Business View Civil and Municipal l January 2023

191 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 robustness of the infrastructure available on the site. We’ve hosted companies from around the world in Chatham-Kent over the past few months to look at this site and we are confident that it will be a good fit for one of them.” With a residential vacancy rate of less than 2%, the municipality developed a Community Improvement Plan to tackle the challenge CHATHAM-KENT, ONTARIO of housing and inspire development in the community. McFadden explains, “We identified various developers and asked them to look at Chatham-Kent as an opportunity to construct lucrative multi-residential apartments. We’ve been extremely successful on that. Right now, we have about 10 multi- residential developments happening.”