At the October 18 Council Meeting, the City of Surrey approved a corporate report tasking staff with the duty to implement reduced permitting timelines. To minimize the wait time between applying and receiving a building or rezoning permit, Surrey City Council has approved a Guaranteed Permitting Timeline.“The Surrey Board of Trade applauds the City…
Monthly archive for October 2021
Surrey Council has approved a corporate report which will extend the Parking to Patio program until October 31, 2022. The corporate report originally said the extension was only to June 2022, but today a media release from the City of Surrey indicated an extension to October 31, 2022. This allows for businesses to continue to…
-Surrey Board of Trade will announced winners in 8 award categoriesOn Thursday, November 4, 2021, the Surrey Board of Trade will recognize eight winners at the 23rd Annual Surrey Business Excellence Awards – the Resiliency Edition, presented by Grant Thornton LLP and TD Bank, including the coveted Surrey Business Person of the Year Award.…
The Surrey Board of Trade applauds the City of Surrey in its development of a music city strategy.“As we saw the movement of music artists and related businesses from Vancouver to Surrey and the South Fraser economic region due to gentrification, and as Surrey is going to be the largest city in BC, the…
–Negative PCR Tests, Documentation Requirements, Rising US Cases and Vaccination RecordsToday, the United States announced it will be reopening the Canada and Mexico land borders for vaccinated travelers on a date to be announced in November. Canada reopened its US land borders in August.“This comes as a great relief for the economies of…
Surrey, BC – The Surrey Board of Trade announced the winners of the 5th Surrey Arts & Business Awards, presented by Scotiabank, at a live digital event on October 12 which featured BC's Parliamentary Secretary for Arts and Film (and JUNO Award-nominated recording artist), Bob D'Eith, Prem Gill, CEO of Creative BC and Keely Rammage-Scott of Face…
© A Master MediaOn October 8 at 9 am, the Surrey Board of Trade will be speaking in favour of Surrey’s Campbell Heights South Employment Lands application at the Metro Vancouver Regional Planning Committee meeting.“The proposed development of South Campbell Heights in Surrey is important to the Metro Vancouver region because of industrial…
SURREY, BC – In partnership with Progressive Intercultural Community Services (PICS) and Western Community College, the Surrey Board of Trade has received funding provided by the Government of Canada through the Canada-British Columbia Workforce Development Agreement in the amount of $256,519.00.“The Surrey Board of Trade is pleased to have received this funding from the…
