If you live in Creekside in Collingwood, you might be interested in attending a public meeting being held tomorrow (June 29th) at 5:30 at the corner of Chamberlain Cres and Davis Street. Hosted by the Town of Collingwood Planning Services, they are looking for input on the design of a new park to be built [...]
People who know me, think I’m a confident sort of person. The truth is that I’m often not. Like most people, I worry about saying the wrong thing, about hurting someone’s feelings or about looking like a fool. Isn’t that pretty much human nature? Last week, I had the opportunity to talk with John Nichols [...]
There is a new kind of Shoppers Drug Mart such as the one in Wasaga Beach. They are big with wider aisles, less clutter and more selection. For some time now, the store in Collingwood has tried to move but delayed developments have stood in their way. That is about to change. First Street looked [...]
Have you ever been in such a surreal situation that you felt like you just walked onto a movie set by accident? That happened to me this past week-end. I was previewing a property for a client in the Wasaga Country Life development today. This is a Parkbridge project and they are the largest owner [...]
Way back in August 2008, I wrote a post about an old house I listed for sale in downtown Collingwood. That house fascinated me to no end as it was the only remaining residential house in our historic core and had been long abandoned in near original condition. Thankfully, the house sold to Cindy and Steve [...]
Our Collingwood and Blue Mountains region woke up to a smattering of snow this week, on more than one occasion. This picture of a gigantic snowball was taken two days ago, right in the middle of Collingwood! We’ve had another sprinkling of ‘white gold’ this morning as well, although the warmer temperature today has already melted [...]
I often get enquiries about the proposed Terrasan Craigleith Village Development planned along Highway 26 in Blue Mountain just west of Collingwood. The developer is proposing to build a large Village Community which includes a combination of commercial, retail, recreational, institutional and natural and open spaces. The zoning by-law has been approved. The 63.75 acre site [...]
When you drive from Collingwood west up Mountain Road to Blue, you pass some older homes, the Mair Mills subdivison and lots of open farmland. Did you know that most of that farm land is sold and planned for future development? As the area continues to grow in leaps and bounds, change is the only [...]
For many reasons, I like to eat locally grown foods when possible and in particular, organic fruits and vegetables. The taste of grass fed and pastured meat is also incomparably good versus the stuff we buy in the grocery store. Just try a grass-fed, free-range, roasted chicken from Blue Ridge Meats in Collingwood or from [...]
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