadth of BC’s tech sector and to explore technology’s impact in transforming the way we work, live and play. Here are some 2017 highlights: […]
RED Mountain Hits $10,000,000 Goal!
RED Mountain Resort hit its $10 million crowdfunding campaign goal last month. Last summer, RED Mountain Resort launched a previously unheard of effort in the resort business called “Fight the Man, Own the Mountain” on Start Engine, with the goal of securing $10 million in reserved investments. Well, RED made that happen a few weeks […]
Heading to #BCTECH Summit? Be Sure to Find Us!
Attending British Columbia’s biggest ever technology business conference? Here’s how to find your Kootenay contingent friends and fun… Imagine Kootenay will be hanging out with our friends and colleagues from KAST in the Innovation Corridor (upper floor) along with MIDAS and Selkirk College in Research Row. The LCIC will be at the #BCTECH Summit as […]
CBT Puts New Economic Development Plan Into Action
With a vision for economic growth in the Lower Columbia, the Columbia Basin Trust is putting a new economic development plan into action. The Trust is purchasing a commercial building in the Waneta Industrial Park near Trail and, with the help of a local tech industry entrepreneur, expects the new facility to offer up new […]
Mobile Business Licences Cut Red Tape for Kootenay Companies
Three new agreements involving eight local governments have been reached in the Kootenays, allowing small businesses to operate in multiple jurisdictions with a single business licence – cutting red tape while freeing up time and money. The Mobile Business Licence program is a partnership between participating municipalities, facilitated by the Province, which allows small companies […]
Life-Work Balance to the Max! A Kootenay Example
The potential for creating the life you want, free of the needless complications, stresses and anxieties of the conventional rat-race often associated with more urban environs – a life-work balance – is becoming increasingly available here in the Kootenays. One Rossland resident is embodying that balance to the utmost, having left his big city, big […]
Promoting Vancouver Lite to Entice Vancouverites to Smaller Cities
“Place-based” marketing has become an effort gaining traction throughout the province as rural BC communities look to employ strategies encouraging talent retention, looking to take from cities such as Vancouver and Calgary. Looking to more of a Vancouver Lite approach to marketing smaller BC cities. In reference to Prince George and Quesnel’s recent campaigns to […]
Need Space for Your New Business? We’ve Got You Covered!
If you’re looking for the perfect space for your new business idea, business relocation or expansion plans, Imagine Kootenay has your back! From Grand Forks to Revelstoke to Fernie, restaurant to retail, we have a great list of opportunities to help you find the space that that will be the perfect fit for your unique […]