Business View Civil and Municipal | Volume 3, Issue 3

195 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 TOWN OF GR IMSBY , ONTAR IO In other recreation news, the town received a $16 million grant from the provincial government for the Peach King Centre to retrofit the community centre with a small fitness facility, a full gym with an indoor walking track, and a redesign of the change rooms at both ends of the arena. It will also offer a rooftop garden area and rooftop amenities. Another cause to celebrate is the completion of a new state-of-the-art high school, the West Niagara Secondary School, with a 750-seat theater on the site. Jordan shares, “The arts community will especially enjoy the theater space – it’s very important to Grimsby, we’ll have a venue that will be used all the time, I’m sure.” The new business park has a few anchor tenants and the town also welcomed Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA) Local 837. They’ve set up a skills training centre in the town on Hunter Road. In other developments, Losani Homes Ltd. is also building a mixed use condominium and retail building currently has NRT On Demand transit, which is a ride share program that allows users to travel between Grimsby, Lincoln, West Lincoln, Pelham and Wainfleet. It takes residents to the region’s major transit hubs, including the St. Catharines and Welland bus terminals and Port Colborne’s City Hall. “We’re proud to be the number one user of On Demand transit for the seven municipalities that have it,” Jordan says. The pilot project was introduced in 2021 and will expand into offering both a route service and On Demand service in 2022. To really show off the town, the municipality has offered to host a softball tournament as part of Canada’s Summer Games this year. The Region of Niagara bid for the Games and municipalities in the region have put forward their facilities to help out. Grimsby has a fourplex baseball diamond at its Southward Community Sports Park that was built in 2017 and that will host the women’s softball tournament.