Congratulations Box Springs Business Park!

Friday November 30^th at 8:00 marks the grand opening of Costco at the Box Springs Business Park. While the opening of another ‘box store’ may not be significant to some, it is in my opinion a small piece of a much larger puzzle yet to be completed, that will only serve, to make Medicine Hat a better place to live and do business. For that Box Springs Business Park deserves to be congratulated.

Leadership, vision, and passion are just some of the adjectives that could be used to describe Spencer Lacey, John Hashem, Darren Skovmose, Albert Stark, and Warren Stark who are the five partners involved in BSBP. Years ago they took it upon themselves to purchase the land that today is known as BSBP. They knew in their hearts and in their minds that Medicine Hat is a great city and proceeded to go out and attract new corporations to Medicine Hat.

What is truly amazing, is the entire process they had to go through to get to this stage. It was not a simple transaction of purchasing land, finding a buyer and reselling it. The land had no services; roads, sewer, gas, electricity, nothing. In order to make this land commercially viable the group had to make significant investments to get the land to the point where it is usable and sellable.

The BSBP group had to have unwavering faith in this community that their large personal investments would be not go up in smoke and that they could convince other corporations what most of us already know, Medicine Hat is a fantastic city. In this case they had to convince a company that does 60 billion a year in sales that Medicine Hat is a place they needed to be doing business.

I am proud and grateful that that this group of entrepreneurs has the necessary fortitude and determination to reach their goals and make Medicine Hat a better community today and for years to come. Congratulations Box Springs Business Park, take a bow, you have earned it.