Shadow Mountain Featured on Global News – Calgary

CRANBROOK BC – Global News journalist Grant Pollock explores area which has not seen this kind of growth in a century. The Kootenay Rockies are booming, with new housing projects, new hotels and plenty of golf courses.

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Within the news piece Bob Keating of Kootenay Rockies Tourism is interviewed overlooking the Shadow Mountain Development. “People are coming here to visit, and they are also coming here to live, because the pace of life is getting hectic. So they are looking for a place where life is a little more laid back, where it is beautiful, where there is recreation to spare. They are looking in their backyard – places like the Kootenay Rockies.”

“I think you are talking about a remaking of the region.” Bill Bennett, MLA East Kootenay.

Grant Pollack says that “The real key to the tourism boom aside from the Albertan economy is a new international airport.”

Alberta’s booming economy is certainly a factor in this booming economy, but it is the new Canadian Rockies International Airport that will sustain growth well into the future.

According to Philip Elchitz, Managing Director of the new airport, “We are positioning ourselves to accept flights from not only domestic long haul from Toronto, but from the US, Chicago and further east. In addition we have developed the runway in a configuration that can accept European traffic nonstop direct.”

With everything the area has to offer, it is no wonder why the Kootenay Rockies are in the spotlight.