Klondike Development Organization no longer delivers ongoing business and economic development services. Regional Economic Development initiatives are now lead by the North Yukon Regional Economic Action Development Initiative (READI). This is administered by Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in with co-funding from Government of Yukon and City of Dawson. Please contact those governments directly for further information.

We are now focused on facilitating the development in 2016 of a new 8-unit community-owned rental housing complex in Dawson City, to overcome a critical barrier to our growth and well-being.

We have archived our research and details of our past events here so they remain accessible for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately we can no longer maintain many of the site functions such as our popular property search tool, and these have been removed.

Thank you for visiting our site and to all of you that have used and supported our services in the past. We look forward to announcements on the housing project soon.

As of the end of May, KDO is now able to offer baseline services:

1- Enterprise facilitation service. So, if you need assistance starting a community project or business, feel free to give us a shout.

2- We’ll be getting our online resources back up to date in the coming weeks, including our Dawson City properties map.

AND…

We are very pleased to be working on a rental housing project proposal aimed at accessing Yukon Housing’s new municipal matching funding.  Stay tuned for details. For further information about this program, visit:

http://www.housing.yk.ca/pdf/municipal_matching_rental_construction_program.pdf

Klondike Development Organization invites you to join us for a renewable energy forum, right here in Dawson City:
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Location: Downtown Hotel Conference Room
Guest presenters: Energy Solutions Centre, Sow’s Ear Renewable Energy, and possibly other surprise guests as well.

The forum will include presentations from sector experts from government and private sector, as well as public discussion. We’ll find out more about useful government programs (Micro Generation, Good Energy Residential Incentives, Rural Electrification) and their potential locally, plus discuss practical solar, wind and other projects and their results in a Yukon Context.

Objectives:

Provide information about:

•  opportunities to offset their electrical consumption and/or sell excess energy they produce through renewable technologies to the grid.

•  opportunities to offset costs of constructing super-insulated structures and/or costs of renovating to higher energy standards.

•  ways to facilitate the extension of electrical services to rural residential, small load commercial and other non-industrial property outside incorporated communities

• taking steps towards:
– Reducing the long-term consumer costs of power generation
– Increasing the amount of money staying in the local economy
– Increasing self-sufficiency of the community & local economy
– Contributing to growing electrical needs of the territory

KDO partnership forums aim to gather different perspectives on a subject in one room to:

• communicate accurate information
• foster new/better understanding
• spark ideas, partnerships, action

Klondike Development invites you to attend a public forum about ‘placemaking’, Wednesday, December 10 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at Alchemy Cafe.

In planning terms, placemaking refers to the shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction, create high-quality public space, and improve a community’s quality of life. In the forum, we’ll be using a broader definition, in which placemaking simply means creating great places- towns and cities that attract people to come to live, work, play and learn.

We’ll look at research done by the Knight Foundation’s Soul of the Community project, which set out to see if there was any connection between people’s general feelings of satisfaction about where they lived and the overall productivity and economic health of a community. The study ended up drawing clear parallels between community attachment and the growth of a local economy.

Through discussions and brainstorming, we’ll take a look at how Dawson measures up in terms of things like aesthetics, social offerings and openness, and generate ideas about ways we can do placemaking and improve our already fabulous community.

Klondike Development invites you to attend a public forum about ‘placemaking’, Wednesday, December 10 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at Alchemy Cafe.

In planning terms, placemaking refers to the shaping of an environment to facilitate social interaction, create high-quality public space, and improve a community’s quality of life. In the forum, we’ll be using a broader definition, in which placemaking simply means creating great places- towns and cities that attract people to come to live, work, play and learn.

We’ll look at research done by the Knight Foundation’s Soul of the Community project, which set out to see if there was any connection between people’s general feelings of satisfaction about where they lived and the overall productivity and economic health of a community. The study ended up drawing clear parallels between community attachment and the growth of a local economy.

Through discussions and brainstorming, we’ll take a look at how Dawson measures up in terms of things like aesthetics, social offerings and openness, and generate ideas about ways we can do placemaking and improve our already fabulous community.

City of Dawson has released 6 new country residential properties for sale by lottery priced from $72,000 to $106,000. Lottery closes December 17, 2014 at 4pm.

More information is available at the City of Dawson website and on this notice City of Dawson Land Sale.

Government of Yukon Historic Sites is interested in talking to potential lessees of the Yukon Sawmill Company Office Building on Front Street, adjacent to City Hall. A presentation of the building, its heritage values, current condition, rehabilitation plans and criteria for future improvements and use was made at our Opportunities in Our Heritage Buildings partnership forum on October 20.

The presentation can be found here.

For further information contact Barbara Hogan at 867-667-5295 or barbara.hogan@gov.yk.ca

Klondike Development Organization would like to invite you to attend a public forum on Monday, October 20 from 6:30 to 9:00 PM, at the Downtown Hotel conference room.
The Forum will be on the subject of opportunities in Dawson’s heritage buildings.

We are waiting to confirm details with a couple of presenters prior to sending out an agenda, however topics to be covered include:

Case studies/lessons learned:
– Oddfellows Hall & SOVA renovations
– 256 York Street Project

Identifying potential opportunities:
Presentations or reports by building owners, on the state of the building, what would make it possible to use it, under what conditions?

– Update from Parks Canada
– Update from YG Heritage (Historic Properties Assistance Program & Yukon Sawmill Co. building)-
– Update from City of Dawson on Old Canadian Bank of Commerce Building
– Discussion of potential uses of Old Canadian Bank of Commerce building