{"id":34537,"date":"2026-03-04T14:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/central-elgin-issues-rfp-for-transformational-3500-home-redevelopment\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:54:19","slug":"central-elgin-issues-rfp-for-transformational-3500-home-redevelopment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/central-elgin-issues-rfp-for-transformational-3500-home-redevelopment\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Elgin issues RFP for \u2018transformational\u2019 3,500-home redevelopment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;\">CENTRAL ELGIN, ONT. \u2013 The Municipality of Central Elgin has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking experienced development partners to deliver a \u201ccomplete community\u201d that includes a mix of homes, park space, a main street and a connected transportation network.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;\">It\u2019s all part of a major development initiative that intends to take 370 acres of unused land at the former site of the St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital and turn it into the largest planned community expansion in the area\u2019s history, with 3,500 new homes, 9,000 residents and local businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;\">\u201cThe redevelopment of the former St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital lands, which will be enabled through the Ontario government\u2019s surplus lands process, will help support the job growth expected when the Volkswagen battery plant opens in 2027,\u201d a release reads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;\">The RFP can be <\/span><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.centralelgin.org\/en\/municipal-office\/bids-and-tenders.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;\">viewed here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/projects\/2026\/03\/central-elgin-issues-rfp-for-transformational-3500-home-redevelopment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] CENTRAL ELGIN, ONT. \u2013 The Municipality of Central Elgin has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking experienced development &#8230; <a title=\"Central Elgin issues RFP for \u2018transformational\u2019 3,500-home redevelopment\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/central-elgin-issues-rfp-for-transformational-3500-home-redevelopment\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Central Elgin issues RFP for \u2018transformational\u2019 3,500-home redevelopment\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-34537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}