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Downtown Windsor will soon be a boogie wonderland with a new 21 and over club called Disco Inferno. “It’s something that hasn’t really been done in Windsor to the level we’re doing it,” said Andrew Corbett, managing partner of WKND Hospitality Group. “With our other properties it kind of compliments everything else we’re doing having…

The construction of more than 100 townhomes on vacant east Windsor property once expected to house a school received the green light from a committee of city council this week. Without a word from would-be neighbours and with little discussion from members of the development and heritage standing committee, an Ontario numbered company was granted…

The province has set an ambitious target of building 1.5 million homes in the next decade and that includes 13,000 homes in Windsor alone. A Windsor city councillor believes one way to help achieve that target is by giving homeowners incentives to build additional dwelling units (ADUs). “That is a very ambitious target. So we…

Condominiums are the preferred choice of real estate investors in the Windsor area with 62.5 per cent of those residences being owned for revenue-generating purposes by individuals not living in them. The Statistics Canada study released Friday also found investors owned 12.1 per cent of all housing in the Windsor census metropolitan area. That area…

City council will decide next week on whether to approve almost $700,000 in incentives to spur $12 million worth of transformative redevelopments in the downtown and F––ord City. “This is actually the power of a strong real estate market, coupled with the CIP incentives, that really makes this time exciting,” said Mayor Drew Dilkens. He…

Major projects to convert two historic downtown buildings into badly needed residential units — more than 100 apartments including loft-style residences with soaring ceilings — cleared major hurdles this week at a city committee meeting. The 12-storey art deco-styled Canada Building at 374 Ouellette Ave. was recommended by council’s development and heritage standing committee for $412,780 in…

WINDSOR, ONT. — Long considered one of the most affordable places to live, Windsor now has the hottest real estate market in the country. A new report published by the Canadian Real Estate Association shows yet another massive increase in home prices — up a staggering 30 per cent over last September. “We’ve never been regarded…