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SPECIAL ADVERTISING FEATURE
WHEATLAND COUNTY
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SOUTHERN ALBERTA’S
INDUSTRIAL HEART
Only minutes from the City of Calgary, our vast landscape
provides space for you to grow
CONVENIENT LOGISTICS AND
TRANSPORTATION
Within commuting distance from the City of
Calgary and the Calgary International Airport,
Wheatland County offers direct highway and
rail access.
LOW LAND COSTS
With two established industrial areas,
Wheatland has abundant room for you to grow!
Wheatland County has some of the lowest
industrial land costs in the Calgary area.
There are two industrial areas:
• Origin Business Park is located on Highway
1, only 13 minutes from the City of Calgary.
• The Goldfinch industrial area (heavy
industrial) is located off Highway 24. A CP
Rail line runs through Goldfinch providing
continent-wide shipping.
LOW TAX RATE AND
GENEROUS INCENTIVES
With a generous municipal incentive and one of
the lowest tax rates in Alberta, Wheatland is the
ideal place to grow your business!
We offer a municipal tax incentive, with
a 40 per cent reduction in municipal non-
residential tax for eligible investors.
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STRONG GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
FOR DEVELOPMENT
Our council welcomes investment! A key
pillar of our strategic plan is attracting
development that contributes to our tax
base, creates high-value jobs and diversifies
the local economy.
AGRIBUSINESS
Home to over 800 farms, Wheatland
County has the feedstock to accommodate
value-added processors. We also have a
well-developed value chain and companies
such as Cargill, Nutrien, Richardson
Pioneer, Paterson Grain, Viterra and
Canada Malting are represented.
UTILITIES
We have abundant natural gas, electrical grid
capacity, broadband connectivity (some of the
fastest speeds in Canada coming in 2024!)
and access to water.
THRIVING ENERGY INDUSTRY
Our vision is to become the new energy and
petrochemical hub for the Calgary region!
We are a major natural gas producer and
are diversifying into new energy (sustainable
EXCITING NEW
DEVELOPMENTS
• CGC Inc. is in the process
of constructing a wallboard
manufacturing plant.
• De Havilland Canada
is in the process of
constructing an aircraft
manufacturing centre
called “De Havilland Field”.
• Rocky Mountain Clean
Fuels constructed a GTL
plant with a capacity of
20 million liters/year of
synthetic diesel fuel.
• Expander Energy has
announced a biomass
gasifier facility that will
convert construction wood
waste into 8 million liters/
year of renewable syngas.
aviation fuels, hydrogen, renewable
natural gas and synthetic fuels).
With approximately 8,000 oil and
gas wells, we have abundant
feedstock for downstream activities.
ACCESS TO LABOUR
With Wheatland’s location and
convenient highway linkages you
have access to a regional labour
pool of over 800,000!
ESTABLISHED INDUSTRIAL
CLUSTER
Wheatland is experiencing an
industrial revolution! Find out why
companies like Nutrien, Orica, Stella
Jones, CGC Inc. and De Havilland
Canada call us home.
ABUNDANT
OPPORTUNITIES
• Manufacturing
• Aerospace
• Energy and petrochemicals
• Food processing
“Start growing
your business!”
Learn more:
investwc.ca