Mon Aug 29, 2005

King & Benton appoints Vice President of Finance and Business Development

King & Benton, a leading commercial real estate developer, is pleased to announce the appointment of Scott Higgins as Vice President, Finance and Business Development.


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Mon Aug 15, 2005

A bargain-hunter's paradise

BY Susan Gamble
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

United Way’s warehouse sale attracts thousands.

The early birds caught the best selection but the stragglers snagged the bargains at the annual United Way Giant Warehouse Sale.

With thousands of people pouring through one of the King and Benton warehouses on Mohawk Street, the sale was an acclaimed success, featuring pallets of cleaning supplies, blue jeans, T-shirts, runners, and candles, candles, candles.


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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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