Dryden & Kenora Feature

A new waterfront pavilion as part of Kenora's downtown revitalization efforts has lured more outdoor events and keyed new tourism and hospitality-related development in the core.
Kenora keys on value-added, homes and tourism opportunitiesMunicipal officials in Kenora have high hopes for the redevelopment of the former Abitibi mill site and a nearby package of brownfield properties.Winnipeg developer Marcel Chartier of C.B. Richard Ellis owns the 400 acres consisting of waterfront property, slated for a mixed-used residential development, and the former paper mill, which is being set aside for light manufacturing opportunities.The new anchor tenant on the old mill site is Wincrief Homes, a modular homebuilder, which is set...


Dryden & Kenora News

Kenora keys on value-added, homes and tourism opportunities
Municipal officials in Kenora have high hopes for the redevelopment of the former Abitibi mill site and a nearby package of brownfield properties.Winnipeg developer Marcel Chartier of C.B. Richard Ellis owns the 400 acres consisting of waterfront property, slated for a mixed-used residential dev...
New Dryden development czar charts own path
It wasn't long after James Harvey moved his young family into a middleclass neighbourhood in Whitby that he was secondguessing his choice of home. A multiple stabbing at a New Year's Eve house party across the street had his block bathed in searchlights with police dogs and forensics speciali...
Kenora helicopter outfit establishes Far North presence
A Kenora aviation company is following the mineral trail due north to broaden its horizons in Canada’s Far North.Mineral exploration has been a saving grace for Forest Helicopters after years of working in the declining forest industry. “A real significant part of what we do is exploration,” ...
Sioux Lookout trucker looks north
Lew Morgan gets misty-eyed when he's asked about the expanding size and scope of his family-owned northwestern Ontario trucking firm that has passed to a third generation.“I'm pretty pleased,” he said in halting voice of his son, Darrell. “Very happy.”At 70 years old and working “semi-retired”...
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• Communities of Opportunity: Kenora
• Communities of Opportunity: Dryden
• Aquaculture president pledges to keep ELA afloat
• Red Lake gas pipeline gets FedNor support
• Angel investors helping entrepreneurs succeed
• Kenora cruise ship won't haul anchor
• Closure of sawmill has community looking for answers
• Dedication to craftsmanship pays off for Lough Electric


Dryden & Kenora Community Profile

 

Quick Facts (Dryden) 2011 Municipal Tax Rate 

Population: 8,663, trading area 35,000

Location: 340 km west of Thunder Bay

Main Industry: Forestry, Mineral Exploration, Tourism

www.exploredryden.ca 

Commercial occupied: 0.03721572

Industrial occupied: 0.03504480
Target Growth Areas  Real Estate 

Renewable Energy - Solar and Biomass

Value-added Manufacturing

Mineral Exploration and Mining

Real Estate

Tourism

Average cost of a four-bedroom home: $150,000 - $250,000
 Developments for 2012  Top 5 Employers 

$30 million water treatment plant

$13.5 million Riverview Elementary School

$2.6 million Ontario Provincial Police Detachment Building

Domtar Pulp Products Ltd: 340 employees

Keewating-Patricia District School Board: 220 employees

Dryden Regional Health Centre: 205 employees

City of Dryden: 200 employees

Raleigh Falls Ltd: 200 employees

 

Quick Facts (Kenora) 2011 Municipal Tax Rate 

Population: 15,177, with a service area 

of 21,000 and a summer population of 30,000

Location: 200 km from Winnipeg and only 50 kms from the Manitoba border

Main Industry: Health Care

www.kenora.ca 

 Commercial occupied: 0.02725513
Industrial occupied: 0.02894114
Target Growth Areas  Real Estate 

Value-added wood products

Tourism

Land Development

Average cost of a four-bedroom home: $225,000
 Developments for 2012  Top 5 Employers 

Phase III of the downtown revitalization project

Post-secondary education and training facility with a performance arts

Cultural centre

Opening of the Lake of the Woods Brewing Co.

Waterfront residential developments

Lake of the Woods District Hospital: 501 employees

District of Kenora Home for the Aged: 245 employees

Wal-Mart: 200 employees

i-Level Weyerhaeuser Mill: 160 employees

Moncrief Construction: 120 employees

 


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