Business and local economy
Calgary's Comeback Business and Local Economy
Reducing barriers, time and cost to enable your business success and make Calgary Canada's most business friendly city.
Start and maintain your business
Visit myBusiness to learn how to:
- Start and open a business
- Set up a business in the city centre
- Find your land use district
- Identify the permits your business needs
- Prepare your business for an emergency
We can help
- Live chat (available on this page)
- Contact us through 311 - online form, 311 app, or call 311.
- Visit one of our business service experts (3rd Floor, 800 Macleod Trail S.E.)
Working together to make Calgary more business friendly
- Council's Business Advisory Committee is getting to the heart of issues to improve Calgary’s business environment.
- Our Living Labs can help your business research and test new ideas.
- We’re making improvements to better support you.
- We're encouraging Calgarians to Buy Local to support our local businesses and economy.
- We conduct ongoing research with businesses to better understand the outlook and viewpoint of the business community. If you are a business owner, leader or manager, join our online business research panel, Business Perspectives, to share your ideas. Contact research@calgary.ca to join.