Business View Magazine | November 2019

250 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 The Town of Grimsby has gone through many changes over the years, from being a small rural village to a center for the manufacture of farm machinery, hospital furniture, furnaces, and other metal products, and, later, the hub of the Niagara Peninsula’s fruit-growing industry. Grimsby also had a successful fishing industry which lasted until the 1960s. The Town of Grimsby and the Township of North Grimsby were amalgamated in 1970 with the formation of the Regional Municipality of Niagara. With a number of wineries and distilleries, Grimsby now serves as the starting point for touring the Niagara wine region. Grimsby has a population of around 30,000 and is growing rapidly. Its location – an hour from Toronto, and 30 minutes from the U.S. border – its small-town character, and its many unique features make it a great place to live and do business. In fact, this past August, Grimsby was voted the 2nd best community in Maclean’s Survey of Canada’s Best Communities. (Macleans is a Canadian news magazine, founded in 1905, that reports on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and current events.) The town has 17 community parks, 33 neighborhood parks, and many more green spaces, sport fields, parkettes, trails, and facilities. Three interchanges on the Queen Elizabeth Way highway allow road access to Grimsby from the larger urban centers of Toronto and Hamilton, and in 2021, a new Metrolinx Go Station will open west of, and adjacent to, Casablanca Blvd., with service on the Lakeshore West Line, one of the seven train lines of the GO Transit system in the Greater Toronto area. Mayor Jeff Jordan says he would like to see Grimsby continue to develop without sacrificing its small-town ambience or its abundance of green spaces, and in a manner that preserves the town for its future residents. For example, when the new Go Station opens, he notes that the town council will work to develop the area around it “as a viable community, developed with green practices and the latest technology available. The construction we’re looking at is to think outside the box and Heavy Construction Excellence since 1984 1 905-357-3176 HONESTY. COMMITMENT. QUALITY. RESIDENTIAL SERVICING • COMMERCIAL SERVICING • MUNICIPAL SERVICES www.nexterrasubstructures.com