Corporate
We build places that improve our home and enrich our lives.
We leverage our projects and programs as tools to bring people together in pursuit of keeping Nova Scotians healthy, connected, and thriving no matter where they live. A thriving community is a powerful thing, and we’re doing our part to help communities reach their full potential by stewarding projects that enhance quality of life and community well-being, build local pride and momentum, and grow our economy.
Great places are accessible and connected.
A connected Nova Scotia is a thriving Nova Scotia. We are collaborating with communities across Nova Scotia to support rural growth through infrastructure and property development focused on supporting community and economic impact. We’re working to deliver access to high-speed internet to every household, and to enable more businesses to start and scale up, and to provide access to the connections for Nova Scotians to thrive, no matter where they live.
The remarkable intricacy and liveliness of downtown can never be created by the abstract logic of a few men. Downtown has had the capability of providing something for everybody only because it has been created by everybody.
Jane Jacobs
Great places are built for community first.
We develop and steward sustainable, year-round destinations for people, with people. When we invest in building places for people (especially locals), the outcomes are magnetic and sustainable places that create the conditions for community and commerce to thrive and investment to flow. And—perhaps most importantly—these places contribute to enhanced quality of life for everyone.
These intensely local partnerships with community create new avenues for growth, while leveraging our strength of place and community to attract people to Nova Scotia—to visit, to live, to work, to invest, and to participate.
$317.3
MILLION
in direct and spinoff
Gross Domestic Product
5,094
PERSON-YEARS
in direct and spinoff
employment
$238
MILLION
in direct and spinoff
household income
$25.8
MILLION
in direct and spinoff provincial
government tax revenue
Source: Group ATN Consulting (2018). Economic Impact of Develop Nova Scotia’s Approach to Waterfront Development.
Great places build on our collective strengths and natural assets.
Working waterfronts work hard for Nova Scotia. They are critical pieces of economic infrastructure—and it’s no secret that a rising tide lifts all boats! Creating the conditions for innovation is key to Nova Scotia’s economic growth and prosperity. We do our part to foster this growth through strategic partnerships, physical infrastructure, and platforms for business—but it takes a village.
We partner with industry, community, and all levels of government to steward spaces and develop sustainable infrastructure that support the growth of multiple businesses across high-potential ocean sectors. And, along the way, our collective efforts position Nova Scotia as a world leader in both ocean technology and sustainable development.
No place in Nova Scotia
is more than
67km
from the ocean
Ocean industries
employ over
35,000
Nova Scotian
workers
Over
300
oceansector
businesses
$4.5
BILLION
annual revenue for
ocean-related industries
(including spin-off)
Source: Group ATN Consulting (2018). Economic Impact of Develop Nova Scotia’s Approach to Waterfront Development.
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