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June 2020 – Thirty Under 30 | Invest in BC Special Report

With a mission to inform, empower, celebrate and advocate for British Columbia's current and aspiring business leaders, BCBusiness go behind the headlines and bring readers face to face with the key issues and people driving business in B.C.

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16 INVEST in BC 2 0 2 0 Official Publication of the BC Economic Development Association. In special partnership with BCBusiness. A Magnet for Global Investment From downtown office towers to Fraser Valley industrial parks, the Lower Mainland economy is firing on all cylinders LOWER MAINLAND/SOUTHWEST ▷ Abbotsford ▷ Burnaby ▷ Chilliwack ▷ Coquitlam ▷ Delta ▷ Gibsons ▷ Hope ▷ Langley ▷ Lillooet ▷ Maple Ridge ▷ Mission ▷ New Westminster ▷ North Vancouver ▷ Pitt Meadows ▷ Port Moody ▷ Richmond ▷ Sechelt ▷ Squamish ▷ Surrey ▷ Vancouver ▷ West Vancouver ▷ Whistler SHARE OF B.C. POPULATION 61% Y ou're never very far from wilderness anywhere in British Columbia, even in the province's urban southwestern corner. And here, too, you can find head offices and operations of the traditional resource and transportation industries that helped build the prosperous province we have today. What sets the Lower Mainland apart, though, is the degree to which it has generated economic momentum seemingly all its own in industries as diverse as alternative energy, life sciences, fashion design and visual effects. The information technology sector, to take just one example, has been on a tear for more than a decade. Real estate advisory firm CBRE Group recently ranked Metro Vancouver the 12th- largest IT cluster in North America, having seen a net gain of 22,300 tech workers between 2013 and 2018. American IT companies DataCloud International, Grammarly, Quora, Tigera, Tile and Tipalti announced office openings in the city over the

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