Here quoted is the front page of Woodstock's Sentinel Review for June 6, 2007. Many real estate agents have been hearing from their Toyota and industrial clients that there has been more going on at the Toyota site than has been released thru the media. Is the second plant to build the Matrix? Lexus? Or the beloved little Yaris? We welcome any additional plants and wish Toyota great success. Toyota comes with an excellent reputation as a good corporate citizen and we enjoy working with the employees as they make decisions to move to Oxford County.  Toyota speculation swirlingToyota: Site is double the size of Cambridge By Bruce Urquhart ECONOMICS REPORTERWednesday June 06, 2007WOODSTOCK- Four months after the rumours first surfaced, there is still rampant speculation that Toyota will bu... 06/06/2007

A STEP FORWARD FOR WOODSTOCK GENERAL HOSPITAL Request for Qualifications Issued  TORONTO - The Woodstock General Hospital project reached a significant milestone today with the release of a request for qualifications (RFQ) for project teams to build, finance and maintain hard services at the new Woodstock General Hospital.  This is the first step in selecting the project team responsible for over 300,000 square feet of new construction that will replace the aging, existing community hospital in Woodstock and bring new regional programs and services to Woodstock and Oxford County.  The new facility will provide increased clinical services, which include critical care, medical/surgical, maternal/child/women's health, complex continuing care, palliative care, inpatient rehabilitation, inpa... 06/05/2007

COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE MOVES AHEAD WOODSTOCK May 9, 2007: In November 2005, the McGuinty government announced plans to open 39 new Community Health Centres and satellite Community Health Centres with an investment of $74.6 million by March 2008.  Over the course of the summer and fall of 2006, several public forums and service provider information gathering sessions were held in Woodstock, Ingersoll and Tillsonburg.  On April 13, 2007 MPP Sandra Pupatello, on behalf of Minister of Health and Long-Term Care George Smitherman, announced that the steering committee had been chosen as the sponsoring organization for the center.  Since then, members of the steering have been working to bring the Community Health Centre (or CHC) closer to reality. The following are remarks of the Chair of th... 06/05/2007

New affordable housing project opens in County of Oxford From Woodstock Mayor, Michael HardingWOODSTOCK, ON, May 23: The Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario and the County of Oxford held a ribbon-cutting ceremony today to mark the official opening of Homestead Christian Care's Supported Independent Living Apartments, an affordable housing project that provides rental units for lower-income families and single persons under the Canada-Ontario Affordable Housing Program.Dave MacKenzie, Member of Parliament for Oxford, on behalf of the Honourable Monte Solberg, Minister of Human Resources and Social Development; County of Oxford Warden Paul Holbrough; and Woodstock Mayor Michael Harding attended today's ceremony. "This project will help many lower-income individuals with disabi... 06/05/2007

Snow Countess Gets A Face LiftFrom Bob McFarland, Director of Community Services, City of Woodstock Those travelling in the vicinity of Dundas and Springbank Streets in Woodstock will see a tent erected over the statue of Springbank Snow Countess. Why? Because she is being "stripped" and restored and the lady must have her privacy.   There are several layers of older paint on the statue and there are places where it has blistered and/or lifted.  The City and Holstein Canada have hired a well-known London-based art preservationist and restorer Keith Bantock to conduct the restoration work.  Mr. Bantock also has done preservation and restoration work on pieces in the City's fine art collection at the Woodstock Art Gallery, including some of the Carlyle paintings. They will be soda-blastin... 06/05/2007

Woodstock, OntarioFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Jump to: navigation, search Woodstock (2006 population: 35,480) is a city and the county seat of Oxford County in southwestern Ontario, Canada. Woodstock is located 80 miles southwest of Toronto, north off the 401, along the historic Thames River. It is known as the Dairy Capital of Canada and promotes itself as "The Friendly City."The city was first settled in 1800, when it was determined by Sir John Graves Simcoe, governor of what was then known as Upper Canada, that the area would make a good townsite. Woodstock was incorporated as a town in 1851 and a city in 1901.Vansittart Avenue (named after Admiral Henry Vansittart, an early settler) in Woodstock's west end has one of the finest residential Victorian streetscapes in the pr... 05/17/2007

Toyota to expand Woodstock, Ontario plantFebruary 7, 2006 - Woodstock, Ontario - Toyota said today that annual production capacity will increase to 150,000 RAV4 sport utility vehicles at a plant under construction here. Total employment will reach about 2,000 and the total investment will grow to about C$1.1 billion/US$950 million.The facility, managed by Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC) in Cambridge, was announced last June and construction began in October. Production begins in 2008."This capacity increase gives us the flexibility to adjust to future market demand," said Seiichi Sudo, president of Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America (TMMNA). "We are confident in TMMC's ability to handle this growth."Ray Tanguay, president of TMMC, said the expansion is further evidence of... 05/17/2007

1. No development charges onindustrial construction.2. Reduced building permit feeson construction > 50,000 sq. ft.3. Industrial land prices rangingfrom $55,000 - $100,000 per acre.4. Stable workforce.5. Sites as large as 100 acresavailable.6. Site plan approvals in as littleas 2 weeks.7. One of the lowest tipping feesin the Province of Ontario.8. No stormwater annualmanagement fees on industrial lands.9. Legal and survey costs includedin the price of municipally ownedland.10. Hwy. 401 and 403interconnect at Woodstock.11. Virtually no tax rate increasein Woodstock over the past4 years.12. New $90,000,000 hospitalplanned for near future.13. Home to Toyota's newestNorth American assembly plantSupplied by City of Woodstock Economic Development Office 05/15/2007

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Toyota Tsusho Canada to Invest $6.4 Million in WoodstockFebruary 20, 2007-The City of Woodstock, Toyota Tsusho Canada, Inc. (TTCI is a subsidiary of Toyota Tsusho America, Inc. (TAI), and Green Metals Canada, Inc. (GMI) are pleased to announce that TTCI and GMI will invest $6.4 million in a new facility in Woodstock.  TTCI and GMI will build a metal recycling facility on a 7.2 hectare (17.9 acres) on Beards Lane.  TTCI is also investigating the construction of additional Toyota related facilities on the same site.  Mayor Michael Harding welcomed the official announcement of TTCI's investment in the community by saying, "We are extremely pleased that TTCI and GMI have chosen Woodstock for its important investment.  This is great news.  We are very pleased that this new facility will be b... 05/12/2007

Woodstock Welcomes ToyotaWOODSTOCK, June 30, 2005 - Woodstock and Oxford County officials are pleased to officially welcome Toyota to their community.  This Toyota announcement represents the first Greenfield investment for an assembly plant in Ontario in nearly 20 years and is expected to create 1,300 new direct jobs."We have been waiting for two decades to welcome Toyota to our community and have worked tirelessly for the past six months to ensure that this investment was made in Woodstock" said Mayor Michael Harding.  "This announcement is a watershed moment for the City of Woodstock and represents perhaps the single largest industrial investment in North America in 2005. We are honoured that Toyota has shown its confidence in our community and selected Woodstock as the site for its ... 05/12/2007