Development to begin on Churchill Industrial Park on 28 Street North
Development will begin soon in a high-profile location in north Lethbridge.
Residential, commercial and light industrial facilities are expected to rise on the long-vacant site on 28 Street North.
The 32.8-acre property surrounds the Global Television building on three sides. The Churchill Industrial Park land was once covered by guy wires supporting a much taller transmitter tower.
Lethbridge businessman Ken Harvey, a partner in the recent purchase, says a site development plan is in place and construction of the deep utilities — water, sewer and stormwater — is scheduled to begin this fall.
“We have already stripped the land,” he reports.
Streets, sidewalks and the shallow utilities will follow in the spring.
While residential development is expected along the western edge of the property — facing homes on the other side of 28 Street — Harvey says local businesses have proposed a variety of uses farther east.
Vehicle access, he points out, would be from 29 Street.
“We’ve already been marketing the project,” he says, and it’s attracting interest.
Harvey says the six-acre site in the middle, being used by Global and a local home construction company, is not part of the plan. It’s owned by another Lethbridge businessman.
Now one of the last remaining parcels in the Churchill area, the property was purchased in the 1950s as local television stations began to open across Canada. The city’s first TV station, CJLH-TV was a joint partnership between CJOC radio and the Lethbridge Herald.
Says Harvey, “The property was at the very fringe of the city” back then.
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