By Pepper Parr
October 9th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
This happened:
A December 2017 fire destroyed much of the Tender Foods plant and Paletta International offices on Paletta Court.
Five years later what was Paletta went through re-organization and resulted in the Alinea Land Corporation that decided to tear down everything on the 18.5 acre site.
The structure will be torn down – everything levelled to the ground.
and this
Every square foot will be demolished.
and this
Demolition has already started.
The 18.5 acre site is going to be redeveloped as light industrial with nothing higher than four storeys – most of which are expected to come in at two storey. The expectation is for 300,000 square feet of space in three buildings.
There will be no residential housing on the site.
Alinea and Paletta International have site plan approval (there are some conditions) from the city. They want to have building permits in hand so they can construct when they have tenants.
The property will be developed in phases. There may be a situation when some of the fire damaged properties will be under demolition while other sites are under construction. Alinea will have a new corporate headquarters on the site.
What gets built when will depend on market conditions. “We don’t want to put up a building and have it standing empty” said David Pitblado who is responsible for the development of many of the Alinea properties.
Access to the site will be from Paletta Court and Zelko Drive.
