Construction

Sudbury’s Interpaving has landed a $4.1-million provincial contract to replace a culvert at Jocko Creek on Highway 655, north of Timmins, starting this spring. The contract was one of four announced by the province on May 2, all worth a combined $11.

It may have arrived just in time for April Fools’ Day, but a funding announcement of close to $2.5 million for Timmins’ new industrial rail park was no joke.

Notorious for its crater-sized potholes and heavy traffic, Algonquin Boulevard in Timmins — which doubles as provincial Highway 101 — will finally get some relief this summer with the start of a $95.5-million reconstruction project.

A plan is finally in motion to build a long-overdue 25-kilometre access road to an isolated and neglected northwestern Ontario First Nation community straddling the Ontario-Manitoba border.

When Anne Headrick took on the role of housing supervisor for the Garden River First Nation in 2011, the community was operating with an outdated housing policy that wasn’t serving the best interests of its members.

It’ll be a great summer for Aecon Construction and Materials. The Toronto-based contractor landed a trio of provincial highway improvements valued at $34.5 million.

Contractors in Northern Ontario aren’t expecting a flurry of activity across the region this year.

A slumping economy didn’t detract from a solid year of construction in the City of North Bay with $68.8 million recorded in the value of building permits for 2015. It was a slight $1.6 million increase over the $67.2 million posted in 2014.

The newly constructed Nipigon River Bridge will be partially opened to traffic on Nov. 28.

Pearson Plaza in Elliot Lake is on track to be completed and open for business in the spring of 2016. Three years in the making, the $3.5-million shopping centre development started in 2012 and was scheduled to be complete a year later.