toba and into the U.S. Our airport also has airlift capacity to reach northern mining communities.” Currently positioned as a food processing centre for east-central Saskatchewan with the two canola oil crush- ing plans, oat and flaxseed processing plants and a meat processing plant, Yorkton is also home to 20 manufactur- ing businesses and more than 1,000 other small busi- nesses. Shaw says since 2010, Yorkton has added more than $280 million in building value. Maloney says Yorkton is benefitting from Saskatchewan's overall growth and is working closely with consultants looking at current demands and identi- fying gaps and needs. “Our Economic Development Committee represents some of our bigger interests in the city and we are in marketing mode now, looking to the future.” He says there is also work taking place unofficially now with other local cities and towns and he hopes a for- mal economic development association will be formed by 2016. He indicates that health care and education build com- munities, and that the agriculture and mining sectors have been at Yorkton's foundation, so these areas will likely be part of the community's future development focus. “Even now our businesses reach international clients with the goods and services they provide,” says Shaw. “We are a global community looking outwardly to con- tinue to tap into new business and new opportunities.” For more information, visit www.yorkton.ca. The Canadian Design and Construction Report — Fall 2014 – 23