Northwestern Ontario pulp mill town plans for population surge, expanded housing needs over the next decade
The construction of an open-pit gold mine outside the City of Dryden could turn this northwestern Ontario community into a boom town practically overnight.
According to Dryden’s draft Official Plan, mining activity could boost the community’s current population of 7,400 to more than 10,300 by 2041. With Dryden so close, mining companies like Treasury prefer not to go with a workers' accommodation camp at the mine site, but bed down its future workforce in town, as company president Jeremy Wyeth explained to Dryden city council last May.
With 475 vacant lots available in town, Nesbitt hopes the prospect of a mine and deep storage facility will lure some large homebuilders to town to expand its tight housing supply of single family dwellings. Furthermore, the City of Dryden is just climbing itself out of a major debt crisis and cash crunch from a decade ago, partly due to an MPAC reassessment of the local forest products mill that resulted in millions in reduced revenue. A previous term of council crafted a no-frills financial plan that saw a significant amount of that debt load paid off in 2021.Like many service towns in the North, Dryden caters to an outlying population estimated at 3,700 within a 30- to 40-kilometre radius.
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