Economy Thread

[Djeffery]

I was reading the Project Python thread in the Ottawa forum, which is about the new Amazon distribution centre under construction there, and it's amazing how fast it went from nobody even knowing about it to it being under construction. Southwold Township is going to be very motivated to get this approved and under construction, no matter who is going there. I was also comparing land sizes, and Python is 64 acres. Ford, according to the Free Press, is 254 hectares, or over 600 acres.

So, even if Amazon was looking at something that size (2.7 million sq ft on 5 levels), there is plenty of land for a huge multi-tenant industrial park out there. I can't see what any holdups could be to build there. Ford employed thousands of people who came and went in multiple shifts a day and there was a huge number of trucks coming and going. Kinda like Amazon lol. The property is barely 2 miles off the 401 and highway 4 is 4 lanes wide. And there isn't any more residential anywhere nearby that there was when Ford still ran. Should be no reason that type of facility gets approved.