Recent Newsletters

On behalf of the City of Summerside Economic Development, we wanted to provide a bit of an update on Covid-19 also known as coronavirus, which may be impacting your business operations.

With the current global crisis, uncertain times and tough decisions having to be made by our business community, we want to express our collective concern and commitment to our business family.

We have officially launched our second Triage Business Retention & Expansion (BR+E) Survey. The original survey took place during November 2018. Now, just over one year later, we wish to administer the survey once more to see how things have changed.

On January 14th the Three Levels of Government and our Private Sector Partner Samsung Renewable Energy announced Summerside Sunbank Project. This $69 Million-dollar project is Summerside and Samsung SRE’s next step along the innovation journey, phase two of our long-term partnership.

As we wrap the year and look towards 2020, we can say unequivocally that 2019 has been a tremendous year for moving Summerside’s economy forward and all indications are that 2020 will see that momentum continue.

This biometrics company, led by Devi Sohanta, the Founder and CEO, has completed its first year of field testing in Summerside partnering with Community Connections, Summerside Police Services and Municipal Services.