Archives: October 2004

Fri Oct 22, 2004

Developer gets OK for new industrial park

BY MICHAEL-ALLAN MARION
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

Developer King and Benton has a green light to procedd with its plan to establish Oak Park North, a privately owned 450-acre industrial park on the city's northwest outskirts.

Council has given conditional approval to applications from King and Benton Development Corp. for official plan and zoning bylaw amendments that set the stage for the company to create its business park out of three parcels of land: 120 acres on the west side of Oak Park Road, north of Highway 403, 303 acres on the east side, and about 20 acres on the Brant county side which are subject to a separate agreement.

Coun. Greg Martin, chairman fo the community development committee, praised the project for making more industrial land available to maintain the city's srong development pace.

"We're almost out of land,"he said for the city's industrial parks."It's nice to see the private sector stepping up with this initiative."



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Wed Oct 06, 2004

First Nations Business Development division of King & Benton presents at the CANDO

First Nations Business Development division of King & Benton presents at the CANDO - Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officer - National Conference in Fredriction. NB
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Land for the future

BY MICHAEL-ALLAN MARION
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

The city's longtime strategy of developing its own industrial land is paying huge dividends, now that a private developer has entered the picture.

King and Benton Development Corp. - led by local businessman Steve Charest got approval from the city's planning committee Monday to rezone land designated for a privately owned industrial park adjacent to the city's almost full industrial park in the northwest corner of the city.

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Industrial park could spark change

BY MICHAEL-ALLAN MARION
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

City councillors are upbeat over Brantford's economic growth following council's blessing of a new 450-acre private industrial park planned for the northwest.

Speculation is rife among them that Steve Charest, president of King and Benton Development Corp., already has a number of companies lined up to locate in his Oak Park North site, located on both sides of Oak Park Road, north of Highway 403.

"From the way he's talking, I just know he has a few deals already in his pocket," Coun. John Sless said.

Charest is known to be bringing in interested investors from across Ontario and the United States, but has turned aside questions to be more specific.
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Sat Oct 02, 2004

Oak Park North clears hurdle

BY MICHAEL-ALLAN MARION
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

Brantford is opening up a new era in industrial development with council's approval in principle of a 450-acre industrial park completely generated by a private developer in the northwest comer of the city. Council, in a planning meeting Monday, overwhelmingly endorsed two official plan amendments and a rezoning application that set the stage for the creation of Oak Park North - two parcels of land on the west and east side of Oak Park Road, north of Highway 403.

The park will be, built by King and Benton Development Corp., a rising industrial developer in the area, and contains a range of yet unnamed prestige industrial and warehousing concerns.

"I think the call the municipality has sent out to the private sector to join in developing the area has been answered," King and Benton president Steve Charest said outside the council chamber.

"It's exciting what's about to happen. We've been working on this for the past couple of years, and we're ready to hit the ground running."
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