Business View Magazine September 2018

278 279 with the Goderich Port Man- agement Corporation and the Province of Ontario, is mov- ing forward with $16 million infilling programwhich is creating five new acres of new land for expanded operations. The Recreation Park Project, a $4 million development with three ball diamonds, a skateboard park, a soccer pitch and pavilion with accessible washrooms will be completed in 2018.” Wilson: “Goderich was successful in winning $250,000 towards the rebuild of the Recreation Park from Kraft Heinz Project Play which was a Canada-wide contest. That really speaks to the community spirit and pride that we have here. Construction started in the park last fall. They’re now in the process of putting in irrigation and sports netting, fencing and landscaping will follow. The Recreation Park Revi- talization Committee will seek public input in the fall with a park naming campaign. “In addition to our ex- tensive waterfront, we just constructed a new set of stairs at the Goderich Lighthouse including a bike trough, so people can access cycling routes along the waterfront. Stairs on the south end, installed two years ago, now offer end to end accessibility from the top of the bluff down to the waterfront. Just putting in those stairs was a quarter of a million dollars funded from the waterfront reserve.” GODERICH, ONTARIO CHIP WILSON DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS LARRY MCCABE CAO BVM: Any industrial development in the works? McCabe: “We’re in the preliminary stages of earmarking 35 acres for new industrial development.The engineers are currently working to discover what needs to be done to achieve this goal. One very exciting project moving for- ward is the Compressed Air Energy Stor- age (CAES) technology that NRStor has developed.The building has been con- structed and the necessary equipment is being installed.This project has the capability of producing 1.7MWof elec- tricity, as a pilot project, but we expect it will bring national and international in- terest here to explore facility operations. It may stimulate other development of compressed air energy throughout the world. Activity at the Bruce Nuclear Plant is having spin-off effects to communities within 30 to 40 miles and Goderich