Read about another new business for 'The Friendly City' under construction currently by Woodstock's Sierra General Contracting
By
Mark Schadenberg
The
website www.cometothecrossroads.com is a great advertisement for
doing business in Woodstock and certainly also in Oxford County.
As
a Woodstock Realtor, I know that when you promote Oxford as a destination,
you’re promoting Woodstock equally.
Our
local economy is strong in the automotive sector, which translates into
strength in car parts and logistics. If your market relies on transport trucks
to traverse the 401 and 403 crossroads, than soon your market will attract more
companies which sell and service heavy duty trucks.
GERRY’S
TRUCK CENTRE IS
EXPANDING TO WOODSTOCK
When I talked to Rob Wardle (dealer manager) of Gerry’s Truck Centre he was the
first to compliment the efforts of Brad Hammond and Len Magyar of the Woodstock
economic development office in selecting Woodstock as the site for their Volvo
dealership for sales and service. Gerry’s Truck Centre will continue its London
location, but currently under construction on Parkinson Road is a brand new
6-bay 14,000 square foot building.
To
add to the great news about the increasing employment base in Woodstock is the
fact that Woodstock’s Sierra Construction (Sierra General Contracting) is
building Gerry’s Truck Centre.
Check
out the website for the City of Woodstock and in particular the www.cometothecrossroads.com to learn about many good news
items of the recent past and on the horizon.
The
Woodstock economic development office promotes local real estate as its website
has a list of commercial listings. Naturally, the City must also advertise its
land for future development whether it be on Devonshire at the front door steps
to Toyota, or in Commerce Way, Pattullo Ridge or Bysham Park . . . the
municipality itself owns over 400 acres of serviced industrial land which means
you could be building in 2017 in Woodstock. Our municipality is a great place
for a warehouse or manufacturing facility with its in-the-middle (crossroads of
401 and 403) proximity to Toronto, Windsor, and Niagara.
Below: Pages 6 and 7 from latest Woodstock Chamber of Commerce magazine
The
‘crossroads’ website also includes the most recent newsletters, building permit
reports, demographic statistics, maps and overhead photos, city guidelines for
development charges, and links to videos promoting Woodstock and Oxford County.
With
southern Ontario as an ideal place to do business, Woodstock’s duo of Hammond
and Magyar are also key members of SOMA – the Southwestern Ontario Marketing
Alliance. I remember writing about the SOMA-sponsored trip to Japan to attract
industry (see link), and as I noted above new economic benefits for Woodstock,
also assist other SOMA members such as Tillsonburg, Ingersoll, Stratford, St
Thomas and Aylmer and . . . vice sersa.
The
SOMA website – in some areas – is even more comprehensive than the Woodstock
crossroads site as many sectors of the current economy are listed, and there
are links to acquiring more information on each member centre.
For
Woodstock and ‘cometothecrossroads’ ongoing promotion, it was noted in their
2016 year-in review newsletter that Firestone celebrated its 80th anniversary in Woodstock, the Hino trucks plant had an expansion, Steel
Technologies also expanded, Norwell Dairy Systems built a brand new building, a
new commercial plaza was constructed at the corner of Mill and Main streets,
Ontario Refrigerated Services opened its doors in Commerce Way, and also that a
chicken hatchery had selected Woodstock as the city it wanted to build in.
The
Woodstock Economic Advisory Committee includes mayor Trevor Birtch, city
council member Shawn Shapton (www.integrashredding.ca), the
Hammond and Magyar connection, plus 8 local business people.
In
a previous blog I had noted that Magyar and Hammond were spotted at the Future
Oxford Expo on April 20th at the Woodstock Fairgrounds. The
Woodstock economy certainly relies on agriculture (Lely, Bright Cheese House, Springbank
Cheese, ADM Nutrition, Agribrands Purina, Sysco, the previously noted Norwell
Dairy and Thames River Hatchery, and many others) and urban businesses. Among
the contingent of exhibitors at the Expo were the folks from Rural Oxford EDC (www.roedc.ca).
Oxford has three municipalities (Woodstock, Ingersoll and Tillsonburg) and five
townships, so the rural base of economic growth also has an ‘open door’ policy
on attracting new business to perhaps Thamesford, Drumbo, Hickson, Tavistock, Norwich,
Sweaburg, Innerkip, Embro, Salford, Mt. Elgin, Burgessville, Plattsville and
even Punkeydoodles Corner.
Rural
Oxford Economic Development uses the slogan People Proximity Prosperity, and
you could add the word ‘progressive’ as Oxford is most certainly a leader in
agriculture and rural technology.
LINKS:
www.cometothecrossroads.com
www.cometothecrossroads.com
2015
Japan trip blog:
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All content compiled by:
Mark Schadenberg, Sales
Representative
Senior Real Estate Specialist
(SRES designation)
Royal LePage Triland Realty
Independently Owned & Operated, Brokerage
757 Dundas St, Woodstock
Planning any type of move to Woodstock, contact me.
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