By ANDREW WAREING
Bayport Village, a 25-unit townhouse complex in Haileybury under development by Alterra, is well on its way to completion of its first phase, says Dave Treen, Town of Haileybury director of community and developmental services.
Bayport Village is named after the fictitious town written about in the Leslie McFarlane Hardy Boys novels. The author is being commemorated by the naming of a new street in the subdivision in his honour.
The company had 18 units sold by mid-July.
“Infrastructure work is underway,” he says. “They are developing all new water, sewer and storm water management, hydro, gas and telephone service. They’re doing pre-grading and under-footing, getting ready for foundation work.”
Completion of landscaping and other final touches are expected by spring of 2004, with people starting to move into their new units by late fall.
“There are other phases to the development being planned for an adjacent 400 acre parcel of land south of the current development, but that’s in the conceptual phase at this point,” says Treen.
Also on the homebuilding front, Town of New Liskeard chief planning official Bill Glassford says town staff is preparing an official plan amendment (OPA) for a residential development by local company Pedersen
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The plan calls for the development of 27 units on Cosman Crescent. The amendment will change the zoning of a nearly five-acre plot of land from open space to residential.
“We’re calling it an extension of the crescent because the crescent is already there and this will just allow the development to be completed,” says Glassford. “It’s got quite a ways to go to completion so it will probably be until next year before we see this come to fruition.”
Englehart deputy clerk-treasurer Jana Butt says the town is currently working on an $875,000-improvement to its water treatment and distribution system to bring it into compliance with Ontario Ministry of the Environment regulations for clean water.
The town is also working on the development of a new community centre estimated to cost nearly $3 million.
“We will be starting construction on that for the spring of 2004 and, if all goes according to plan, it should be completed by the end of the year,” says Butt.
Kirkland Lake director of community and economic development Don Studholme says Kirkland Lake is working on a $12-million long-term care facility to replace the previous Teck Pioneer Residence. The new facility will have over 80 beds, and will be located next to the town’s hospital so it will take advantage of the hospitals laundry and kitchen facilities.
“We save money on the construction because we don’t have to build those facilities in the new building, but we will be contracting to the hospital for those services. It’s a win-win situation for both,” says Studholme.
There will also be a new $18-million high school building in the area, for which tenders are expected to go out for this fall.
Steph Palmateer, chief administrative officer for the Town of Cobalt, says that a lot of work is currently being done on developing the Cobalt Heritage Trail project. There were also several upgrades to the Cobalt arena and community hall.
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