[marcus_a_j]

Large new manufacturing facility in Seaton at Whites Rd and Hwy 407 known as FGF Food Manufacturing Campus. Five one-storey buildings with over 1 million sf of GFA. The site is currently farmland but is intended to be for employment uses. There is one other industrial development in the area (Kubota). Good to see employment development within Seaton as most of what's been built/approved has been residential.

From City of Pickering's Development Application Webpage

Caplink Limited has submitted applications for a Draft Plan of Subdivision and Zoning By-law Amendment to facilitate a food manufacturing facility consisting of five buildings, including four manufacturing plants and one distribution centre. The proposed Draft Plan of Subdivision contains four blocks for the employment uses, one block for a stormwater management facility, one block for a natural heritage feature, one block for a future road widening and a new public street (see Concept Plan). The Zoning By-law Amendment proposes to rezone the lands to an appropriate zone category to permit the proposed uses and establishing appropriate development standards.

From the Planning Report / Urban Design Brief

 

[innsertnamehere]

it's interesting to see Seaton finally developing. For those not aware, these are all former provincially owned lands that were originally expropriated in the 1970's in relation to the then-planned Pickering Airport, much of which the province traded in the early 2000's with developers for other lands in the Oak Ridges Moraine which they were proposing to develop. Those traded lands, mostly in northern Richmond Hill and just south of Uxbridge, are now parks and protected, and these lands were added to Pickering's urban area and are only now being developed.

The Seaton Area is still a fairly sensitive area environmentally, so it took a very, very long time for development approvals to work their way through.

This trade was also a large contributing factor to the creation of the Greenbelt and Places to Grow.

 

[Coolibop]

Will be the largest food manufacturing campus in the GTA once built out according to the Mayor's tour video.

 

[JBR]

 

[innsertnamehere]

Wait, so FGF brands owns basically every major bread brand? Jeez.

 

[interchange42]

Wait, so FGF brands owns basically every major bread brand? Jeez.

Dempsters, Stonemill, Dimpflmeier, Rudolph's are among those that escape the roundup. Meanwhile, nice of them to invite Grimace to the sod turning, but with an orange instead of purple face.

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