Business View Civil and Municipal | May/June 2022

120 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 5 style dwellings. Over the past two to three years, the town has seen an increase of up to 200 units added to the housing stock. “This has been a very busy year for us,” Hillman explains. “We have four apartment buildings that are under construction. They are modest three, four, or five storeys, but they have offered some significant housing to us in a critical location. At the same time, we are just working through a strategy to advance opportunities for some of our greenfield sites. We have identified those sites by way of critical capital infrastructure investments by the town and the development community and we are working with them to bring housing on stream in a timely manner.” Having more housing available quickly is key because of investments being made in the surrounding communities that are anticipated to draw even more attention to the region. A $4.9 billion electric vehicle battery plant announced for the City of Windsor and a new $2 billion Your trusted partners for solar since 2009! Let Essex Energy provide you with the engineering, knowledge, experience & technology to go green! Essexenergy.ca | @essexenergy | @essexenergy Turn Key Solar PV Solutions