Owen Sound agrees to sell road allowance for apartment proposal

Owen Sound agrees to sell road allowance for apartment proposal

Owen Sound is taking steps to sell a portion of an unopened road allowance to facilitate the construction of an apartment building on the city’s east side.

City Making Vacant Land on Frederick Avenue Available for Affordable Housing

A 15.24-metre-wide parcel of vacant land on Frederick Avenue that was set aside in 1906 to become a roadway will instead become an affordable housing site. Anyone walking past would see it as a vacant piece of property and wonder why there is a gap where two houses should be. In fact, the land is “road allowance,” registered in 1906 to become part of what is today Edinburgh Avenue – a road that terminates one street east at Province Street North…

Mid-rise apartments move forward on John Street Road.

THUNDER BAY — A pair of eight-storey apartment buildings planned in the city's north end are one step closer to becoming reality,