Developed and co-authored the City of Markham’s Economic Development and Culture Strategy in 2023.
Markham is More: Markham’s Economic Development and Culture Strategy (2023 to 2027) provides an important roadmap to guide the City and its collaboration with community partners to grow Markham’s economy on a foundation of arts, culture, and innovation.
The City took a unique approach to developing the Strategy. While most municipalities undertake separate strategies – one for economic development and one for culture, the approach taken by Markham was to merge them into one overall strategy. This approach recognized the interdependent role that arts and culture play in creating the quality of life that is necessary to attract talent to a community.
As home to Canada’s largest semiconductor cluster, a new urban downtown that will welcome York University’s new campus and more than 170,000 residents, and plans to create the Markham Innovation Exchange (MiX) with its 1,900 acres of employment lands dedicated to next-generation hardware manufacturing, Markham is witnessing major advancements that will continue to transform the community.
The Strategy builds on this momentum with five strategic goals and detailed action plans focused on growing Markham’s economy through business attraction, growing the city’s innovation ecosystem, nurturing the growth of new companies, investing in arts and culture, while expanding the creative talent pipeline.
Taken together, Markham’s new Economic Development and Culture Strategy provides a framework catalyzing the City’s collaboration with its community partners on realizing Markham’s economic potential.
View the Strategy.