Sysco leads long list of local 2013 building permits

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

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