Wed Apr 06, 2005

Old factory to become Y's home - for now

BY MICHAEL-ALLAN MARION
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

Ending months of speculation, senior Y administrators and board members unveiled to The Expositor on Tuesday details of a $1-million-plus partnership with brownfield redeveloper King & Benton and Lanca Construction to revamp the former Work Wear plant at Wellington and Clarence streets.

“The entire community is aware of our search to build a new, full-service Y, with all the features that our members want and deserve,” said Don Duncan, the Y’s interim CEO.

“As a major step toward that vision, we are proud to announce our partnership with King & Benton and Lanca Construction in creating an exciting new centre.”


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Project will give life to old industrial building

BY MICHAEL-ALLAN MARION
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

The old Work Wear building on Wellington Street looks like any other drab, unused brick-walled factory from another era.

But its latest owner, King & Benton Redevelopment Corp., and Lanca Construction are working at lightning speed to transform it in the next few months into a new facility for the YM-YWCA and resurrect some of its earlier architectural glory.


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Good Deal for the Y

Editorial
THE EXPOSITOR / BRANTFORD

At last, the YM-YWCA has somewhere to go. For a while, it looked as if the Y might be out on the street at the end of June when its old Queen Street building is sold. But the Y has made a good last-minute deal with developer King and Benton for temporary facilities in a brownfield building at Clarence and Wellington Streets.

Congratulations to King and Benton for its creative approach to the redevelopment of a brownfield building and to t
he Y’s leadership for expressing confidence in its future.


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