{"id":6000,"date":"2015-06-30T15:58:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T15:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newscoverage.org\/?p=6000"},"modified":"2015-06-30T15:58:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T15:58:46","slug":"laval-consolidates-economic-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2015\/06\/30\/laval-consolidates-economic-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Laval consolidates economic development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storyholder\">\n<p><strong>By Tracey Arial<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"www.thesuburban.com\">www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Laval\u2019s Mayor Marc Demers introduced his new economic development structure last week.<\/p>\n<p>Led by new city employee Marc Tremblay, the team consolidates all the operations once handled by the local economic development organization <em>(Centre local de d\u00e9veloppement<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0CLD), the regional elected officials body (CRE) and the para-municipal organization, Laval Technopole into the civil service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mandate of this new team will be to simplify and accelerate business investment files in Laval, to efficiently support and encourage entrepreneurship, and to make everything easy for the business sector,\u201d said Demers, as he introduced his new economic structure on June 18.<\/p>\n<p>To lead the new team, Laval\u2019s executive committee hired outsider Marc Tremblay. Tremblay has 25 years of private and community leadership, most recently with the <em>Groupe Juste pour rire<\/em>\u00a0comedy festival and the <em>Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 du Palais des congr\u00e8s de Montr\u00e9al <\/em>convention centre. He started his new post at the end of April, but he\u2019s already identified his key mandate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaval is determined to become the number two centre for growth in Quebec,\u201d said Tremblay. \u201cOur vision is to become the number two city in terms of gross national product, employment and overall number of companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To make that happen, Tremblay plans to operate using a client relationship manager system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll potential clients will be taken care of by an account manager,\u201d he said. \u201cThat person will identify all the requirements of the project to get it online. We will explain to our client what they have to go through to establish in the city and the client will not have to go through many different layers. We are going to proactively think about every step he\u2019s going to go through and we\u2019re going to collaborate with other services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Changing the civil service culture to make that happen will depend on getting the support of all the employees. How agreeable they\u2019ll be when they\u2019re positions are in flux is still to be seen. Tremblay says his intention is to ensure that full-time permanent employees of the three former economic entities be incorporated into the civil service, but that can only happen if enough people retire or finish out their contracts and leave.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Tremblay\u2019s management team is focussing on restructuring the organization under five distinct economic clusters:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Biotechnology and pharmacology;<br \/>\n\u2022 Information technology;<br \/>\n\u2022 Food and agriculture;<br \/>\n\u2022 Tourism and major attractions; and<br \/>\n\u2022 Service enterprises (insurance, finance, engineering).<\/p>\n<p>The clusters are similar to those under which Laval Technopole functioned, although a sixth \u201cindustrial\u201d cluster has been removed.<\/p>\n<p>Tremblay says that he\u2019s considering adding three additional clusters: aerospace, logistics and large retail centres with entertainment. The key to turning them into clusters instead of major sectors within the other clusters will be attracting large-scale anchor businesses to substantiate each cluster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was the CEO of Six Flags Montreal and the Montreal Convention Centre, so there are many large scale tourism infrastructures that I have my eyes on,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not saying that we are going to bring Universal Studios to Laval, but we can dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Marc-Tremblay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6001\" src=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Marc-Tremblay.jpg\" alt=\"Marc Tremblay\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Marc-Tremblay.jpg 175w, https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Marc-Tremblay-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Marc Tremblay<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<article class=\"blockelement clearfix\"><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tracey Arial www.thesuburban.com Laval\u2019s Mayor Marc Demers introduced his new economic development structure last week. 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