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🌟 Attention Real Estate Professionals! 🌟
The Thunder Bay Community Economic Development Commission (CEDC) is accepting submissions to join the CEDC Commercial Real Estate Pool!
🔍 Why Join? CEDC is creating a trusted network of real estate agents to connect businesses looking to grow in Thunder Bay with the perfect locations. You’ll be part of a transparent, fair process to provide clients—ranging from start-ups to international companies—with expert guidance and property options.
🔑 Key Info:
- Sectors: Small to Medium Enterprises, Medium to Large Commercial, and Large Industrial.
- Terms: Two-year voluntary term, with renewal options.
- Commitment: Unpaid, flexible participation. You can opt out at any time!
Help Thunder Bay thrive and join a network that connects businesses with real estate opportunities! Apply now to be part of this initiative to boost growth and development in our community!
Current Projects & Initiatives
CEDC receives formal proposals on projects that will contribute to economic development. We respond quickly to new opportunities and initiatives to attract direct financial involvement from government and private sectors. CEDC’s staff will assist your business with attaining essential information for decision making.
Scope of work
The purpose of this project is to establish a welcoming and economically beneficial space for the new visitors traveling to the City of Thunder Bay each year from the incoming cruise lines. This project’s measurable goals and objectives include:
Extending the time that each incoming visitor spends in our Northern Ontario community.
Increasing the economic yield of each incoming visitor.
Establishing a space that has the ability to retain new cruise line clients and attract long-term large-scale development.
Project Status
In progress
Contact
Kirsten Kabernick, Program Coordinator, kirsten.kabernick@thunderbay.ca Lucy Kwiaton, Project Manager lucy.kwiaton@thunderbay.ca
Paul Pepe, Manager, Tourism Thunder Bay, paul.pepe@thunderbay.ca
Scope of work: Deliverable 1
Deliverable 1: Through a formal technical study with CRIBE we will determine the feasibility of establishing an “energy biohub” within the city designed to extract maximum value from the forest (biomass industry).
Goals would include: determining the true available wood/biomass supply, determining wood costs and characteristics, creating an on-line bioeconomy development narrative , linking to potential technology providers (including energy generation), and identify deployable alternative uses and users for mill residues and biofibre.
Project Status
Complete – https://gotothunderbay.ca/key-sectors/bioeconomy/
Scope of work: Deliverable 2
To promote the ongoing market studies and lead generation for the Bio-economy sector in Thunder Bay, we plan to produce a robust marketing strategy and sector promotional material.
Project Status
In progress
Contact
Lucy Kwiaton, Project Manager lucy.kwiaton@thunderbay.ca
Scope of work
CEDC has launched a funding program to support the installment of Electric Vehicle(EV) charging stations in Thunder Bay. This funding will be delivered through cost-sharing contribution agreements for eligible projects that will help meet the growing charging and refueling demand.
Learn more about Plug in Thunder Bay.
Project Status
In progress
Contact
Kirsten Kabernick, Program Coordinator, kirsten.kabernick@thunderbay.ca
Jamie Lee Kostecki, Project Manager, jamielee.yawney@thunderbay.ca
Scope of work
RNIP is a new community-driven immigration program. It is designed to spread the benefits of economic immigration to smaller communities by creating a path to permanent residence for skilled foreign workers who want to work and live in Thunder Bay.
Project Status
Employer applications are open, and will remain open until Candidate applications close.
Contact
RNIP Program, immigration@thunderbay.ca
Scope of work
Through a formal study introduce a high-level review of the possibilities of a copper nickel producing hydrometallurgical industry, based in the municipality of Thunder Bay, Ontario. It is hoped that this review will stimulate industry interest and study of the significant possibilities lying in application of modern hydrometallurgy to the known polymetallic mineral deposits of both the Archean eon and the younger Mid-Continent rift related, 1.1-Billion-year-old Proterozoic age copper nickel deposits of Northwestern Ontario and the adjacent US States of Michigan and Minnesota. Thunder Bay is well suited by its location and infrastructure to site the processing facilities for the concentrates derived from The Lake Superior District’s operating mines, known resources, and advanced exploration projects.
Project Status
Complete – https://gotothunderbay.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/CEDC_Hydrometallurgical-Study_final-1.pdf
Contact
Andrew Kane, Natural Resources Business Development Manager, andrew.kane@thunderbay.ca
Scope of work
The City of Thunder Bay and the CEDC engaged MNP to develop a Mining Readiness Strategy focused on business development in mining supply and services, workforce training and development, transportation and electrical infrastructure, economic impacts, research and development, and gaps and barriers to mine development.
Project Status
Execution of the goals within study
Contact
Andrew Kane, Natural Resources Business Development Manager, andrew.kane@thunderbay.ca