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Wanted: dynamic businesses with a concern for quality of life !

Renowned for its entrepreneurship, the community of Val-d’Or invites you to discover the infrastructures, the resources, and the tools which are at your disposal to set up your business or expand it in a region which not only has all the necessary potential for success, but which also provides for the enjoyment of a truly outstanding quality of life.

Strengths :

  • Entrepreneurial spirit
  • The quiet and peace of wide-open spaces
  • Regional energy-development
  • More than 900 acres of industrial-zoned land
  • A vast array of opportunities to seize
  • Fiscal advantages which facilitate the setting up and financing of projects
  • A strong sense of belonging to the region
  • The proximity of hydro-electric power sources
  • Nature: only a stone’s throw away
  • A high level of bilingualism among the population
  • A unique environment for higher-education (college, university)
  • A major international airport with the 3rd longest runway in the province of Québec
  • A quality environment
  • A trained and highly-qualified workforce
  • A dynamic, hospitable, welcoming population
  • A first and second-line Hospital Centre for the region and the Northern territories
  • Available landsites in the airport-zone
  • A community which is keenly interested in its economic development
  • Substantial support from all levels of government
  • A focused, mobilized community
  • Original and high-quality welcoming structures
  • A central hub for the establishment of good relations with First-Nation communities
  • A strategic transportation crossroads (roads, airlines, railway system)
  • Excellent agricultural land
  • “Technoplex” project on the horizon
  • Establishment of a New-Economy Centre in the spring of 2001
  • Lively city pulse

Video

The images which follow have been taken from a 10-minute videotape documentary which presents many aspects of the City of Val-d’Or. To obtain the complete videotape, please contact Ms. Paule Lavoie at the Corporation de développement industriel de la région de Val-d’Or at (819) 825-5848 or by e-mail at lavoiep@ville.valdor.qc.ca.