Developer shows off and 'Open for Business'
BY MICHAEL-ALLLAN MARION
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD
A developer claims his new 500-acre private business park on Oak Park Road could open a new phase of economic development in the city and Brant County, and take the heat off the need for land in boundary negotiations.
Charest led a tour Wednesday around the industrial developer's vast land holdings on both sides of Oak Park Road, north of Highway 403.
The property King and Benton has acquired on the west and east sides of the highway is about 500 acres of mostly mined-out quarry land once worked by such firms as Nelson Aggregates.
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