“We have 18 new vendors aside from all of our current vendors, which means we’re spreading throughout the paths,” said Williams while surveying the landscape of Town Park. “It’s crazy how much space we need.”
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York Region Business News
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‘Makes downtown more vibrant’: Stouffville gets set for summer patio season
“The patio program helps with a number of things,” she said. “It makes the downtown more vibrant, which is desperately needed right now. It really does help the local businesses as it does add more charm to Main Street.”
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York U’s Markham Campus helps students hone skills in the real world
“The campus will offer students the competitive advantage of an experiential education designed to produce job-ready candidates,” says Gordon Binsted, deputy provost of Markham Campus.
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Markham-based QEA Tech receives seed funding of $2.2M to accelerate its global growth
Started in 2019, QEA Tech identifies issues throughout the building envelope, quantifies their energy loss and GHG emissions, and provides the ROI of retrofits. In the last 3 years, QEA Tech has delivered over 500 projects in North America.
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Mackenzie Health named recipient of the 2023 Excellence in Patient Safety Award
This Excellence in Patient Safety Award recognizes individuals and teams that are committed to improving patient safety practices within the healthcare environment, through leadership, culture, best practices, innovation and change management expertise.
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CosmoFEST – Canada’s premier musical instrument expo and live music festival in Richmond Hill is back
“We know that CosmoFEST is all about bringing music and the community together and we wouldn’t have it any other way. More than ever, we are grateful to perform music for the people. On June 3rd we kick off our summer touring at CosmoFEST in Richmond Hill.” — Neil Osborne, 54·40
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Aurora entrepreneur driven to propel economic growth in York Region
“I have lived in York Region for over 30 years, and have worked here for half that time. Contributing to the continual growth and success of our Region is truly important to me,” says Loo. “York Region has a phenomenal history of innovation and entrepreneurship – and it’s important that we continue to build on this…”
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Richmond Hill-based United Chargers focusing on the research, development, and manufacturing of electric vehicle charging stations
The first company charger, the Grizzl-E Level 2 EVSE, was released in June 2020 and is the most affordable and robust 10 KW EVSE for home use. It quickly became one of the most popular Level 2 Home EV Charging Stations in North America because of its rugged construction and reliable performance. We are always looking to innovate the EV Charging business with continual research and development in the field.
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Vaughan headquartered cleantech Blue-Zone Technologies signs agreement with Respirair Global
Blue-zone Technologies is looking to provide creative solutions that help organizations reduce the GHG footprint for a positive impact on the environment and the communities they serve.
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Newmarket student builds business with assistance from York Region grant
The program is offered by more than 50 small business enterprise centres throughout Ontario. The York Small Business Enterprise Centre offers the program to students in the northern six York Region municipalities (Aurora, East Gwillimbury, Georgina, King, Newmarket and Whitchurch-Stouffville).
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ODL acquires Vaughan-based Tru Tech Doors
Tru Tech Doors, a high-performance steel and fiberglass door manufacturer, was founded by John Careri in 1998 and, on February 28, 2023, celebrated its 25th anniversary. John will join the ODL team as Executive Vice President and President of the Door Division. He will lead ODL’s door manufacturing and development efforts as the company expands throughout North America.
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Newmarket’s Southlake named one of top 10 hospitals in Ontario, top 25 in Canada
The ranking is based on a survey sent to 80,000 health-care professionals, who considered areas such as patient experience, patient outcomes and hospital quality metrics.
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