Business View Magazine | March 2020

355 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 cheaper housing prices,” Therrien shares. “The population of the city proper is around 83,000 people. And that’s gone up in the last decade and we see it growing with new subdivisions and apartment complexes that are being built, right now. There are several that are being built in the downtown area, as well, taking advantage of heritage facades and expanding on their footprint. We are trying to emphasize intensification and building on brownfields and in the built-up areas, rather than greenfield sprawl.” “And because of that proximity to the Greater Toronto area, we know that we are forecast to grow by about 33,000 people over the next 22-25 years,” Keenan adds. “So, we are trying to systematically grow and manage that growth in a sustainable way.” Therrien adds that the city is investing heavily in sustainable infrastructure as it prepares for the new growth. “We had a big flood in 2004 and since then, there’s been an emphasis on ensuring that that doesn’t happen again,” she avers. “We have a project coming up along Bethune Street and that’s being financed by the city, as well as the provincial and federal governments. It’s a big project – it involves digging up that whole road and re-doing all the stormwater piping underneath. The end result is that we’ll be turning that stretch of road, essentially, into a linear park. So, right now, the emphasis there is on vehicular traffic, but we’re going to be moving a bit away from that. We’re going to have cycling lanes, a lot of pedestrian spaces, and limiting the amount of traffic that will be able to access that street.” In fact, the city is investing in many bike lanes and pedestrian trails. “One of the great things about our community is that we’re in close proximity to nature,” Therrien remarks. “We’re surrounded by cottage country, up here, and we’re fortunate to have some large swaths of greenspace within our urban center, as well. So, we try to make sure that the cycling and walking paths that traverse those outer green spaces are also connected to the cycling structure that If you’re ready, so are we. APPLY TODAY Peterborough | Lindsay | Haliburton | Cobourg PETERBOROUGH, ONTAR IO Quaker Oats Factory