After closing up shop in late May, the City of Kenora is considering welcoming back Atlantis Direct to its vacant call centre, provided the company gets its financial house in order.
The company unexpectedly ceased operations May 29, less than a year after opening, throwing 58 people out of work without their final two weeks of pay. The city is considering several clients as possible tenants to fill the office in the Bergman buildings, but wants some assurances from Atlantis that they are able to pay all their outstanding debts as part of the conditions to restart. Kenora's municipal telephone service stocked the offices with equipment worth $620,000 with the aid of a northern heritage fund grant.
After opening June 11, 2001, the company promised to deliver more than 200 full-time jobs to Kenora. An Atlantis executive blamed their woes on a client's non-payment of contract work.
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