The property is a notorious brownfield site. A chemical used to clean machine parts \emdash trichloroethylene \emdash contaminated the ground below the building and slowly moved north and west through the neighbourhood.
City trying to sell former Electrohome plant property
Tax sale aims to collect hundreds of thousands in back taxes on site located on contaminated land
KITCHENER \emdash City officials are trying to sell the former Electrohome factory at the corner of Duke and Shanley streets in a bid to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid property taxes....1a