MADE IN BLAZING NEW TRAILS
“I didn’t move here to grow switchgrass, I moved here because I loved the land. Then I started WIARTON KEPPEL (CYVV) INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT looking for a crop that was a good fit. Grey County offered great value FACTS & FIGURES within striking distance of the city. CO-ORDINATES: N44 44 39 W81 06 31 ELEVATION: 728’ ASL I couldn’t help but dream of the ski RUNWAYS: 05-23 - 5033’x150’ asphalt 11-29 - 3456’x100’ gravel trails I could buildWIARTON on this KEPPEL property.” INTERNATIONAL TOTAL LAND AIRPORT (CYVV) DEVELOPABLE: 820 acres / 332 hectares
The airport is located along the shore of Georgian ZONING: The Wiarton Keppel Bay and provides customs/port of entry service. International Airport (CYVV) The airport is owned and operated by the is federally regulated and Township of Georgian Bluffs. Staff are eager to owned by the Township of support development opportunities, with ample Georgian Bluffs. Commercial / developable land. light-industrial aviation-related businesses are permitted on The airport is located between Wiarton and this site. Owen Sound, within a two hour drive of the Kitchener-Waterloo Corridor and a three hour Some examples of permitted aviation related land drive of the Greater Toronto Area, boasting a uses include: combined population of over 6.4 million. • Air Cargo Courier Facilities POPULATIONS: 6,451,934 K-W / GTA • Aerospace Manufacturing 161,977 Grey Bruce Counties • URSAircraft EGGIMANN Maintenance, Repair and Overhauls (MRO) 21,341 Owen Sound Eggimann Facilities 1,989 Wiarton • SwitchgrassCommercial/ Producer, Corporate Eggimann Aviation Operations Farms Farms Holland Centre, Ontario ECONOMIC ASSETS High speed Internet, Top 7 Intelligent CommunityBorn and educated in Switzerland, Urs Eggimann and his wife Else Ranking, Georgian College, Regional Hospital, and a Grey and Bruce regional labour forcecame over to Canada in 1975, planning to stay for 2 years. 41 years later, 90000 people. the couple is farming 120 acres of Grey County land, focusing their energy on switchgrass. Urs is one of the largest Ontario producers and has become an advocate and researcher for the biomass industry and its potential growth in Grey County.
“The environmental benefits of switchgrass were the immediate draw but the more I learned, I realized there were real opportunities. Grey County is a darn good place to grow switchgrass. We have a lot of marginal land where switchgrass performs and other crops might not. Wouldn’t it be great to create a new opportunity for the farming community up here? That’s my mission.”
Not only does Urs farm his land, during the winter he regularly skis the 11 kilometres of winding trails he’s carved through the bush and surrounding land. MADE IN CYVV DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Available Land ¯ BLAZING NEW TRAILS Take-Off/Approach Surface Airport Boundary