Reasons abound to locate your business in Woodstock
By Mark Schadenberg
Where
the 401 and 403 meet at the edge of Woodstock forms the letter 'Y'
and this crossroads is exactly 'why' many businesses have chosen
Woodstock as their home.
You
can discover more about the Friendly City and Oxford County by
studying through the data and highlights posted at
www.cometothecrossroads.com
As
I have reported in the past here, Len Magyar and Brad Hammond from
the city's economic development office have continued their terrific
efforts in attracting traffic to their website and business to this
area.
City
council and Mayor Trevor Birtch have also assisted in welcoming
business ventures, along with the previous two councils as led by Pat
Sobeski and Michael Harding. Past positive moves include instituting
a system of applying no development charges to new industrial
projects in Woodstock. Obviously this is important as the community
later collects dollars in municipal taxes down the road. Also
implemented by Woodstock is the limitation placed on overall charges
for building permits as the system is designed as a 'cost recovery'
program.
WEDAC plays an integral role also -- advisory committee for the economic development office.
Current WEDAC List
The
fact the City owns much of the most desirable chunks of available
industrial land is also paramount as it most certainly helps in
controlling the cost per acre. If developers owned the vast majority
of available properties, the asking price for a parcel of unserviced
land would be higher than what the City is essentially selling
serviced land for.
A
link to the latest 'real estate' newsletter of commercial listings
from City Hall is below – an update on available vacant land or
existing buildings available for purchase or lease. The dots on the
map total 49, so there's lots to pick from, including 28 land parcels
– some adjoining others so they could be expanded, while some could
also be sub-divided depending on your requirements.
FRONT
PAGE NEWS
The
title page promotes 75 acres across the street from the Toyota (TMMC)
factory with visible frontage on Devonshire Avenue. The former
farmland, which has been inside city limits for several years, is
titled simply as North East Business Park, but if you were to set up
your enterprise there you would also be very close to the Woodall
Recreation Complex and practically next door to the future location
of the new Hydro One home.
There
is 43 acres in Commerce Way Park, which is immediately at the 401 /
403 junction. With its exposure and visibility, the asking price is
$100,000 per acre. Any multi-national corporation would love to
secure the quick access to the transportation routes and the ability
to post signage along the so-called Macdonald-Cartier freeway.
From
manufacturing to warehouses space, Woodstock is a great place to do
business.
One
good example of lease space is the former home of Scholastic Books.
The popular distribution system of children's books (plus many other
published items) did not leave Woodstock, but actually re-located to
a brand new facility with 401 visibility, so therefore Scholastic's
previous home has 48,000 square feet available in the
well-established Bysham Park area. Located at the corner of Lansdowne
Avenue, and less than 300 metres from Firestone, Maglin Furniture and
Dundas Street (Highway 2), this location has loading docks and
ceilings up to 26 feet.
As
a full-time Realtor for 16 years, you can contact me first for a tour
of the city and to discuss your possible plans. Then, when we visit
City Hall, I will introduce you to Len, Brad and Trevor, and of
course Faye Eltom and Ann Ash.
A
QUICK LOOK BACK
The
other important newsletter posted below is also from
www.cometothecrossroads.com
and is a newsworthy recap of recent happenings in the local
industrial picture. The report paints lots of good news, from the
opening of Trans-Mit to the City's on-going efforts to have a
satellite campus for the University of Ottawa located in Woodstock.
The 7-page report covers an update of the expansion at Woodstock
District Developmental Services (which I have wrote about here before
also), prominent local employer North American Stamping Group has
hired additional staff, and a summary of 2014 building permits.
There
are countless reasons to call Woodstock home. Just one more is the
many cycling (hiking or walking too) trails along the Thames River.
Another link below depicts the trail system.
www.wdds.ca
LINKS:
http://cometothecrossroads.com/images/PDFs/newsletters/2014/WoodstockEcoDev_2014YIR_NewsletterAccessibleFINAL.pdf
www.cityofwoodstock.ca
http://www.cityofwoodstock.ca/en/city-hall/wedac.asp
Mark
Schadenberg, Sales
Representative
Senior
Real Estate Specialist (SRES designation)
Royal
LePage Triland Realty
757
Dundas St, Woodstock
(519)
537-1553, cell or text
Email:
mschadenberg@rogers.com
Twitter:
markroyallepage
Facebook:
Mark Schadenberg, Royal LePage Triland
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