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Originally Posted by vid
The vacant building at the corner of Cumming and McKenzie burned this morning.
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Another old relic of Fort William gone. Won't be much left in that area at this rate.
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Resolute is seriously looking at re-positioning the mostly idled Fort Frances mill. Sounds like they are going to do their damndest to get a new product line in at the mill. I think they are really worried they will lose access to the area's fibre basket unless they get producing something again. The Ontario government seems to be following through on their threats to take harvesting rights away if a company is not going to put wood to use that has been allocated to them.
http://www.workingforest.com/resolut...-frances-mill/
Other developments/updates locally:
-Construction is in full swing at the former Intercity Zellers location that is becoming Target. Some small additions are being put on the store to square off the old entrances right now. The contractors on site seem to have multiple shifts on the go, indicating a desire to get things done quickly.
-On the opposite end of things, progress at the new ToysRUs store has pretty well stalled. Supposedly a tender went out recently for finishing the interior work. Wonder what has gone wrong there?
-A new store is going in at Intercity mall near the food court. No idea who for sure, could be Maurices though as they are opening a local store
-The new TBayTel Engineering building is pretty well up and almost closed in. Not surprising given its not an overly large building
-The TBRHSC and the TBRRI finally announced that the cyclotron will be installed in the new Health Services Building to be constructed on Oliver Rd in the very near future. The move will save the hospital $1 million over putting the unit in a stand alone building, which was the original plan. Funding was announced years ago for the project, and there has been a lot of delay in getting it installed since then. Hopefully this announcement means things will finally be moving forwards
-Marriott is going up slowly still, piles are being driven for the Holiday Inn, both at Carrick and the Harbour
-No noticeable sign of progress at The Club Condos at TBCC. This project makes the city's waterfront private development look more and more spectacular all the time, in terms of the city's ability to pull it off
-Supposedly OPG is looking at biomass as an option for the TBGS. Good luck finding enough biomass to ever keep the thing going for any duration of time, I say (unless OPG intends to turn it into a peaking plant like Atikokan). Needless to say, if OPG is going to keep the plant open and if power is needed in NWO, the TBGS will absolutely be burning coal past 2014. There is no way any conversion away from coal, or the east-west tie line can be built in time to prevent this now.