Last week the City of Thompson announced the end of operations for Thompson Unlimited as of July 1st.

Thompson Unlimited began in 2002 under the name Thompson Community Development Corporation, tasked with promoting ways to diversify the economy of the city.

On June 22nd Thompson Unlimited submitted a formal letter to the City indicating that the organization was experiencing challenges and felt it was in the community’s best interest to turn the economic development portfolio over to the City.  

In its fourteen years of operation Thompson Unlimited successfully promoted Thompson as a regional service center, popular site for winter weather testing and a tourist destination.   

The City of Thompson will now be tasked with adapting the Economic Development Action Plan developed by the Thompson Economic Diversification Work Group (TEDWG) in April 2013.   

Mayor Dennis Fenske commented that “Council will undertake a process to develop the next steps in guiding the City’s economic development function to ensure that we are in a position to take advantage of unlimited opportunities to grow our community.”