The Dunnville Wal-Mart project is still alive although progress is moving along at a very slow pace.
"They are optimistic they will work out something with the First Nation," said Coun. Lorne Boyko.
On Feb. 8, he spoke to a representative of Calloway REIT, the company that owns the 17-acre property on Taylor Road. "The project's a go but it's moving very slowly," confirmed the councillor.
Wal-Mart is still part of the Dunnville Shopping Centre plan, he added.
With zoning and official plan approvals issued by Haldimand County, the super-store and 11 other shops represented over 200 jobs. Approvals for the TSC store at the corner of Broad Street and Highway 3 have been appealed to the Ontario Municipal Board. This store would bring in another 35 jobs.
If construction would be allowed to go ahead, those jobs would be a reality, said Boyko.
These job opportunities are actual employee positions related to approved projects unlike forecasts of 450 jobs in not yet proposed enterprises in the Frank Marshall Business Park, he pointed out. Haldimand County invested about $2 million in water and sewer services in this municipally owned industrial park.