Start or Expand Your Business

• Patillo Road Industrial Park
• Wallace Woods
• Manning Road
• County Road 22 is a mixed use corridor with land ready for development
• Belle River
• Comber
• Stoney Point
• Woodslee

Include:

• Logistics and warehousing
• Information and communication technology
• Agri-business
• Manufacturing

• Our great location puts your goods on Highway 401 or across the boarder to the United States in minutes.
• Lakeshore is focused on balanced and diverse economic growth for long-term sustainability. Your business will succeed here with our skilled, educated workforce, low taxes, competitive wage rates, excellent location, fast growing municipality, and reasonably priced housing.
• The cost of real estate, taxation, labor and other overhead is lower in Lakeshore when compared to larger urban centres in Canada and the United States. A competitive cost location for other industries.

• Lakeshore is home to over 38,000 people, an increase of over 9% from 2011. It is growing fast, now in the top 13 percentile in Canada in size. The population is highly educated with a high income.
• For major industry and employers, we have a heavy concentration of auto related supply plants, as well as tool and mold shops.
• We offer low taxes and a high quality of life. 
• Lakeshore also offers an 8 screen cinema as well as high definition virtual indoor golf complex, miniature golf with animatronics and waterfalls, beach volleyball courts with outdoor pool tables, ping pong tables, and horseshoe pits.

Our $62 million Atlas Tube Centre (multi-use recreation facility) offers:

• 3 NHL sized rinks
• Indoor track
• Meeting rooms
• Conference center
• Fully serviced public library
• Gymnasium
• Over 20 soccer fields
• Tennis courts
• Multi-use courts
• Aquatics complex with a lap pool, zero entry pool, lazy river, therapeutic pool and outdoor splash pad. 
• Outside, the facility is rounded out with basketball courts, tennis courts and a 5 km multi-use trail.

The Town recently completed all state of the art water and sanitary plants, a water tower, renovated the main street of our Belle River community, and renovated our marina and waterfront park which has been nominated for the Great Places in Canada's contest.

Furthermore, the County of Essex continues to improve and expand County Road 22 from Tecumseh to Belle River, the main 4-lane arterial highway in the region.

Situated in southern Ontario along Lake St. Clair, Lakeshore's affordable lakefront community enjoys over 35 km of waterfront, low taxes, a high quality of life and competitive labor costs. The 401 dissects Lakeshore with 5 exits within the municipality.

Whether you want to live on the water, in our urban Belle River community, upscale Russell Woods, rural communities of Woodslee or Comber, French communities of Stoney Point (Pointe aux Roches) or St. Joachim, or our unique community of Lighthouse Cove where every home has waterfront and lake access we have a home that suits your needs - affordably. 

Lakeshore's Belle River Marina is full service deep water marina with 260 seasonal and transient docks. Lakeshore boasts several other marinas along our waterfront. 

A short drive to Detroit brings you professional NHL hockey, NFL football, MLB baseball and NBA basketball. 

There are 24 courses in Essex County/Windsor region and with our weather you can golf for nine months or more. 

Business Grants and Supports

Canada Small Business Financing Program: 

• The Canada Small Business Financing Program makes it easier for small businesses to get loans from financial institutions by sharing the risk with lenders.  The maximum loan amount for a borrower is $1.15 million.
  •  Up to a maximum of $1,000,000 for term loans for any one borrower, of which no more than $500,000 can be used for purchasing leasehold improvements or improving leased property and purchasing or improving new or used equipment and of that amount, a maximum of $150,000 could be used for intangible assets and working capital costs.
  • Up to a maximum of $150,000 for lines of credit. 
  Financial institutions deliver the program and are solely responsible for approving the loan. For more information download their PDF pamphlet or click here to find a lender near you. 

Interactive Benefits Finder

Ontario Small Business Support Grant