by investing in improvements to create the ideal facility for each business.” According to Jack, the EIC team see themselves as “supportive landlords” with the businesses there, not just landlords. By taking this approach, they have been able to welcome many new businesses to the facility, as well as many businesses looking to expand – and “we are happy to have been a part of their success.” As an example of how the team at EIC partners with incoming businesses and go above and beyond their roles as landlords, Jack cites Planet Shrimp Inc., one of their early tenants. Within the EIC, Planet Shrimp now have four rows of tanks, with six tanks on top of each other in each row, with the dimensions of each tank being 16 feet wide by 320 feet long. The team at EIC helped set all that up. “That had never been done before,” Jack recalls. “We worked with them and helped with the design and helped them make it food grade. That was one of the higher-risk early projects.” Early on, the EIC also reserved an area for brand-new innovative small businesses that were just starting out. They would charge those businesses “little-to-no-rent” for a while to help promote local innovation. They would also help them write business plans, help them set up their financing, even help them acquire necessary certifications. “We are supportive landlords,” Jack says. “We give our tenants a supportive environment. We’ve helped a lot of companies get started and we’ve helped a lot THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA
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