Sequence it around evidence, not around a hoped-for opening day. File when the commitments are documented and the capital figure is stable enough to defend. Processing times are not guaranteed, appointment availability varies, and no office can promise a date. Build the construction schedule with slack instead of committing to an opening that depends on approval.
Track visa validity separately from authorized stay
If the visa is issued, its validity period governs travel to a port of entry; the admission record determines how long the stay is authorized. Keep both dates in the project plan, because a renovation that runs long can outlast an assumption made months earlier. Canadian citizens generally need an E-2 visa.
Maintain the intention to depart when status ends, even while committing years of work to the site. Three clocks are running and only one of them belongs to you. The contractor's schedule is the contractor's to keep, appointment availability at a post is outside anyone's control here, and the period of authorized stay after admission is fixed by the admission record rather than by the project.
Decide who will notice when one of them slips, and give that person authority to raise it early. Hypothetical example: an investor puts the permitting authority's response, the contractor's completion date and the visa appointment on a single page with an owner named beside each, so a delay in any of the three becomes visible before it turns into a missed commitment. Canadian citizens generally need an E-2 visa, so build that step into the sequence rather than assuming entry can simply be requested at the border.