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John Crescenzi, general manager of the Holiday Inn Express and Suites in Timmins, stands in the lobby of the new facility slated to open in February.
New Timmins hotels a welcome additionTrying to secure a hotel room in Timmins this year will be a bit easier with two new facilities opening their doors.Holiday Inn Express and Suites on Algonquin Avenue and Microtel Inn and Suites on Riverside Drive will be open for business early this year.The Holiday Inn will feature 108 guest rooms with 24 of those set aside as suites and 12 others as king rooms featuring a jacuzzi tub.“The suites will have a connecting door, two TVs, a fridge, microwave and a pull-out sofa,” said John Crescen...


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Residential developers slow to react to resource opportunities
A showcase event designed to spotlight development opportunities in Atikokan has produced one solid lead. A relatively new entity, Wasaya-Dowland Contracting, has stepped forward to talk with town officials from the northwestern Ontario community of 3,300 to discuss ways to solve a housing cr...
New Timmins hotels a welcome addition
Trying to secure a hotel room in Timmins this year will be a bit easier with two new facilities opening their doors.Holiday Inn Express and Suites on Algonquin Avenue and Microtel Inn and Suites on Riverside Drive will be open for business early this year.The Holiday Inn will feature 108 guest room...
Condos, hotel construction begins on Thunder Bay waterfront
Construction work at Thunder Bay’s Marina Park will continue unabated this winter as a next round of development begins.Contractors were set to pour the foundations for a hotel and condo project in January at the Prince Arthur's Landing project at Marina Park. Delta Hotels and Resorts was chos...
Architecture school embraces wood construction
Construction of Sudbury’s Laurentian School of Architecture is providing an opportunity to introduce a new material, cross-laminated timber (CLT), into Ontario building practices.In August, the Thunder Bay-based Centre for Research and Innovation in the Bio-Economy (CRIBE) announced it is contr...


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