Business View Magazine | November 2020

280 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2020 corner to it; you’ve got access to the 401, to the 418; if you have a condo you’d have a view of Lake Ontario on one side and the Oak Ridges Moraine on the other. The original plan was for that to be employment land, but it didn’t make sense given the spectacular location, so the vision is now mixed-use and developers are extremely interested. It’s a blank slate. There is real opportunity there for transit-oriented development. “We are also having a significant hospital expansion. This project really speaks to the confidence in our economy by different levels of government because they’re investing so much in the infrastructure here. In terms of institutional presence, it’s called a redevelopment of the hospital but in reality they’ll be building a new hospital – doubling the size of Bowmanville Memorial, which is quite old now. We have a commitment for that and we’re just tidying up the fundraising for a hospice to be built. In Newcastle. Clarington Council donated a two-acre portion of land to Durham Hospice for a brand new five-bedroom facility, which will offer end-of-life critical services to patients and families. And we have a zoning order from the Ministry of Health to build more long-term care beds. This will assist in filling a much-needed gap for affordable seniors’ housing in Clarington. The expansion will add 37 units, of which 30 will be affordable housing and will be located at the Parkview Seniors Lodge in Newcastle. So we’ve had a dollop of good stuff on the healthcare side, too.” Hall: “If you drove through Clarington, you’d see what looks like a whole lot of vacant land. We’re a large farming community and 80 percent of our land is protected by one legislation or another. So we have about five to ten acres of serviced industrial land available, right now. We’re getting creative and trying to push at the regional level to get some servicing put into the ground in south Courtice. The Region of Durham is probably three-quarters of the way through a main sewer trunk project to run from south