Thu May 19, 2005

YM-YWCA on track for move to temporary home

BY MICHAEL-ALLAN MARION
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

A plan to put an interim YM-YWCA in the old Work Wear building is on schedule, and progress continues on a long-term project to construct a permanent facility by Earl Haig Park, says the organization's CEO.

Don Duncan said this week the design for renovations to transform the Work Wear brownfield property at Wellington and Clarence streets is finished and partners King & Benton Redevelopment Corp. and Lanca Construction are in the process of acquiring all the necessary permits.

Colleen Armstrong, King & Benton's project co-ordinator, said the company appreciates the co-operation it is getting from city staff to keep momentum going on a project that will also redevelop one of the city’s 15 designated brownfield sites.

She said she also hoped the project will encourage greater private sector redevelopment of other brownfield properties in the community.


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Fri May 13, 2005

Ontario budget brings good news to ethanol co-op

BY MICHAEL-ALLAN MARION
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD


IGPC's plant is among a group of pending ethanol facilities in different parts of the province that are trying to get off the ground and into production in time to meet the Ontario government's mandate.
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If IGPC's application for federal financing is approved, it would speed up construction of its proposed facility in the Oak Park North business park north of Highway 403.

IGPC, made up mainly of Brant farmers, community members and other strategic interests, is in the middle of its equity drive aimed at raising up to $43 million from area interests.

When finished, IGPC's plant will be the largest in Ontario. It will use about
12 million bushels of corn a year — six per cent of Ontario's average annual corn production — to process about 125 million litres of ethanol, 96,000 tonnes of dried distillers grains for the livestock feed market and about 60,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.


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Tue May 03, 2005

How a city redefined itself: BRANTFORD IS ATTRACTING RICH DIET OF FOOD FIRMS

DAVID BRUSER
BUSINESS REPORTER
TORONTO STAR

If it’s true chocolate comforts the depressed, no wonder Brantford’s economy is developing a sweet tooth.

There’s perhaps no greater symbol of the Telephone City’s economic transformation than the $50 million candy manufacturing plant that Italy-based Ferrero Group is building in the city’s northwest business park.

There are currently 20 businesses involved in food products manufacturing, 12 of which opened in the Brantford area between 1996 and 2004. The 20 companies account for more than 600 jobs in the region. Not including Ferrero, the food manufacturing sector employs about 1,300.

Locating in Brantford also situates companies just outside the congestion and expense of the GTA. Geography proved a major draw when Dure Foods Ltd. Planned to build a new facility in Brantford two years ago.


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