L-R Skyline CEO Jason Castellan, SkyDev President Greg Jones, Owen Sound Mayor Ian Boddy

Owen Sound is enjoying a development boom not seen in the city for decades.

That’s according to city building department statistics presented to council at Monday’s meeting. City Manager Tim Simmonds says total construction value year-to-date is over $214-million, easily the highest figure the city has seen since the turn of the century.

“As far as we can tell going back to at least 2001, the closest year in construction value was about $72-million in 2010 … with the Julie McArthur Regional Recreation Centre,” Simmonds explains. “And (this year’s) numbers don’t … have a large public project within them. This is mostly residential construction and additional commercial construction.”

Simmonds says t

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