Business & Workforce Opportunities – The Connected Municipality

Business &
Workforce Opportunities

Help businesses, workers, and investors discover the resources and opportunities available in your community.

Why it Matters

Businesses and job seekers often need to navigate multiple organizations and systems to find the right information. Clear pathways to business support, workforce opportunities, and available sites or properties can make the local economy easier to understand and easier to participate in.

Can someone starting or growing a business find the information and contacts they need?

When it's working well

Business contacts, permits, licences, and support or funding programs are gathered on one page, with available properties where you have them. Partners such as the chamber of commerce or regional development agency are linked. Each item has a clear next step and a named contact.

Where to start

Create one "Doing business here" page that links to permits, funding programs and partner organizations. Name a contact person with a direct phone number or email. Keep a short list of available properties, with the date it was last updated.

If you don't have this yet

A business resource page and a property listing with location, size and zoning can usually be added to your current website. If a regional agency already lists properties, link to or share its listings instead of keeping a separate list.

Ideas that help

Business & Investment Resources

APPROACH

Help businesses and entrepreneurs find the support, programs, and local resources available to them.

Business information is often spread across municipal departments, economic-development organizations, chambers, funding programs, and other partners. Bringing those resources together can make it easier for businesses to understand what support exists and where to go next.

Business resources should:

Highlight available programs, grants, and incentives.
Connect businesses with permits, startup guidance, and local contacts.
Bring together relevant municipal and partner resources.
Make next steps and points of contact easy to understand.

A flow starting from Starting or growing a business, branching to permits and licences, funding and grants, finding a location, and talking to the economic development office.

Jobs & Workforce Opportunities

TOOL

Help people discover local employment, training, and workforce opportunities in one place.

Job and workforce information can be spread across municipal pages, employers, employment agencies, training providers, and regional partners. Bringing those opportunities together can make it easier for job seekers to understand what is available and connect with the right next step.

Workforce information should:

Highlight current local job opportunities.
Connect people with training and skills-development programs.
Bring together opportunities from municipal and partner sources.
Make employer, location, and application details easy to understand.

A local job board with a search box and filters, listing openings from local employers such as a front desk associate, a nurse, a day camp leader and a sales associate, each tagged seasonal, full-time or part-time.

Sites, Properties & Opportunities

TOOL

Help businesses and investors discover available properties, development sites, and other local opportunities.

Commercial land, vacant buildings, development sites, and other investment opportunities can be difficult to find when information is scattered across different departments or partner organizations. Bringing those opportunities together can make it easier to understand what is available and who to contact for more information.

Property & site information should:

Highlight available commercial and industrial properties.
Show key details such as location, size, zoning, and availability.
Identify development or investment opportunities where appropriate.
Make the next contact or inquiry step clear.

A map with available properties outlined and pinned, beside a listing for 12 Industrial Park Road showing its size, services and zoning, with a button to request site details.

Also consider

Content Ownership & Maintenance: keep website content current by making ownership, review, and maintenance part of the publishing process.
Funding & Capacity Building: help community groups and local projects find funding, support and partners.

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