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The 404 tech corridor: Markham, Richmond Hill and visiting delegations
A steady flow of visiting teams from Asia and the United States, most of whom land at Pearson and need to be somewhere in York Region by morning.
Markham and Richmond Hill hold a dense concentration of technology head offices, consulting firms and manufacturers, and they generate a particular kind of work: visiting delegations who arrive together and need to move together.
Multi-car airport meets
Eight people on one flight is not a sedan booking repeated eight times. It is either a Sprinter or a coordinated set of vehicles meeting the same arrival, with one chauffeur leading. Getting that wrong means half your visitors standing in Terminal 1 while the others have gone.
The 407 pays for itself here
From York Region to Pearson on a weekday morning, the 407 is frequently the difference between a comfortable arrival and a stressful one. Tolls are inside our quoted fare, so the decision costs you nothing to make — we explain the mechanics in 407 tolls and your fare.
Campus addresses need a door
Office parks along Highway 7 and Woodbine look simple on a map and are not simple at street level. Multiple buildings, multiple entrances, security-controlled lots. We take the specific building and door at booking.
Hotel clusters
Most visiting teams stay near the corridor rather than downtown, which shortens the morning run considerably. Worth planning deliberately — a downtown hotel with a Markham meeting schedule adds an hour to every day of the visit.
Local pages: Markham, Richmond Hill and Vaughan.
