The Waterloo Region reports that it has deals to buy about a third of the 770 acres it is trying to buy southwest of New Hamburg for industrial development.
No company has been identified and it may only be a desire to have land available when shoppers show up, as region chair Karen Redman said, adding they have been turned away for a lack of suitable space.
When a company hired by the region began seeking the land, farmers and many others in the Waterloo Region and nearby municipalities objected and started a campaign to stop the assembly.
