Swift Current, SK, Major Construction Projects

[armorand93]

Originally Posted by kalin_10

That's neat! Great job. Hopefully a city manager is a part of this forum for some ideas ahah

The other routes will time in with Route 1 transfers! Then, no one misses the bus

Glad to see my transit maps getting noticed. It's hard to get anyone to look at mine without getting ridiculed for it...

I bet local media though, look at SSP. They might see this and jump on it. Would be nice to see Swift Current with public transit!

[kalin_10]

Shawn Mullin
November 14, 2012
SwiftCurrentOnline.com

Swift Current's Munro Industrial Park is starting to see some additional interest and activity.

A company called Pal Pahel Holdings has agreed to buy an 0.8 acre parcel for a value added agricultural packaged snack food production facility, and the city has also agreed to an offer from Custom Truck Sales Holdings for a full service Kenworth dealership on a 4.4 acre parcel.

"Activity really does breed activity," said City Business Development Director Marty Salberg. "As you see more shops getting built, people take notice that it's very good property. It's got a great location along Highway 4, a high traffic count if you're looking at highway visibility in terms of sales. Once you see more and more buildings go up, you can kind of get a better feel for the industrial park, and I do know that we're seeing a lot more interest." [more]

[braunjo]

A sign recently put up showing a proposed site layout.

[kalin_10]

Originally Posted by braunjo

A sign recently put up showing a proposed site layout.

Any construction pictures?

[kalin_10]

Southwest Booster
January 3, 2013

Batco Manufacturing will be relocating into the current Urban Forest Recyclers Inc. facility in order to more than triple Batco's current manufacturing space, Ag Growth International Inc. highlighted in a major announcement earlier this afternoon.

Ag. Growth International announced an agreement to acquire the 114,000 square foot UFR facility, an acquisition substantially expanding Batco Manufacturing from their current 33,500 square foot facility on Swift Current's North Service Road.

"We had just outgrown all of the facilities that we had here. We've expanded a number of times over the years in the current facility, and it just got to the point where there wasn't sufficient room, nor the types of buildings that we needed to house the modern day manufacturing and powder coat line. So now, with our product growing the way it is, and us seeing the potential for a lot more growth," Batco Manufacturing General Manager Doug Weinbender said in an interview with The Booster.

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[braunjo]

New school pictures:





Personal Care Home:

[kalin_10]

Originally Posted by braunjo

New school pictures:





Personal Care Home:

Awesome pictures! Thanks for the update. Is there any other major construction projects in Swift Current? If so, any pictures?

[armorand93]

I hope that complex has a shuttlebus or something, thats a ton of parking spaces

[kalin_10]

Great Circle Airways gearing up for new group of student pilots
April 18, 2013
Southwest Booster

The latest venture by Swift Current's Great Circle Airways is helping new pilots get their wings, with a permanent flying school already graduating five students into certified pilots.

Great Circle Airways President Mike Campbell introduced a flight school to his operations this past fall and the opportunity was primarily a success despite the weather not cooperating over much of the winter. Their initial Flight School filled spots almost right away, and they have graduated five of this initial group of pilots so far. There are now a series of new people in the process of getting their pilots license which would qualify them to fly a single engine light airplane.

"It has been going good. It's a fit with the sightseeing flights that we do and the rest of what we're trying to bring to Swift Current," Campbell explained.

"We're coming into summer season when we could potentially handle another 20 students probably, and potentially get them through by fall."

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[kalin_10]

June 23, 2013
The Southwest Booster

Swift Current experienced Saskatchewan's largest year-over-year increase in apartment availability according to the most recent Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s (CMHC) Rental Market Survey.

Swift Current's apartment vacancy rate is at a provincial high 8.7 per cent, making the highest year-to-year jump after rising from only 2.8 per cent vacancy just one year ago.

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[kalin_10]

Wallace Construction of Swift Current will begin Phase 2 of their Sweet Water Estates called Crystal Waters. 69,000 SQ/FT over 3 floors with underground parking; Crystal Waters provides 23 exquisitely designed homes that will better support healthy, active living and appeal to your values. Living at Crystal Waters could be the best time in your life.



For sales brochure, click here

[kalin_10]

Photo of Joint School Construction Project from July 2013

[kalin_10]

The Star Phoenix
By Pamela Cowan
August 19, 2013


The first step in building the province’s first health-care facility using a public-private partnership (P3) model has been taken.

The Cypress Health Region has issued the request for qualifications (RFQ) from prospective builders to construct a new 225-bed long-term care facility in Swift Current. The RFQs must be submitted by Oct. 9.

“There is a set criteria that the proponents would be held to and then three are chosen and they are asked to submit under a request for proposals,” said Beth Vachon, CEO of the Cypress Health Region.

The builder will be selected by next spring and construction is slated to begin in July.

Five elements can potentially be part of a P3 model — design, build, financing, maintaining and operating.

“You can choose any of those components to make up the kind of P3 that you want to engage in,” Vachon said.

A private firm will be selected to design, build, finance and maintain the Swift Current facility, the region will operate it.

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[kalin_10]

The Southwest Booster
August 19, 2013


With Swift Current teachers and students preparing to return to classes, construction crews continue to bustle at a pair of city school project sites.

Construction crews are now on site beginning a major expansion project at Swift Current's Fairview School, while work at the Ecole Centennial School/All Saints Catholic School remains on schedule for that project to be completed for the start of the 2014-15 school year.

Chinook School Division Director of Education Liam Choo-Foo said the Division is excited about the dual construction projects.

A tender from Regina based Gabriel Construction was formally accepted for the Fairview School project at a special meeting of Chinook's Board of Education on June 24. With the school preparing to transition from a middle years school into a Kindergarten to Grade 8 school, the major project will involve adding a new gymnasium and reconfiguring other spaces into classrooms.

After putting their plans in place over the summer, Gabriel Construction crews are now on site and beginning excavation work on the east side of the school along with interior work in the existing change rooms.

"The Fairview project itself will be sort of a three phased project. We want to maintain the integrity of the existing gym for this school year so it's usable. So phase one will be building the new gym off to the east side, with as little disruption as possible for the regular flow of the school," Choo-Foo explained during an interview last Friday.

As new change rooms and shower rooms will be built as part of the new gymnasium, the current renovation inside the school will be to redevelop the existing change rooms into foyer/crush area space.

"Phases two and three will run a little bit more simultaneously. Phase two is the redevelopment of the existing gym into a resource centre or library, possibly with a glass-wall computer lab within it. And it's also going to have a mezzanine in it that will be open, and a few offices up there for some of the specialty personnel that come in, like Educational Psychologists, and Speech Language Pathologists.

"The existing library and computer lab and art room are all in the northwest quadrant of the school, so that quadrant is going to be then redeveloped into classrooms. That's where we'll get the extra capacity for the extra students that will be coming in."

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[kalin_10]

Mylocaltv.ca
August 20, 2013

Swift Current City Council has approved the sale of 1.00 acres of land in the Munro Industrial Park to Black Bridge Brewery Ltd. The Swift Current owned company purchased the land for $90 000 and plans to soon begin construction of a new building to house a micro-brewery business. No further details of an opening date or amount of jobs created by the business are available at this time.

Marty Salberg, the Director of Business Development for the City of Swift Current indicates interest continues in the Munro Industrial Park. With this latest purchase of land by Black Bridge Brewery, only 19 acres or 6 lots remain available before an expansion of industrial land will be necessary.

[kalin_10]

The StarPhoenix
Bruce Johnstone
August 27, 2013

Move over oil and gas, potash and uranium. Helium could be the next big thing in Saskatchewan if Bo Sears Jr., president of Weil Helium LLC of Dallas, has his way.

Weil Helium, part of the closely held Weil Group, is re-entering and re-completing two helium wells drilled in the mid-1960s in the Swift Current area. If successful, Sears believes that the project could launch a highly profitable business, given the growing shortage and rising cost of the inert gas.

"We're essentially re-entering some old well bores,'' Sears said in an interview. "These were shut in, awaiting the construction of a helium plant."

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[Chadillaccc]

That is good news. Sask booming all over the place!

[Bankview]

Swift Current, Saskatchewan

Population: 17,535 (2011)

The Rail Yards

Downtown From The Overpass


Central Avenue Looking South

Central Avenue Looking North

Warehouse District/Cheadle Street West

Central Avenue Businesses

[wacko]

Originally Posted by Bankview

Swift Current, Saskatchewan

Population: 17,535 (2011)

Nice pictures of Swift Current. My grandma lived there from 1970 until her death a few years ago. However, the 2011 Census of Canada lists the population of Swift Current as being 15,503, not 17,535.

[kalin_10]

Ryan Dahlman
Praire Post
September 6, 2013

When either socializing or enjoying recreational events, beer is arguably part of the Canadian culture. According to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, “an estimated 10 million Canadians drink beer and an estimated 21.9 million hectolitres are produced annually, making it the Number 1 alcoholic beverage in Canada in terms of both production and consumption.”

Many people enjoy a cold brew on a hot day, having a pint in social situations or at a recreational or sporting event. Some actually go to the extreme to make their own beer.

Swift Current couple Clayton and Kari Stenson recently announced the opening of Black Bridge Brewery — a first in Swift Current in recent memory.

“Clayton has always had a thing for beer,” says wife Kari. “The decision to open a microbrewery just felt right. I used my marketing background and Clayton his expertise in brewing it. We wanted to show we could do it,” explains Stenson who adds they aren’t looking to set the world on fire right away.

They have gathered their information and formulated a gradual game plan that will succeed instead of rushing into business. She points to that formula working for the Cypress Hills Winery and how successful they are now.

“That’s the way Saskatchewan is: (business) grows slowly. I’m encouraged by the growth in Swift Current and Saskatchewan. (Swift Current) doesn’t have a huge tourist base, but we do have some. (Southwest region) consumers are looking for something unique, something different.”

As the only beer distillery in Swift Current, it certainly is unique.

Clayton is no stranger to making his own brew. He’s been doing it for a long time. He started years ago when his in-laws gave him a beer-making kit.

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