Thursday’s announcement that Everlast Group is creating a $9-million international student residence not surprisingly led to a question many people are interested in: When will the Boardwalk on the Thames condominium project be complete?
“I think we should leave the past in the past and look ahead and look at the future,” said Everlast Group principal Victor Boutin when asked about the student residence being completed ahead of the condominium project that began in 2012 in downtown Chatham.
Noting there have been a number of issues over the years with the condo build, Boutin said efforts are being made to get things back on track to have it finished in July with occupancy in August.
“It’s like Rome, they didn’t build Rome in a day, eh,” he smiled. “It’s the same thing here.”
Boutin said there is a big demand for the units, adding the company has been receiving calls from across Ontario, including from many people in Toronto, who are interested in the project.
Mayor Darrin Canniff said it is being planned to have media tour the condo site in the next few weeks to give an update and create some excitement.
“That condo complex is going to do a lot wonderful things,” he said. “It’s going to bring 90 families to downtown Chatham.
“It’s a pretty exciting project and I look forward to it being completed as soon as it can,” the mayor added.
However, Boutin has no interest in selling the units, just leasing them.
Citing the fact he’s fallen in love with Chatham, Boutin said: “I think this is a great city and there’s a great future here.
“This is why we’re here and that’s why I’ve got my two sons . . . and we’re thinking about moving here and live here, too,” he added.
Boutin said he already has units set aside for himself and his sons in the Boardwalk condo.
When asked why he wants to move to the community, he said likes that the Thames River flows through Chatham and the municipality is close to lakes and the United States.
“It’s a perfect location and it’s a nice future here,” Boutin said. “I always look at the future, not the moment or the past, I look at the future.”
He predicts Chatham-Kent has a great future and will look a lot different in 10 years.
When asked what plans he may have for the community over the next 10 years, Boutin quipped, “We have to keep some secrets, it’s never nice to say everything.”
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