By Craig Westcott
The Town of CBS has hired Miller Equipment Rental to conduct site preparation work on Lot 1, The Gateway, in Kelligrews.
The Gateway is the Town’s industrial and commercial park at the top of Legion Road. After more than a decade of marketing, the over 100-acre site still hasn’t reached the goal of becoming a regional commercial centre as originally envisioned by the council that proposed and approved it. However, it does house the new CBS Arena, a large Kent building supplies store, a Tim Horton’s restaurant and Wingin’ It restaurant, and is also the proposed site for the Town’s new community centre, when funding to build it becomes available.
Miller Equipment will be paid $92,000 plus HST to conduct the site work. The work is unrelated to the proposed Rec Centre, but instead being done to have it ready for a potential industrial or commercial buyer should one turn up.
“We just have to be ready should anything come up in the future, we need to be able to receive materials and stuff for the site,” said Ward 4 councillor Melissa Hardy, who chairs council’s engineering committee. “So, we’re just trying to get ahead of it.”
