Tag: Local Business
Jobs, jobs, jobs: Amazon hiring 2,000 workers for London-area fulfillment centre
Amazon will hire more than 2,000 workers for its London-area plant when it opens early in 2023, about 500 more than it had planned, an Amazon official said Friday.
‘Fantastic’: New food distribution centre to create 200 local jobs
Construction will begin this spring in Ingersoll on a $39-million distribution centre for Dot Foods Canada, bringing 200 jobs to the area, the company said Wednesday. “We’ve had some great investment into our town and certainly this one is fantastic,” Ingersoll Mayor Ted Comiskey said. The facility, which will cover 126,500 square feet (11,500 square […]
Affordable housing units bump up size of proposed London apartment
An eight-storey apartment building may rise near Sarnia and Wonderland roads after a city council committee approved the 129-unit development Tuesday. The recommendation by council’s planning and environment committee for the proposed mid-rise tower at 520 Sarnia Rd. will go to city council for final approval. Horizen Developments plans to build the tower on the […]
7,000 London-area job openings, an old-fashioned push to fill them
‘We shouldn’t discount the value of in-person job fairs’
Builders urge city to tap federal budget billions to speed home construction
London builders will push the city to tap into a $4-billion federal fund to speed new home construction. The London Development Institute (LDI) and London Home Builders’ Association (LHBA) threw their support Friday behind the recent federal budget, calling it “a genuine effort” to increase housing supply, support new home buyers and make housing more […]