Fri Feb 25, 2005

Toyota eyes Ontario sites

TONY VAN ALPHEN
TORONTO STAR

Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, a Tokyo newspaper, reported earlier this week that Toyota is "nearing" a decision to build its seventh assembly plant in North America outside of Toronto, rather than in the U.S. where southern states are aggressively courting the company.

The newspaper said Toyota is looking at a site about 50 kilometres north of the existing plants, but industry sources said the company is considering a location south of Cambridge and closer to Brantford.


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Thu Feb 03, 2005

Developer gets green light for project

BY JOHN PAUL ZRONIK
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

Brant County has given developer King & Benton the go-ahead to begin work on a 90-acre parcel of land in southwest Paris.

The area, located off Rest Acres Road near Bethel Road, will eventually be home to light industrial businesses such as warehousing operations. King & Benton had been working toward draft plan approval for the project for the past year, but waited while the county studied how infrastructure services such as water and sewer would be delivered to the area, which is currently unserviced.


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