The Windsor-Essex region is booming with ongoing construction activity and new development. In addition to the Gordie Howe International Bridge and the proposed new regional hospital for urgent and acute care, the Region's commercial, industrial and residential developments continue to grow in the area.
Private sector development
Windsor-Essex is experiencing a rapid growth of private sector investment and development. Recent and ongoing projects include:
- $12.5 million new manufacturing facility currently being built at Rosati Group's Grand Central Business Park
- Two commercial parcels of land with 2.74 acres of redevelopment at Farhi Holdings Corporation's 1600 Lauzon Road, next to the WFCU Centre
- Private hotel and hospitality expansions, comprising over 600 new suites or bedrooms in the City of Windsor, including the Best Western PLUS (306 rooms), Holiday Inn Express (156 rooms) and the Hilton DoubleTree (161 rooms)
- Opening of the new 105-room Holiday Inn Express in Lakeshore
- Opening of the new 128-suite Marriott TownePlace Suites Windsor, following a $10 million renovation of the former downtown Quality Suites hotel
- $70 million in renovations made to Windsor's largest enclosed mall, Devonshire Mall, including a new food court and retail space
- Re-purposing of a 378,000 sq. ft. former General Motors Transmission Plant building on Walker Road into a new U-Haul facility, offering truck and trailer rentals, towing equipment, moving supplies and boxes
Public sector construction projects
- Opening of the University of Windsor School of Creative Arts, following a renovation of the former Armouries building, accommodating 60,000 sq. ft. of space for students and faculty
- Opening of the new 120,000 sq. ft., $44 million Windsor City Hall
- Meadowbrook public housing project and St. Clair College student housing
Residential development
There are many recent and ongoing major residential and housing developments that are helping Windsor-Essex continue growing as a thriving, bustling community. This is being accomplished through purpose-built public housing, student housing and market housing.
Current major development projects include:
- $39-million, 10-storey, 145-unit Meadowbrook Lane public housing project
- $35-million series of three, seven-storey condominium buildings with 60 units each, developed by Eastside Horizons
- $23-million student housing project at St. Clair College's South Windsor Campus, accommodating 512 students
- Large, mixed-use development near Lauzon Parkway that will include 278 single-family residential walk-up units over nine acres and 119 single-family and detached homes over 14 acres by Farhi Holdings Corporation
View additional recent housing stats in Invest WindsorEssex's Five Year Strategic Plan and through our quarterly reports.