Business is Picking Up!

Pictured here is a new business located on Todd Road in Georgetown in the former BASF building.

Yesterday I, along with Mayor Bonnette and our Economic Development Officer, Doug Penrice, met with the owners of Turris. This was part of our regular program of visits to businesses that is intended to increase our understanding of what business needs to be successful in Halton Hills.

Turris recently relocated to Georgetown from the airport area as it needed to expand and it needed outdoor storage.

The partners are John Wahba and Rick Sullivan, both engineers with decades of experience in the field of steel fabrication and communication towers.

It was interesting to learn that they are concentrating on communication towers where the tower is owned by them, as a neutral 3rd party, and communication companies can rent space from them. In this way more than one company can be located on a tower thus reducing significantly the number of towers required. This addresses an issue that municipalities everywhere are facing - where to put more and more towers. There are now 6 national communication companies are wanting to create a grid of towers. You have only to look at the top of our few highrise buildings to see that these convenient spaces are now filled to capacity.

Another innovation is that their towers have been improved to the point where they often don't look like communication towers. In some cases they are disguised as church spires or flag poles.

In the future we will undoubtedly be working with Turris in our own municipality as we try to keep up with the demand for wireless communications while trying to reduce the visual impact on our Town.