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2001 good year for construction

By Walter Franczyk Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2002 A healthy home building and renovation market combined with big projects at Sudbury Regional Hospital and Cambrian College fueled 2001 as Sudbury's best construction season in five years.
By Walter Franczyk
Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2002

A healthy home building and renovation market combined with big projects at Sudbury Regional Hospital and Cambrian College fueled 2001 as Sudbury's best construction season in five years.

Work at the college and hospital boosted the value of institutional construction to more than $63 million, nearly double the level of 2000. That represented nearly half of all construction in the city last year.

Residential construction of more than $40 million, saw 202 new homes built and $14 million spent on renovations, according to statistics from the city's building department.

"It was a good year," said Ron Martin, executive director of the Sudbury Construction Association.

New commercial building, however, dropped from $17 million in 2000 to just over $10 million last year.

"The commercial market was good for a couple of years with the box stores. That seems to have slowed down," Martin observed.

Industrial activity was also down. It dropped from $12.3 million in 2000 to $9 million last year.

Mother nature shares some responsibility for the busy construction season last year.

Guido Mazza, the city's chief building officer, said the insurance industry took out a significant number of building permits for roof repairs last spring.

Repairs were made necessary by damage from heavy snowfalls last winter and spring.

Some roofs collapsed in older areas of the city while other areas saw significant roof damage, he explained.

New Commercial Projects 2001
Dalron Construction, 1361 Paris St. $910,000
Petro Canada, 1190 Barrydowne Rd. $923,700
Freskiw Farms 2093 Skead Road $40,128
1468740 Ontario Inc. car wash 3119 Hwy 69N $130,000
Nor-Eng Construction, 206 Fielding Road $120,000
Rain Investments, 119 Cedar St. $573,300
Total New Commercial $2,697,128

New Industrial Projects 2001
Loblaws, 82 Lorne St. $2,648,900
Nova Contracting, 2095 Armstrong $200,000
Gravelle Holdings, 878 Falconbridge Rd. $256,000
Falconbridge Ltd. 6 Edison $150,000
Ministry of Transportation, 162 Hwy 17E. $330,000
Total New Industrial $3,584,900

Building Projects Anticipated in 2002
Sudbury Airport Terminal Expansion $5.44 million
Cancer Treatment Centre $20 million
Dynamic Earth (Phase 1) $4 million
David Street Water Plant $21 million
St. Joseph's Long Term Care Facility $14 million
Sudbury District Health Unit $2.5 million
Centre Communitaire Residential de Coniston $1.5 million
Valley East Long Term Care Centre $8 million
Church of Latter Day Saints $1.2 million
Sudbury Regional Hospital $50 million
Alert Care - Dalron Seniors Complex $5 million
Mausoleum Civic Memorial (Phase 2) $850,000
Rayside-Balfour Public Works Dept. $1 million
Cambrian College SuperBuild $3 million
Pioneer Manor Expansion $20 million
Valley East Separate Secondary $4 million
Alertech Fire Centre - Trillium Centre $1 million

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