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Welcome to PetawawaThe Town of Petawawa is the largest community in Renfrew County with a population of 15,500. The Town enjoys a unique partnership with Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Petawawa to provide a family-oriented and sports-enthusiast centered setting along the Ottawa River. Here you will find quality housing at affordable prices and an abundance of products, services and skilled labor that you would have expected only from a much larger community. As a commercial developer you will find a wide selection of serviced and non-serviced residential, commercial and industrial land available for building homes and establishing business ventures. Our public utilities are state of the art and well maintained. Clean water, excellent roads, reliable power and motivated/educated employees are the norm in Petawawa. Only five minutes from the centre of town is a modern, fully equipped airport. With a paved 5,000 foot runway, it is used by both private recreational aircraft as well as corporate jets 24 hours a day, all year round. Petawawa boasts a quality of life that is second to none, with state of the art recreational facilities, modern infrastructure and growing commercial and industrial sectors. The Town is rich in culture and heritage, abounds with scenic nature, and is steeped with a deep sense of community pride. Come and visit us, and see just how we are Dynamic by Nature. With neighbourly regards,
For additional development opportunities please contact Cyndy Phillips McCann Business PlanningBusiness planning is an integral part of any successful venture. There are several excellent local resources offering business planning services, including help with:
Enterprise Renfrew CountyTwo Locations to Serve You:
Enterprise Renfrew County is a free information and advisory service for anyone interested in starting their own business, and for existing small business operators. We offer a comprehensive walk-resource library of business literature and advisory materials, and a quiet place for the entrepreneur to work. An experienced Business Consultant is available by appointment to meet with you at the centre or at your place of business if preferred. We can help with most questions about small business and provide you with the information you need to get your business going and keep it running successfully. If there are questions that we can't answer we can steer you to the sources of more specialized information. Renfrew County Community Futures Development Corporation2 International Drive Community Futures organizations are operated as not-for-profit corporations receives annual operating funding by Industry Canada. Governed by a local volunteer board of directors and staffed by professionals who encourage Entrepreneurship and the pursuit of economic opportunities, the Renfrew County Community Futures Development Corporation has been helping small business in the Renfrew County area since 1986. It has invested over 7 million dollars in small business and created more than 1600 jobs through loans, advisory services and the Employment Benefit Program in co-ordination with Human Resources Development Canada. County of Renfrew Economic Development Services9 International Drive Ottawa Valley Economic Development, which is a division of the Development and Property Department, has as its primary function, the promotion and delivery of Economic Development in the County of Renfrew. Programs in this regard are undertaken independently or in conjunction with lower tier development department partners or individual municipalities. The focus of these initiatives is all industrial/business sectors within the County. Several data bases are maintained ranging from business directories to demographics, available properties and recent news. Custom research for specific information, required by site selectors, can be handled quickly by available research staff. In today's "connected" environment the choice is no longer where does one have to live to do business, but how can one do business where one wants to live. Programs
Petawawa Industrial Park
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