Mon Aug 15, 2005

Y Building Holds Fond Memories

BY Susan Gamble
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

Temporary home will open in September before move to permanent facility near park.

Step across the worn threshold of the YM-YWCA gymnasium and you’re stepping into history.

In September, the transition building will open on Wellington and Clarence Streets offering bright, spacious facilities that will include everything except racquet sports and swimming.


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Wed Aug 10, 2005

Redeveloped Site Get Seal of Approval

BY MICHAEL-ALLAN MARION
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

Local Brownfield redeveloper King and Benton is the first company in the Brantford area to file provincially registered records of site condition verifying that two of its former industrial properties are environmentally up to snuff.

King & Benton didn’t have to go through the expensive process in its Holmedale project, because its redevelopment was done before the regulations came into effect.

Nonetheless, the company hired environmental firm Dillon Consulting Ltd. to do it anyway.

Coun. Marguerite Ceschi-Smith, who has pushed brownfield cleanup and redevelopment for years, praised the company’s actions.

“Here is a private sector company that has taken the initiative to be as current as possible with new brownfield guidelines,” she said.

“Steve Charest is one of the first in the province to do this and certainly the first in Brantford.”


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Tue Aug 09, 2005

Developer gives thumbs-up to brownfield tax incentives

BY MICHAEL-ALLAN MARION
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

City council wants to get more input from private sector brownfield redevelopers before moving ahead with a tax incentives proposal to lure them into cleaning up some of Brantford’s worst sites.

Steve Charest, president of King & Benton Redevelopment Corp., which has successfully redeveloped the former Harding Carpets property into the Holmedale Business Centre and is revamping the Work Wear property at Wellington and Clarence streets into a YM-YWCA Family Program Centre, told council he likes the incentive plan in general.


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Tue Jul 19, 2005

Becky the builder

BY CHRISTOPHER SMITH
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

Little Sister Rebecca gets a feel for driving a Bobcat, supplied by CRS Contractors Rental Supply, at A Day in the Life of Construction on the transitional YM-YWCA site at Clarence and Wellington. King & Benton Redevelopment Corporation gave children an up close and supervised view of different aspects of construciton sites and skilled trades. Display stations gave children a chance to ride a scissor jack, test a well and operate an interactive electricity display.


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Thu Jul 14, 2005

Classroom For A Day

BY MICHAEL-ALLAN MARION
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

YM-YWCA’s new home to be used Saturday to teach children about construction careers.

Mounted jointly by the Y, King & Benton Redevelopment Corp. and Big Brothers of Brantford and District, the event, from 10 a.m. to noon, is an opportunity to introduce children to the realities of construction sites and demonstrate the value of skilled trades.

The idea for the event began when Big Brothers asked King & Benton president Steve Charest to participate in one of their monthly special events in May, said Colleen Armstrong, the company’s project co-ordinator.

While driving some little Brothers around the downtown in his Hummer, she said it occurred to Charest that the Y project offered an opportunity for another educational event.


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