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.”