Business View Civil & Municipal | Volume 2, Issue 8

152 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 2, ISSUE 8 in the next few years. The park is on County Road 4, the busiest highway in south Bruce-Grey, and less than a two-hour drive to major centres such as Toronto, Hamilton, and London. Meantime, Brockton is working on a new strategic action plan, setting goals for the area to achieve by the year 2025. According to Watson, “We are currently going through the strategic planning process and it should be approved this summer. It will contain actions for the next five years with a lot of community input and looking at what council wants to prioritize. A lot of it is planning for the future and the growth that we are experiencing, as well as COVID recovery priorities and looking at how we can support our businesses in the immediate future.” The pandemic, while challenging, didn’t hit Brockton’s economy as hard as some others. In fact, more than a dozen new businesses have been launched recently. This was in part because Educating and supporting owners and operators of Ontario’s drinking water systems. Visit wcwc.ca 20 Ontario Rd, Walkerton, Ontario N0G 2V0 | 519-881-2003 East Ridge Business Park