Thunder Bay shifts into high gear to develop trucking centre. (Transporation).Thunder Bay Thunder Bay, city (1991 pop. 113,946), SW Ont., Canada, on Thunder Bay inlet of Lake Superior. The city was created in 1970 by the amalgamation of the twin cities of Fort William and Port Arthur and two adjoining townships. may abandon the original concept of a "prestige business park" and turn the property into a truck plaza to service the needs of truckers. Truck plazas provide a variety, of services for truckers, ranging from fuel and maintenance facilities to showers and lounges. The park is ideally situated for truckers. It is on the TransCanada Highway where the vast majority of trucks travel through the city. Moreover, the location provides expressway access to the centre of the city, says Rene Larson, a Thunder Bay city coundillor. Truck plazas require adequate space to allow big rigs to manoeuvre for fuelling and parking. Innova Park, as it is known, offers 71 acres with lot sizes ranging from 0.3 hectares to 3.2 hectares. Lot prices start at $70,000. "There's been a keen interest by oil companies in establishing a trucking centre in the city," says Larson. It was Larson's idea for the park that prompted the city's economic development department to study the concept. Larson says one of major factors that makes Innova Park attractive for a trucking centre is that it has full municipal services This article or section deals primarily with the United Kingdom and does not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , unlike many other truck stops in Northern Ontario Northern Ontario is the part of the province of Ontario which lies north of Lake Huron (including Georgian Bay), the French River and Lake Nipissing. Northern Ontario has a land area of 802,000 km² (310,000 mi²) and constitutes 87% of the land area of Ontario, although it that have to rely on septic fields and well water. Richard Pohler, a development officer with Development Thunder Bay who is gathering information for a report on the idea for Thunder Bay city council The Thunder Bay City Council is the governing body of the City of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. It consists of a mayor and twelve councillors. The mayor and five of the councillors are elected at large, the one councillor being elected for each of the city's seven wards: Current , says the four oil companies he approached all expressed interest in the preliminary concept Pohler says he talked with Petro-Canada, Shell Canada Shell Canada Limited (TSX: SHC) is one of Canada's largest integrated oil companies. Exploration and production of oil, natural gas and sulphur is a major part of its business, as well as the marketing of gasoline and related products through the company's approximately 1,800 , Husky Oil and Esso (Imperial Oil). "We have a lot of-questions that need to be answered, but we're interested and want to hear more," says John Hamilton John Hamilton may refer to:
Hamilton says for the past couple of years Petro-Canada has been searching for a property in the area that has lots of room for trucks to manoeuvre. "We want to establish a state-of-the-art trucking centre," Hamilton says. He says Petro-Canada has 200 centres across Canada Across Canada was an afternoon program that formerly aired on The Weather Network. The segment ran from early 1999 until mid 2002. The show ran from 3:00PM ET until 7:00 PM ET. that service trucks, ranging from small single-pump facilities to larger facilities that contain restaurants, showers, weigh scales, vacuums and trucker lounges. Larson says there is only, one business on the Innova Park property. "The city has about $4 million invested in Innova Park, not counting interest," he says. |
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