Civil Municipal Magazine Aug 2023

146 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 8 and Nissen Chemitec are both Japanese- owned. We have it all logistically set up, and there’s space available in that corridor.” Population and infrastructure Closser draws attention to the city’s steadily increasing population base. “I believe there are more people here now than what the census shows,” he opined. “But they are currently showing we have 10,500 people. But I can see us in 10 years gaining 25 percent growth in our population. We have about 1,000 homes that are coming, and in development, from houses to apartments to condominiums to townhouses.” To address that projected whopping increase in the number of new Londoners coming in, housing of all types is needed right now, and Closser is pleased that Arbor Homes seeks to build 127 new homes in his community. Fifty-four lots have been sold, and the total could come to