Construction boom in Woodstock for most sectors
By Mark Schadenberg
My name is not Craig or Len or Brad or Harold, but if it was I would
be just one member of a quartet that is making Pat proud.
The number and total value of the building permits for 2013 in
Woodstock was impressively above the $150 million plateau which would make
Mayor Pat Sobeski ecstatic as the 10-year average is below $110 million.
Craig Wallace from the building department at the engineer’s office on
James Street has been busy, but so has engineer Harold deHaan, along with Len
Magyar and Brad Hammond from the business development office at City Hall (500
Dundas). Hammond and Magyar know that from the big big number, about $45
million is the total building permit fulfilled by Sysco and its brand new
location down Commerce Way off Parkinson Road in Woodstock.
Sobeski could be the chairman of the board who knows all the pieces of
the puzzle (Gantt chart) are welded together when Craig Wallace suggests that
the City of Woodstock could cap the cost of a building permit at $25,000 knowing
that would be most certainly cost recovery on the work conducted by staffers no
matter how large the projected project.
The total price tag on building initiatives in Woodstock for 2013 was
$152,349,044, which topped the 2012 number by more than $21 million.
The only years which can top 2013 are both 2007 and 2008 – due to
Toyota. It was May of 2005 when it became official that Toyota would be
building a manufacturing facility in Woodstock, but it did not open until late
2008.
Besides Sysco, there were other good news construction endeavours in
2013, including the Execulink offices in Pattullo Ridge ($3,500,000), a medical
building adjacent to the new hospital ($6,800,000), an addition at the
Scotiabank in the Sobeys Plaza ($900,000), Transfreight expansion ($4,000,000),
Homestead Christian Care on VanSittart (2,400,000) and Steel Technologies
addition on Beards Lane (4,000,000), and an addition of more classrooms at
Algonquin School (700,000).
Taken from Building Report to Woodstock city council and agenda of Feb
20, 2014
Year Construction
Value Number of Permits
Issued
2013 152 million 633
2012 131 596
2011 73 542
2010 76 583
2009 81 531
2008 250 564
2007 317 573
2006 138 598
2005 63 618
2004 61 606
2003 73 522
LINK: http://www.woodstocksentinelreview.com/2014/02/12/woodstocks-economic-development-department-recognized-at-provincial-conference
Mark
Schadenberg, Sales Representative
Senior
Real Estate Specialist (SRES designation)
Royal
LePage Triland Realty
757 Dundas
St, Woodstock
www.wesellwoodstock.com
(519) 537-1553,
cell or text
Email:
mschadenberg@rogers.com
Twitter:
markroyallepage
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