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Old Posted Feb 3, 2007, 11:34 PM
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^^^ I don't think you have to worry about safety when the majority of new developement is upper middle class homes. I for one think the developement is fantastic, and that its been along time waiting. Still Id rather see more being done downtown and less satilite communities and suburbs. But thats the trend in North America so what can you do?
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Old Posted Feb 10, 2007, 1:51 AM
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Housing starts soar in January

Fri, February 9, 2007

By HANK DANISZEWSKI, SUN MEDIA



The launch of a new downtown apartment project in January got London housing construction off to the best start in 25 years.

The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) said there were 406 housing starts in the London-St. Thomas area in January compared to only 134 in the same month last year.

But CMHC analyst Penny Wu cautioned that 300 of the housing starts came from a single project -- the 28 storey Tricar Group apartment tower in downtown London.

The single family-detached home starts, a more reliable indicator of construction activity, remained flat with 102 starts compared to 106 in January, 2006.

Wu said big apartment projects were a driving force in pushing London's housing starts to 3,674 last year.

The city smashed the old record for building permits with a total value of $733 million for permits issued in 2006.

About 1,800 apartment units are under construction, said Wu, and the market may become saturated as those units come on the market in the next two years.

"It seems like every major builder has a project on the go already," she said.

In the aftermath of the Tricar launch, February housing starts are likely to be much lower, but the housing market is still healthy.

"Single detached home starts are still close to last year's level and we are expecting that February's will be as well," said Wu.

Housing permits were also up in Ontario and across Canada last month.

Ontario's seasonally-adjusted housing starts jumped to 76,700 units last month with increases in both the single and multiple units.

Regional analyst Ted Tsiakopoulos said the gains came despite slower job growth in the province and a loss of migrants to western Canada.

He said low interest rates and consumer confidence is continuing to support the market.

Across Canada the CMHC report said urban starts jumped 19.2 per cent to 216,300 units.

Actual single starts in urban areas were 14.3 per cent lower in January 2007 than they were a year earlier, with all regions showing a decline, while urban multiple starts last month were up 37.7 per cent.
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Summerside Shopping Centre Update

For those in London's South East

The Summerside Shopping Centre is well under way and its first set of tenants are expected to move in by early summer, with the rest (likely Rona and Loblaws) set for early next year.

Any word on the fate of Pond Mills Square?
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Shriners again threaten to leave

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Shriners again threaten to leave
2007-02-16 06:13:02

The new Shriners hospital in Montreal is again in jeopordy. The Gazette reports high level Shriners are again threatening to close their current children's orthopedic hospital on Cedar and build the new facility in London, Ontario. They say both the Quebec government and the MUHC broke their promises to decontamintate the entire Glen yards site and start construction in the Spring of 2006. The Shriners say the last part of the Glen yards has not been decontaminated. But the government says the area slated for the Shriners hosptial has been decontaminated, and the remaining 10 percent that hasn't been will be for a grass area. A spokesperson for Health Minister Phillippe Couillard says the Shriners should not have any worries, adding everything that must be decontaminated has been certified decontaminated by the Quebec Environment department.
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Old Posted Feb 17, 2007, 2:55 AM
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I'm back it's been one week with out the internet. I was on internet withdrawal! :nuts:
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Old Posted Feb 17, 2007, 2:58 AM
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Shriners Hospital May Yet Come to London

One year after choosing Montreal over London, the Shriners may be reconsidering the location of their new children's hospital.
The Shriners' leadership says the Quebec government is not living up to its promise to decontaminate the land where the hospital was to be built. Instead, published reports indicate the land will be covered with a membrane and a layer of grass.

Construction was to have begun last year, but has already been delayed until 2008.

That's not good enough for the Shriners according to Treasurer Gene Bracewell, who is raising the possibility of moving the hospital to London. In fact, a report in the Montreal Gazette suggests the Shriners are going to revive and reconsider the London bid.

Tourism London's John Winston, and London West MPP Chris Bentley says the door here never closed to the Shriners, and they are still more than welcome.
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Shriners Reconsider London for Kids' Hospital

Hold the phone on London not getting the new Shriners Hospital for Children.

The Montreal Gazette is reporting high level Shriners are again threatening to pull out of Montreal and build the new hospital in London.

The paper says the Shiners feel the Quebec government and the McGill Health Centre did not follow through on promises the centre made.

A major problem is apparently McGill's announcement it won't clean up a portion of a contaminated site where the a new hospital is to be built in Montreal.

As a result senior Shriner Gene Bracewell says the London proposal -dead since 2005 - will likely be reconsidered.
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I visited downtown London this week, the city is looking pretty good. Overall things look quite healthy. I see there are three cranes and a couple other new highrises downtown since I moved about 4 years ago. I made a photo thread in the city photos section if you guys are interested:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=125840


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Even more interesting for you guys, on the second page of the above photothread, I've posted some old pictures, including the old Covent Garden Market, the destruction of the CN Tower, and the construction of the JLC.

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Lombardo museum may broaden its scope

Lombardo museum may broaden its scope

Mon, February 26, 2007

By KELLY PEDRO, SUN MEDIA



Guy Lombardo would share the spotlight with other musicians at the museum that bears his name as part of a proposed redevelopment of Wonderland Gardens.

City staff are recommending the community and protective services committee approve a plan that would recreate the Guy Lombardo Music Centre to focus on the musical heritage of the former Wonderland Gardens.

The recommendation goes before the committee today.

"Attendance in the current form (at the museum) has been quite low," said Ross Fair, the city's general manager of community services who oversees the museum's operation.

"Council is looking for a way to better organize and market the centre."

Last year, 1,401 people visited the Wonderland Road museum and attendance figures have never dropped below 1,000, said Douglas Flood, president of Friends of Lombardo, a not-for-profit volunteer-run operation.

Part of the city's plan is to include the Lombardo centre in redevelopment plans for Wonderland Gardens, razed by fire in 2005, Fair said.

The recreated centre would showcase the history of all performers during Wonderland Gardens' 80-year history, including Lombardo, a London native, in an effort to attract more visitors.

Using storyboards, audio and photographs, the centre could become an interpretative centre with self-guided audio tours, city staff said in a report. It would cost about $25,000.

Flood, whose personal collection represents about half the items on display, said he doesn't think visitors will like the new set-up.

"I don't really care for that type of an operation," he said. "To me, it's boring."

If approved, the new centre would be phased in over two years and reopen in the summer of 2008 -- without one key piece of Lombardo's collection.

The city plans to put Lombardo's speedboat, the Tempo VII, into storage -- a move Flood disagrees with.

Lombardo was a top speed- boat racer in the 1940s and '50s. He was U.S. national speedboat champion from 1946 to 1949 and scored his two biggest victories in the 1946 Gold Cup and 1948 Ford Memorial competitions in Detroit.

Lombardo was inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame in 2003.

Until the centre reopens in 2008, city staff said it will be business as usual at the museum until September 2007, when it will close while changes are made.

Part of the recommendation also gives the Friends of Lombardo a chance to submit a business plan within 90 days for the long-term management of the museum.

Flood said yesterday the Friends of Lombardo won't be submitting a business plan.

Lombardo and his band remain Canada's biggest-selling recording artists, with more than 300 million albums sold.

Lombardo died in 1977
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Old Posted Feb 27, 2007, 4:15 AM
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Old Posted Feb 27, 2007, 9:18 AM
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^^ I'm happy to see those going up, since Im still a card carrying communist. urgh.
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Thought this might be of interest to the London forumers...

I was talking with a client of mine who rents space in the Wright Lithography building downtown (Wellington near Dundas). She told me that Farhi just bought the building and has told his clients that they have two years to find new space. The building is right beside the old library. Does this mean that he is going to knock down the building for parking for his library tower or would he build a tower where the Wright building is?

Also, if you go to Farhi's website (fhc.ca), you can see that this guy owns a lot of property downtown...including that big chunk of land just north of the courthouse.

I don't think that we have seen the last of the towers downtown. Farhi will build something nice in the next couple of years and Drewlo looks like they will build something too. Add to this all the buildings that have been built, and we could say that London is definately in a residential tower boom. Once again, I don't know of any other Canadian city of similar size that is building anywhere near what London is. Even Hamilton, Winnipeg, Quebec City which are quite a bit bigger aren't building many towers downtown.
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Old Posted Mar 1, 2007, 3:36 PM
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I couldn't say it beter my self.
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Two plants, 600 jobs

Here's some more good news for the city!:banana:

Two plants, 600 jobs

Thu, March 1, 2007

Two auto parts suppliers are to announce their plans for London within four months.

By NORMAN DE BONO, SUN MEDIA



KITCHENER -- London is poised to land two new auto parts plants, creating up to 600 jobs, sources say.

A Southwestern Ontario commercial real estate conference, held by CB Richard Ellis, heard yesterday that major industrial projects are on the horizon for London as the manufacturing sector booms.

"We will see some additional plants coming to London soon," said Peter Whatmore, senior vice- president in London of CB Richard Ellis Ltd.

Whatmore declined comment on details of the development. But sources in the manufacturing sector confirmed two parts suppliers, more than 100,000 square feet each, will be announced for the privately-owned Gateway Industrial Park within four months.

The new investments would supply parts to other plants that make components for auto assembly plants.

"There have been layoffs and closings in manufacturing, but there have also been new contracts, new players and overall there is a balance," Whatmore said.

"London is steady as she goes."

John Kime, president and chief executive of the London Economic Development Corp., declined comment on reports of the new industries.

Still, he agreed London's industrial land remains in demand as the city's manufacturing sector continues to defy a national downward trend.

"It has been surprisingly resilient despite everything that is going on," said Kime.

The land availability rate in London's industrial sector is stable at 6.3 per cent.

Statistics Canada reported London gained 3,500 manufacturing jobs during the quarter that ended in January, while Ontario lost 54,500 manufacturing jobs over the same period and the rest of Canada 42,000.

London's new automotive parts assembly plants will join a 520,000-square-foot project by O.R.E. Development Corp. at Highway 401 and Highbury Avenue, a centre for trucking and shipping, said Whatmore.

"There has been a softening of the economy overall, but the industrial sector remains strong here and we think it will for the next few years," said Whatmore.

Don Drummond, chief economist with TD Financial Group, wasn't surprised by news of industrial growth in London and area.

The city is enjoying a boost from Woodstock's new Toyota assembly plant, he said, and has a diversified economy with manufacturing, financial services, health care, education and services, including technology businesses, rounding out the employment scene.

Still, he cautioned London remains challenged by a cooling U.S. economy and competition from emerging markets in Asia in all sectors -- manufacturing, technology and even life sciences.

"London will get a pickup in manufacturing, but their woes are not behind them," he warned. "The emerging economies are penetrating virtually every sector right now."

The Kitchener conference heard industrial land values in London and Woodstock are held "artificially low" because the cities are the developers.

London posted the cheapest industrial land in Southwestern Ontario, lower than Woodstock and Windsor, at less than $100,000 an acre, compared to nearly $300,000 in Waterloo.

London is also the cheapest place to build, with land and construction costs totalling less than $5 a square foot, compared to more than $10 in Waterloo.

The conference also heard of commercial and industrial land parcels attracting more than 10 purchase bids and vacant land hard to come by throughout Southwestern Ontario.

From Windsor to Waterloo investment in industrial land grew by 14.7 per cent from 2005 to 2006, from $150 million to $176 million, CB Richard Ellis reported.
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Job Boom at London's Diamond Aircraft

More good news for london! But I hered that Workers at the London Siemens VDO plant are wondering about its future following Friday's company announcement it was moving most of the production from its Chatham plant to Mexico.


Job Boom at London's Diamond Aircraft

London's aerospace industry may be small, but it is about to undergo massive expansion.
Diamond Aircraft is preparing to hire up to 500 new workers to meet the demand for it's new D-Jet.

The new jet is priced at $1.3M, which is low enough to attract a lot of interest from people who otherwise couldn't afford a jet.

The company is already hiring, and with a $10,000,000 loan from the province, the boom could spin off across the entire Forest City economy.

And Diamond is also eager to obtain a federal government loan.

Some of the government money will be used to conduct a search for workers with exactly the skills Diamond will need.

With both loans in place, D-Jet production could be at full throttle by next summer.
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^^^ I thought Farhi wanted to knock down a bunch a buildings to provide parking. Parking appears to be his priority for his London properties for the near future. He likely acquired this latest property to make it into a surface lot.
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I really hope the Wright Lithography building isn't torn down for a parking lot. There's so much parking in downtown London it's not even funny.
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