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With a booming economy and tourism numbers rising, the province of Newfoundland and Labrador has announced some major infrastructure projects. Nowhere is the growth more visible than in the capital, St. John’s, where hotel development is expected to expand with 700 new hotel rooms to be added. In addition, a ten-year $167 million capital improvement program for the St. John’s International Airport is underway, and the St. John’s Convention Centre will double in size by 2016.

We take a long-term view with less emphasis on short-term fixes and wins,” says Nora Duke, speaking about the company over which she presides. It’s a no-nonsense approach that has served Fortis Properties well, particularly through the last stretch of economic hardship that has sent many of its contemporaries tumbling — well enough, indeed, to score Company-of-the-Year honours in this year’s edition of Kostuch Media’s Pinnacle Awards.

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Now scheduled to open in 2016, the expanded St. John’s Convention Centre will make our city – already a great host city – an even better one.

Hotel development in St. John’s — relatively stagnant for years — is set to explode over the next few years, with several hundred rooms about to enter the marketplace.