Thu Dec 15, 2005

Group to oppose ethanol plant in Oak Park North business park

BY MICHAEL-ALLAN MARION
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD

A month after a citizens' group forced a Brant County farmer-led co-operative to abandon its bid to build an ethanol plant in Cainsville, another group has formed to try to oust it from its originally intended location in the city’s northwest.

More than 100 people living around the northwest industrial area turned out Wednesday evening to an organizational meeting in Tranquility Hall of the new Citizens Concerned About an Ethanol Plant in Brantford.

The purpose was to lay the building blocks of a campaign to persuade city council, Brant MPP Dave Levac and federal election candidates in the riding to try to stop an attempt by Integrated Grain Processors Co-operative Inc. to build an 86-million ethanol plant on 48 acres in the privately run Oak Park North business park, north of Highway 403.


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Tue Dec 13, 2005

Industrial is Belle of the Real Estate Ball

BY TERRENCE BELFORD
THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Industrial real estate, the often overlooked stepsister in the commercial property sector, has emerged as a true Cinderella.


“We are in great shape right across the country,” says Keith Reading, vice president of research at Toronto-based real estate broker Colliers International. “Vacancy rates are low in every major centre, new buildings are leasing up quickly and new development is going on at a conservative pace.”

The boom in industrial space is being driven by unprecedented demand, not just from tenants but from investors as well, says Stefan Ciotlos, executive vice-president at CB Richard Ellis Ltd.


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