C.S. Wind, as reported, purchased this building from Valiant Tool, as their new manufacturing location. The building located on Anchor Drive against the expressway between Lauzon & Banwell, has seen the Valiant signs come down and C.S. Wind ones go up in the last few weeks, but the real story is taking place to the rear.
The property stretches all the way back to Twin Oaks Drive, and it’s along Twin Oaks where a huge expansion is taking place.
Over the last few weeks the steel has been going up…
…and work is progressing, and the building is starting to take shape. It may not look like much, but…
… when you zoom in and see the workers on the roof, a better idea of the scale of this project is seen.
Expansion is good, especially given that this is still the initial set-up phase. Even though it is more manufacturing, any jobs being created in this City is a positive.
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Thanks for the update Andrew!
If I had to guess, I would say this was going to be where they load the towers onto rail cars. BUT…I still can’t really figure out how the tracks are going to come to the building, aside from wraping around that odd shaped one to the east and come close to Anchor drive. Then they’d have to make a sharp curve/s-bend to reach this new portion.
I dunno. Any signs of a right-of-way being constucted?
You can call me a skeptic when it comes to the Ontario government’s “green energy” plans. After all, it takes a lot of energy to fabricate, transport and assemble wind turbines. Trucks and trains don’t run on solar energy and neither do the mines where the raw materials that go into wind turbines and solar panels are found. I think all the effort McGuinty’s spending on wind turbines and solar panels could be put to better use by rehabilitating Windsor’s core and encouraging locally-owned and operated enterprises that wouldn’t be dependent on a 2000 mile-long supply chain. What do you think?
Well…at least these parts will move by train. Probably the greenest method we have right now.
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Built over top of some of the fairways I walked in my youth.