A long-delayed 24-apartment affordable housing construction project at Maxwell Park Place in Sarnia is expected to be completed this fall, say Lambton County officials.

The project originally was expected to be built quickly in 2022 by using modular construction, but ended up three years behind schedule and with a cost that climbed to more than $11 million.

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Federal and provincial funding for the three-storey addition to an existing county-owned affordable housing building, between Maxwell Street and London Road, was announced in March 2021 and an initial building permit was issued late that year.

The county opted for modular construction, with factory-built units shipped to Sarnia to be placed on a foundation, hoping to speed building. But foundation work paused in 2

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