THE city announced recently it plans to sell a small piece of Blakeburn St. to Bandstra Transportation Systems Ltd. for $26,000.
The company has property on both sides of the section of Blakeburn to be sold so the purchase will better connect its holdings, said Bandstra manager Sid Bandstra.
Blakeburn runs north of its intersection with Keith Ave. on the southside and the second in question is at the north end of Blakeburn, adjacent to CN’s rail tracks.
It will probably be used for storage or parking.
“I think at some previous day and age [the city] had left that open in case they wanted to put a road in there,” said Bandstra.
“But it would need an underpass to go under the tracks or an overpass,” said Bandstra in adding the section has little other use now. It’s a strip of land 15 feet wide and 200 feet long.