Community Strategic Plan – Creating Our Tomorrow - City of Oshawa

Objective
A3. Developing New
Job Opportunities
(cont’d)
Achievements
• The City continues to leverage and promote Oshawa's key economic strengths and assets, for example:
- participated in an international Corporate Real Estate and Site Selector conference and trade show in October
2009 in partnership with Durham Region and area municipalities;
- partnered with the Region of Durham and other Durham municipalities to promote the area for new
investment;
- recognized for the City’s “Community Profile” publication and “Business Connections” newsletter by the
Economic Developers Council of Ontario (5 th year in a row the City has won economic development
marketing awards);
- partnered with the Region of Durham and Durham Strategic Energy Alliance to promote Oshawa at Globe
2008 (energy and environment sector);
- met with 35 local companies as part of Business Retention & Expansion portfolio in 2008;
- organized and hosted the annual Economic Outlook Breakfast in partnership with the TD Bank;
- exhibited at the National Brownfields Conference;
- hosted the annual Real Estate and Investment breakfasts designed to highlight the significant amount of
investment activity in the City, as well as showcase opportunities;
- sponsored the Land and Development Conference in Toronto, May 2009;
- working with UOIT on the establishment of a research park; and
- implementing the Airport Business Plan, to be updated in 2010, with the objective of attracting new
investment and jobs to the airport.
• The City continues to provide advocacy support to small businesses and entrepreneurs.
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