Belleville, and the entire Quinte region, is growing, and fast. And as he looks back, Belleville Mayor Neil Ellis believes the major highlight was council’s approving the $55 million Avonlough Pumping Station/Bridge Street West project earlier this month.
” … the biggest project in the history of infrastructure which will be the Loyalist Secondary Plan which will accommodate 9,000 dwellings over the next 20 years. The city is booming not only with industrial but with people moving here so we have to plan forward.”
Other infrastructure or business highlights include the completion of the huge Amazon warehouse, the building of the Mikhaiel Logistics warehouse, and expansions at Kellogg and Vision Transport.
Meanwhile, more needs to be done to make sure all residents of Belleville have access to a family doctor but according to Mayor Neil Ellis good progress was made in 2023 through the city’s Family Physician Recruitment Program.
“We have recruited two Nurse Practitioners over the last year which will probably take about 800 patients each. We have one doctor starting.”
Ellis notes other good news accomplishments including the beginning of construction of a new 160-bed long-term care home on Sidney Street, just south of Bell Boulevard and the start of a four-storey 80-bed expansion at the existing Westgate Lodge in the west end.
