Brownfields not always ‘big and scary’: Orillia official
Brownfields not always ‘big and scary’: Orillia official
A decade ago no one gave serious thought to developing a high-profile vacant property in downtown Orillia because of its century-long record of industrial uses that left behind heavy metals, PCBs, VOCs, dioxins and “pretty much everything imaginable.” To...
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