March 2017 | Business View Magazine

194 195 Goderich, Ontario Water, energy and environmental services for sustainability and humanprogress twitter:@veolia_na www.veolianorthamerica.com GOderich Convenient post-secondary programming focused on careers and life in the community. n Full-time Programs n Part-time Studies n General Interest Courses fanshawec.ca/GOderich found that if you don’t get those plans developed, you’re missing out on a potential opportunity. Develop- ers coming in don’t want to see just open fields; they want to see something that has infrastructure.” Another project, just underway, is the potential of approximately 300 new homes that can be built on 200 acres of land that was recently boundary-adjusted into the town. “The developer, Fusion Homes, is cur- rently going through the design phases with our en- gineer and their engineer to get all the infrastructure ready, and they want to proceed in the near future,” says Wilson. “Also, the town just went through a water- front master plan and over the next two to three years, we’re going to be implementing some of the ideas that came out of public workshops, for re-doing our water- front. So those are a couple of major projects.” Meanwhile, McCabe adds that the town has been busy with other projects, as well. “We built a $19 mil- lion recreation facility and opened it in 2004, and we turned its operation over to the Sarnia-Lambton YMCA,” he says. “At the same time, we doubled the size of our Carnegie Library for $2 million, and on the heels of that we built a $5 million medical clinic.We have all the doctors in town under leases – some 12 or 13 doc- tors and more that we’re working on. And we’re getting ready now to move into a $1.7 million addition to that facility.” There has also been considerable rebuilding of prop- erties that were leveled or damaged by the F3 tornado that ripped through Goderich on August 21, 2011. “It did between $200 and $250 million worth of damage,” McCabe says, “both in the residential area and the commercial area. So we’ve gone through a build-up of properties that were destroyed.”