2.1 Bubble Beach

Description: Copy the Astana, Kazakstan indoor beach idea for cold cities in Canada. Has to be cheaper than all inclusive. It’s a fake indoor beach located in the top of a building with a covered roof and tropical level heating. This could use the heat given off by heating the building to help heat this rooftop "beach" area.

Pros: Unique way to spend time in cold cities with not many options in very cold winter weather. Can be used for short term time off, 1-2 days isn't enough time to fly to the Carribean.

Cons: competing with the cost of actually going somewhere tropical, in Canada this isn’t necessarily a budget breaker.

2.2 Better Airports

Description: In airports terminals with people waiting long layovers (international major airports). Have a gym with showers and rentable gym clothes and towels. Cat cafe, dog run area stocked with rescue animals from the city the airport is in.

Live music bar to pay/showcase musicians of the city. This would have to have a large screen in the background giving flight announcements quietly.

Pros: people are bored, tired and cramped in airports, this gives them something productive to do

Cons: may face resistance from shops inside the airport as you’re luring away their captive audience

2.3 Sound Effect Tools

Description: A motion sensing chip in a hand tool that links to a speaker, your headphones, ect. It makes 90s video game noises when you make certain movements, or do certain movements a number of times.

Programmable for any sound you can think of, use it for pranks, videos etc.

Pros: when people see this they will want to try it/buy it. Conducive to social media content, could go viral.

Cons: may never catch on or need a serious social media push (cash outlay) to get rolling.

2.4 Dairy Mart

Description: a small chain store that sells only dairy and dairy alternatives, pay the cashier more money than typical and get them to do something else value adding as well (professional nutritionist).

Keep a running graphic of sales per milk type, make it a “contest”

Sell imported milk products that are hard to get (central Asian milks, cheeses, European cheeses)

Pros: dairy expires quickly, often bought as a convenience item anyway.

Cons: trends where people stop eating dairy. Would people actually go out of their way to visit this store instead of one stop grocery shopping?

2.5 Better Local Ferries

Description: This could be for anywhere on the west or east coast of North America that has issues with its ferry service. Smaller boats with in-car bellhop style service. Top deck for lounging in good weather, canopy that can be rolled out. Smaller boats can be added/reduced as per demand.
Sleeper ferry, sleeping seat areas for walk on passengers
Ferry with gym, showers and rentable towels
Sunset cruise ferry, top deck bar
Different ferry boats each one specialized experience
-sleepers (early am late pm)
-party/sunset DJs large bar rooftop etc. (evening)
-gym ferry (mid day)
-sports bar ferry (during playoffs, big games)
These would help spread the load of peak season of ferries (summer)
-tourist ferry? (Mid day)
-senior ferry (mid day)

Pros: There is a lot of room for improvement in coastal North American ferry services

Cons: Still requires seasonal workers. Initial start-up costs of custom ferries could make this unprofitable

2.6 Luddite Shop

Description:
Physical shop that sells nothing that could track you, mostly mechanical, durable things
No website, no online presence
Airless computers for records, accounting
Sources parts for old things
Repairs things you can’t get parts for, a machine shop/3D printer or local technicians can make something to fit

Vintage cars and motorcycles

Pros: growing market of consumers annoyed at being tracked by their devices. Cybercrime is growing

Cons: this could attract criminals, people with paranoia issues that could make for difficult customers

2.7 Twenty Four hour fight club

Description: a 24 hour open gym that only has fighting gear. Gloves, speed bags, heavy bags, odd equipment. Buy up used stuff of FB marketplace or similar. speakers with available Bluetooth connect/volume control. All the registration, cameras, access will be remote and online. No lockers, bathroom. Allow monthly, yearly and punch card access.

Pros: martial arts gyms are expensive and one-size-fits all, specific training for amateurs may be hard/expensive to get. A martial artists can work on drills for low cost at any time of the day.

Cons: possible fights in a space with fight gear and no security guard. Damage or theft of equipment could be an issue.

2.8 Dismantle Corp

Description: a company that will dismantle almost anything (nothing that can explode easily). Cars, electronics, machinery, houses, RVs ect. There would be a contract with the town/city dump and/or recycling center. This would encourage recycling by paying for some objects to the owners to incentivize them bringing them in instead of letting things rot in place (RVs) and the recycled materials can be sold to reduce the cost to the city/municipality. Each employee has to be given a living wage for that area. Any materials that would regularly be expensive/hard to recycle and usually sent overseas must be stored safely until a financial incentive to recycle or a way to dispose of locally is found. Focus on objects with multiple materials, not raw materials.

Pros: a way for a municipality to promote their green agenda, gain votes by actions that can be seen by any local voter driving to the dump. Materials may be recycled before they rot in place, contaminating the soil. Some municipalities have multiple locations for recycling different item types, this likely leads to people throwing the items into standard garbage instead of making multiple stops.

Cons: This will likely cost money, not make much money. How much money would a municipality spend on this addition to recycling? Locals may not see the point in participating if the incentive (more money lost) is too low

2.9 Compressed Plastics Insulation

Description: small machines/micro factories that take hard to recycle/expensive to recycle plastics and compress them into insulation panels the size of pink batt insulation to fit between stud walls. Make them to specs that would allow them to be used instead of pink batt insulation sheets in wood frame walls. Sell them back to the local contractors and public to be used locally in building projects. These may need some added spray-foam, glue and/or fasteners to be installed inside walls.

Pros: a way for a municipality to promote their green agenda, gain votes by actions that can be seen by any local voter driving to the dump. This would show a pathway to ending difficult to recycle plastics from being sent overseas to contaminate other nations.

Cons: Engineers may not like this idea and make it difficult for these to pass building code. The R value may not be high enough to be a direct replacement. Insulation manufacturers may become combative, trying to kill the product. Local contractors/homeowners may not like the idea of waste in the walls and refuse to use it.