I completely forgot about the Court St. Safeway. I tend not to think about it, being from the south side of town. I am not going to say that Sobeys wouldn't do away with that store, but I think it would be good business sense to keep it. The population of the downtown P.A. area is going to increase with the projects going on down there. There is also quite an established population in the area of that store already. There is no reason why that location shouldn't be quite profitable so much as the store is well managed, marketed and maintained. There really isn't any other large chain grocery store in that area.
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Another new business is setting up shop in Thunder Bay. Northern Ontario Business is reporting that Golder Associates in opening up an office on Alloy Dr. The company provides consulting, design and construction services, and is based in Mississauga. The company is looking to capitalize on mining and energy projects through opening their Thunder Bay office.
http://www.northernontariobusiness.c...under-Bay.aspx
A group called The Friends of Grain Elevators has applied to have the Western No. 10 elevator in Westfort along the Kam River declared a national historic site. The working elevator contains equipment in working condition from by-gone eras of the grain trade. The owner of the elevator is supporting the bid. In my opinion, its way over due for something like this to be considered for one of Thunder Bay's historical waterfront industries. There is good potential for this thing to be a tourist attraction. Minneapolis has a similar attraction, but it would pale in comparison to tours of the Western elevator.
http://www.tbnewswatch.com/artsandli...friend-request
An announcement is expected before the end of the month surrounding the re-opening of the White River sawmill. The sawmill is under the ownership of a group consisting of municipalities, First Nations and private investors. Frank Dottori (who was instrumental in bringing Birla to Terrace Bay) is rumoured to be among those private investors. From what I understand, the White River sawmill will be integrated into the production chain of the AV Terrace Bay mill. This positions the sawmill well in terms of having a customer for the by-products of lumber production.
The Dubreuil Forest Products sawmill will also be re-opening this summer. AV Terrace Bay is likely a major contributing factor to this sawmill re-opening as well. It is likely the White River mill will require a substantial capital investment to modernize operations since the mill has not run in quite some time. I'm not sure what state the Dubreuil mill is in.
Central and northeastern parts of Northern Ontario are developing quite the network of wood flow between mill operations and harvesting contractors. Much of this supply chain was lost with the downturn of the forest industry. Its restoration is going to produce a stronger cluster of forestry industries in the above areas. Harvesting contractors are also going to be major benefactors as they have multiple customers for their wood products. This is a very positive development economically for these parts of Northern Ontario. Unfortunately, many parts of NWO are not benefiting from this supply chain renaissance. The single-entity nature of forest tenure in this part of the province has limited industrial players to a couple large corporations. Harvesting contractors are forced to deal with one customer for their wood. Coopetition does not exist between different corporations either, which is not as healthy for business in the long run as compared to the situation is central and northeastern Northern Ontario. The province is going to have to address this issue in NWO, which will be difficult for them since they are the ones who have created situation.
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