Posts in category Project Overviews

City of Timmins Aquatic Centre Feasibility Study

The City of Timmins is undertaking a Feasibility Study for a new Aquatic Centre in Timmins! Sierra Planning Management along with partner CS&P Architects has been retained by the City of Timmins to develop the Aquatic Centre Feasibility Study.

City Beautification

About City Beautification The Beautification Project is not just about planting flowers downtown; it’s about coordinating a strategic approach to improving facades, infrastructure and amenities throughout our community. City beautification not only increases the likelihood of tourism, but also visitor satisfaction and community pride. An example of a city beautification program is the “one block […]

Local Benefit Agreements

About Local Benefit Agreements Without businesses, it would be hard to have a thriving community, but without a healthy, prosperous community, it’s hard to make a business successful. Economists and corporations all over the world are realizing that business has an important role in community development. By giving back to the community, businesses establish relationships […]

Business Development

About Business Development Business development is essential for a diversified, sustainable economy. It contributes to quality of life by providing more amenities and sources of entertainment. Business development includes building our local business sector and attracting new business to the city, also called  Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The word “foreign” doesn’t necessarily mean bringing in businesses […]

Business Capacity Modules

About Business Capacity Modules One of the most successful types of economic development is focusing on helping local businesses become bigger businesses. This approach is sometimes called “economic gardening.” By providing advice, support and information to business people, economic development teams can facilitate more exporting and diversification, which makes our economy more sustainable. A Business […]

Buy Local Campaign

About the Buy Local Campaign One of the ways to diversify the Timmins economy is to buy local. Buying local entails purchasing goods and services from businesses and companies that employ local people and use local products. Buying local will ensure that money spent in the community stays in the community and is used to […]

Communications Campaign

About the Communications Campaign During the public consultations, participants expressed a need for more dialogue with the City and other community organizations. Many felt that they did not know where to look for accurate, up-to-date information, or they had to look in too many different places to get it. The forest fire situation that affected […]

Community Calendar

About the Community Calendar  This project is now completed. In 2012, the Timmins Chamber of Commerce completed work on a central community calendar. A community calendar is a single place where community members and organizations can post and/or look up events. The Timmins Community Calendar is an up-to-date web-based calendar that provides information on events […]

Community Foundation

About the Community Foundation Community foundations are charities that receive gifts from generous local citizens. These gifts are held forever as capital in an endowment, with the interest distributed back into the community as annual grants to deserving local charities, community groups and leadership initiatives. In pure sustainable models the principal remains untouched. Project Progress […]

Aboriginal Partnerships

About Aboriginal Partnerships The Aboriginal people who first called this region “home” bring important social, cultural and environmental perspectives to our identity as a community. Team 2020 recognizes the value of these Aboriginal perspectives. The Aboriginal Partnerships project aims to foster the development of positive and productive collaborations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal organizations, especially related […]