Recent Newsletters

A popular topic lately in Summerside has been commercial space. Our 2020 Annual Report and our previous newsletter are rife with numbers and observations about how our space inventories have decreased over the past two years, like how a retail vacancy rate that was once 9% two years ago is now 3%.

IT has been a key sector for Summerside for several years now. It unofficially began in the mid-2000s when our Holman Centre was repackaged to be a centre of IT excellence.

Our Local City Council, our Hospital Foundation Board and Members of the Health Team at our Local Hospital came together to announce an important collaborative partnership to help address some shortages within our Health Care Services.

The City of Summerside PEI is an atypical municipality in North America which is steeped in a rich and robust Municipally owned traditional infrastructure, core service delivery provisions and amenities found in all jurisdictions across North America.

Despite the challenging times that we experienced in 2020, Summerside saw more companies looking to invest in both human and capital resources so as to further strengthen their ability to service their clients.

Construction is a core economic indicator, right up there with labour, number of businesses, and vacancy rates. In fact, YTD building permit values are posted at the bottom of every one of our newsletters.