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THE WEEKLY ANCHOR
PAGE 10 MONDAY APRIL 6, 2020
THE WEEKLY ANCHOR MONDAY JULY 13, 2020 PAGE 3
Newspaper readership is Local business owner to develop Phoenix Business Park in west Edson
“The Town does have a plan for
putting infrastructure in here, but
truly multi-platform nobody knows when that is. I'm
doing what I need to right now to
develop this section to become
saleable and usable.”
The 2019 report found that 83% of newspaper readers are accessing Iyer commended the Town for their
at least some of their newspaper content online. Interestingly, partnership and support for the
project, “[The Town] has been
however, the excellent to work with. They've
majority of these shown that they want to encourage
business in town. The Town
readers are using that employees have been incredible as
Canada
digital content to far as working through this process in Day prizes...
supplement—not a timely fashion. To come from a raw
piece of land, unzoned and un-
replace—readership subdivided, to be here six months
of a print edition of later could not happen without huge
help from everybody that works in
the newspaper. On July 6, construction began on the new Edson Chrysler Dodge dealership and the Phoenix Business Park. the Town. I want to thank them for
Pictured is developer Kamsen Iyer (middle, in white) along with family, contractors and Edson Town Council. being business-friendly and helping
In total, more than photo Cassie Kushniruk me through a difficult situation.”
“I also want to thank the residents
half (52%) of by Cassie Kushniruk hoping to attract high-traffic think we can work together towards of Edson for supporting us,” Iyer
newspaper readers With a tentative opening date of businesses to the park, such as a hotel getting some investment happening continued. “We've had a number of
people calling us and telling us that
or mall-type businesses. “It can be
in the area.”
access newspaper March 31, 2020, the Phoenix some industrial, but it's zoned for Iyer stated that the tentative we believe in you and we know you
content from both Business Park will be the first business light industrial at this opening date for the Phoenix can do it. They've supported us with
their business, patronage, and
print and online development to take place in the west point,” he said. Business Park is March 31, 2020, friendship, and it's been excellent. It's
end of Edson in years.
At the June 23 Committee of the
depending on weather. “We've got
sources. Back in December of 2019, the Whole meeting, Edson Town Council Superior Buildings out of Edmonton given us the confidence to go out
Edson Chrysler Dodge dealership endorsed a Tax Rate Incentive Bylaw doing the build and Rock Hard there and lay out millions of dollars
was the victim of arson, resulting in for non-residential properties, which Contractors who is the civil at a time when we probably
All platforms (print, desktop/laptop computer, phone and tablet) the destruction of the building and Iyer believes will help attract contractor, and they're starting right shouldn't. We're very happy to call
continue to be used across demographics to access newspaper the layoff of 33 staff. businesses to the Phoenix Business now. We hope to have the dealership Edson home.”
Mayor Zahara said, “The
Around January of this year, Edson
Park. Town of Edson Mayor Kevin
content. Most print reading happens early in the day, while digital Chrysler Dodge owner Kamsen Iyer Zahara noted, “There are only three portion paved, ready, and open for development of the west end of
business March 31 of next year.”
reading is more consistent from morning to night. started looking around Town to other rural municipalities in Alberta According to Iyer, the future Edson has been a topic of discussion
secure a new location for the that have developed a Tax Incentive portion of the project will begin for more than a decade and the
dealership. “My manufacturer told Bylaw to our knowledge, and we are when the Town or the developer buys Phoenix Business Park is the first
The research specifically looked at the newspaper reading habits of me I couldn't build on the same lot the first rural municipality with a the remaining land. “Depending on major development to occur in the
younger Canadians. 88% of Millennials read newspapers weekly, because it was too small, so I had to multi-year program. We expect the who buys it and what they do with it, area in a long time. It is certainly
great news for the community.”
find a bigger lot, which forced me to
that all remains to be seen,” he said.
bylaw to be passed later this month.”
accessing newspaper content primarily through their mobile phones. start looking around,” he said. Zahara added that the province
Iyer stated that he had been looking passed Bill 7 last spring, which
at the lot adjacent to the dealership allows municipalities to incentivize
for many years, but “it wasn't development of non-residential
feasible with the off-site levies and properties. “While the bylaw has not
all kinds of other things”. yet been formally passed, it will
However, being able to work with allow for 100% municipal tax Edson Funeral Home
the landowner and the Town of exemption for the first two years on a
Edson allowed Iyer to purchase the property that has had a 25%
property in order to start developing improvement in assessment due to
Foothills Memorial Chapel and Crematorium
what will be called the Phoenix development on the property,” Foothills Memorial Chapel and Crematorium
Edson Clinic up and running, Business Park. Zahara explained. PO Box 6358, 5040 6th Ave., Edson, AB T7E 1T8
A Caring Part of the Caring Group Corp.
A Caring Part of the Caring Group Corp.
PO Box 6358, 5040 6th Ave., Edson, AB T7E 1T8
Additionally, Zahara noted that
“We decided to name it 'Phoenix
please need to resume service. Business Park' because we got burnt although offsite levies were 780-723-3575
780-723-3575
down and that forced us here, and
introduced to Edson several years
July 22, August 26, September like a phoenix rising from the ashes, ago to help pay for needed www.foothillsmemorialchapel.com
www.foothillsmemorialchapel.com
23, October 28, November 25 we had to figure out what to do,” Iyer infrastructure, many who own and/or You decide
explained.
develop projects have “felt offsite
At 27-28 acres, Iyer stated that the
and Temporary For December Phoenix Business Park will include levies are a roadblock to the way of W
We're still here for you,e're still here for you,
development”. “This sentiment is
will be the 15th. So Every fourth 11 lots for up to 11 different especially true on the west end of 2 bedroom fully furnished,
Edson, which is largely undeveloped
businesses, averaging two to two-
still offering our
Wednesday of the month. Please and-a-half acres in size. “What we're and doesn't have much in terms of completely outfitted with still offering our
infrastructure,” he said.“Council and
doing is putting in infrastructure now
send proof so I can proof read so that we can service those lots, and Administration reviewed the issue of everything you need. Just personalized service.
personalized service.
then roughing in some roads,” Iyer
offsite levies at Strategic Planning
and then the tear sheet there said. “We'll be stripping the whole 27 and expect a formal resolution to
Please call for
come to Council soon.”
acres back, putting the Edson
after. Chrysler dealership as an anchor Although Iyer understands that this bring your personal items Please call for
tenant in the Phoenix Business Park may not be the best time to start a
an appointment.
in the corner, and then putting these project like this with regards to and move in. an appointment.
lots up for sale.” COVID-19 and the struggling
“[This project] is a big deal for economy, “we've been forced into it
Edson because just this project alone because of an arson that put us in a $1600 a month
on this corner is going to be between situation where we had to make some
$7 and $9 million at a time when moves”. “It wasn't something I would Traditional Funeral Services,
FOR RENT there's not a lot of investment in the have done if I had the choice,” he or without furnishings Graveside Services and
FOR RENT
West Yellowhead area, specifically
said. “We got knocked down as a
NEW MOBILE
NEW MOBILE Edson,” said Iyer. “To spend that business and my staff wanted to fight $1195 a month Cremation Options with a Crematorium
amount, and then on top of that, to
back and the only way to do that is
open up all of these spots where try to figure out how we can make on site in Edson.
businesses can come, is a pretty big the most out of a bad situation. It's a Cemetery Monuments.
2 bedroom, complete deal.” gamble and a risk on my part, but CALL LEXIE 780-723-3110 We also offer Prearrangement Plans.
2 bedroom, complete
As the Phoenix Business Park will
with the help of the Town and the
with new furnishings.
with new furnishings. be located along Highway 16, Iyer is County and the province, ultimately I *Some conditions apply We are a Patient-Centered and Caring Community Pharmacy
Our Commitment Is To You.
Our Commitment Is To You. Locally Owned, Locally Operated and Locally Committed
$1,800 a month
$1,800 a month
Due to COVID 19 there is a growing need for self isolation. We are offering free delivery of
$1,800 Security Deposit
$1,800 Security Deposit medications to your doorstep during this period. We can access you over the phone and prescribe
and renew medications. Avoid unnecessary visits to hospitals and clinics and stay healthy.
Give us a call today 780-725-0282
Address: 4924 – 4 Avenue, Edson, AB (Just beside Subway) Hours: Monday to Friday: 9am - 7pm
Owners: Sabia Saincher and Himmat Panwar Weekends and Holidays: 10am - 3pm
June 29: All Edson residents
are encouraged to show off
their amazing Canadian and
family pride by decorating
their front yard, house or
balcony for Canada Day. The
first 150 entrants will be
given a great Canada Day
gift bag and the winner in
each category will win a
grand prize of $250. Judging
will take place on June 29
and 30 and prizes will be
announced on July 1.
No hatred, discrimination, or political
views, and please keep your
decorations family-friendly. Register
your entry by Monday, June 22 at
surveymonkey.com/r/V3JL6D5.
Check News Canada
THE WEEKLY ANCHOR
PAGE 10 MONDAY APRIL 6, 2020
THE WEEKLY ANCHOR MONDAY JULY 13, 2020 PAGE 3
Newspaper readership is Local business owner to develop Phoenix Business Park in west Edson
“The Town does have a plan for
putting infrastructure in here, but
truly multi-platform nobody knows when that is. I'm
doing what I need to right now to
develop this section to become
saleable and usable.”
The 2019 report found that 83% of newspaper readers are accessing Iyer commended the Town for their
at least some of their newspaper content online. Interestingly, partnership and support for the
project, “[The Town] has been
however, the excellent to work with. They've
majority of these shown that they want to encourage
business in town. The Town
readers are using that employees have been incredible as
Canada
digital content to far as working through this process in Day prizes...
supplement—not a timely fashion. To come from a raw
piece of land, unzoned and un-
replace—readership subdivided, to be here six months
of a print edition of later could not happen without huge
help from everybody that works in
the newspaper. On July 6, construction began on the new Edson Chrysler Dodge dealership and the Phoenix Business Park. the Town. I want to thank them for
Pictured is developer Kamsen Iyer (middle, in white) along with family, contractors and Edson Town Council. being business-friendly and helping
In total, more than photo Cassie Kushniruk me through a difficult situation.”
“I also want to thank the residents
half (52%) of by Cassie Kushniruk hoping to attract high-traffic think we can work together towards of Edson for supporting us,” Iyer
newspaper readers With a tentative opening date of businesses to the park, such as a hotel getting some investment happening continued. “We've had a number of
people calling us and telling us that
or mall-type businesses. “It can be
in the area.”
access newspaper March 31, 2020, the Phoenix some industrial, but it's zoned for Iyer stated that the tentative we believe in you and we know you
content from both Business Park will be the first business light industrial at this opening date for the Phoenix can do it. They've supported us with
their business, patronage, and
print and online development to take place in the west point,” he said. Business Park is March 31, 2020, friendship, and it's been excellent. It's
end of Edson in years.
At the June 23 Committee of the
depending on weather. “We've got
sources. Back in December of 2019, the Whole meeting, Edson Town Council Superior Buildings out of Edmonton given us the confidence to go out
Edson Chrysler Dodge dealership endorsed a Tax Rate Incentive Bylaw doing the build and Rock Hard there and lay out millions of dollars
was the victim of arson, resulting in for non-residential properties, which Contractors who is the civil at a time when we probably
All platforms (print, desktop/laptop computer, phone and tablet) the destruction of the building and Iyer believes will help attract contractor, and they're starting right shouldn't. We're very happy to call
continue to be used across demographics to access newspaper the layoff of 33 staff. businesses to the Phoenix Business now. We hope to have the dealership Edson home.”
Mayor Zahara said, “The
Around January of this year, Edson
Park. Town of Edson Mayor Kevin
content. Most print reading happens early in the day, while digital Chrysler Dodge owner Kamsen Iyer Zahara noted, “There are only three portion paved, ready, and open for development of the west end of
business March 31 of next year.”
reading is more consistent from morning to night. started looking around Town to other rural municipalities in Alberta According to Iyer, the future Edson has been a topic of discussion
secure a new location for the that have developed a Tax Incentive portion of the project will begin for more than a decade and the
dealership. “My manufacturer told Bylaw to our knowledge, and we are when the Town or the developer buys Phoenix Business Park is the first
The research specifically looked at the newspaper reading habits of me I couldn't build on the same lot the first rural municipality with a the remaining land. “Depending on major development to occur in the
younger Canadians. 88% of Millennials read newspapers weekly, because it was too small, so I had to multi-year program. We expect the who buys it and what they do with it, area in a long time. It is certainly
great news for the community.”
find a bigger lot, which forced me to
that all remains to be seen,” he said.
bylaw to be passed later this month.”
accessing newspaper content primarily through their mobile phones. start looking around,” he said. Zahara added that the province
Iyer stated that he had been looking passed Bill 7 last spring, which
at the lot adjacent to the dealership allows municipalities to incentivize
for many years, but “it wasn't development of non-residential
feasible with the off-site levies and properties. “While the bylaw has not
all kinds of other things”. yet been formally passed, it will
However, being able to work with allow for 100% municipal tax Edson Funeral Home
the landowner and the Town of exemption for the first two years on a
Edson allowed Iyer to purchase the property that has had a 25%
property in order to start developing improvement in assessment due to
Foothills Memorial Chapel and Crematorium
what will be called the Phoenix development on the property,” Foothills Memorial Chapel and Crematorium
Edson Clinic up and running, Business Park. Zahara explained. PO Box 6358, 5040 6th Ave., Edson, AB T7E 1T8
A Caring Part of the Caring Group Corp.
A Caring Part of the Caring Group Corp.
PO Box 6358, 5040 6th Ave., Edson, AB T7E 1T8
Additionally, Zahara noted that
“We decided to name it 'Phoenix
please need to resume service. Business Park' because we got burnt although offsite levies were 780-723-3575
780-723-3575
down and that forced us here, and
introduced to Edson several years
July 22, August 26, September like a phoenix rising from the ashes, ago to help pay for needed www.foothillsmemorialchapel.com
www.foothillsmemorialchapel.com
23, October 28, November 25 we had to figure out what to do,” Iyer infrastructure, many who own and/or You decide
explained.
develop projects have “felt offsite
At 27-28 acres, Iyer stated that the
and Temporary For December Phoenix Business Park will include levies are a roadblock to the way of W
We're still here for you,e're still here for you,
development”. “This sentiment is
will be the 15th. So Every fourth 11 lots for up to 11 different especially true on the west end of 2 bedroom fully furnished,
Edson, which is largely undeveloped
businesses, averaging two to two-
still offering our
Wednesday of the month. Please and-a-half acres in size. “What we're and doesn't have much in terms of completely outfitted with still offering our
infrastructure,” he said.“Council and
doing is putting in infrastructure now
send proof so I can proof read so that we can service those lots, and Administration reviewed the issue of everything you need. Just personalized service.
personalized service.
then roughing in some roads,” Iyer
offsite levies at Strategic Planning
and then the tear sheet there said. “We'll be stripping the whole 27 and expect a formal resolution to
Please call for
come to Council soon.”
acres back, putting the Edson
after. Chrysler dealership as an anchor Although Iyer understands that this bring your personal items Please call for
tenant in the Phoenix Business Park may not be the best time to start a
an appointment.
in the corner, and then putting these project like this with regards to and move in. an appointment.
lots up for sale.” COVID-19 and the struggling
“[This project] is a big deal for economy, “we've been forced into it
Edson because just this project alone because of an arson that put us in a $1600 a month
on this corner is going to be between situation where we had to make some
$7 and $9 million at a time when moves”. “It wasn't something I would Traditional Funeral Services,
FOR RENT there's not a lot of investment in the have done if I had the choice,” he or without furnishings Graveside Services and
FOR RENT
West Yellowhead area, specifically
said. “We got knocked down as a
NEW MOBILE
NEW MOBILE Edson,” said Iyer. “To spend that business and my staff wanted to fight $1195 a month Cremation Options with a Crematorium
amount, and then on top of that, to
back and the only way to do that is
open up all of these spots where try to figure out how we can make on site in Edson.
businesses can come, is a pretty big the most out of a bad situation. It's a Cemetery Monuments.
2 bedroom, complete deal.” gamble and a risk on my part, but CALL LEXIE 780-723-3110 We also offer Prearrangement Plans.
2 bedroom, complete
As the Phoenix Business Park will
with the help of the Town and the
with new furnishings.
with new furnishings. be located along Highway 16, Iyer is County and the province, ultimately I *Some conditions apply We are a Patient-Centered and Caring Community Pharmacy
Our Commitment Is To You.
Our Commitment Is To You. Locally Owned, Locally Operated and Locally Committed
$1,800 a month
$1,800 a month
Due to COVID 19 there is a growing need for self isolation. We are offering free delivery of
$1,800 Security Deposit
$1,800 Security Deposit medications to your doorstep during this period. We can access you over the phone and prescribe
and renew medications. Avoid unnecessary visits to hospitals and clinics and stay healthy.
Give us a call today 780-725-0282
Address: 4924 – 4 Avenue, Edson, AB (Just beside Subway) Hours: Monday to Friday: 9am - 7pm
Owners: Sabia Saincher and Himmat Panwar Weekends and Holidays: 10am - 3pm
June 29: All Edson residents
are encouraged to show off
their amazing Canadian and
family pride by decorating
their front yard, house or
balcony for Canada Day. The
first 150 entrants will be
given a great Canada Day
gift bag and the winner in
each category will win a
grand prize of $250. Judging
will take place on June 29
and 30 and prizes will be
announced on July 1.
No hatred, discrimination, or political
views, and please keep your
decorations family-friendly. Register
your entry by Monday, June 22 at
surveymonkey.com/r/V3JL6D5.
