Ben Bleecker News Today

Wednesday Belleville city council will gather around its horseshoe and hammer out a capital budget for 2024. W...

The City of Belleville's Planning Committee has recommended to city council that a property on the former site...

Quinte Exhibition, one of the oldest country fairs in Ontario, isn’t moving just yet to the new Belleville city fairgrounds on Highway 37 at Black Diamond Road.

Belleville Mayor Neil Ellis says it’s time the city’s West Hill main corridor undergoes a major facelift to restore Bridge Street West from Coleman Street, past the old city fairgrounds and former Ben Bleecker site to Palmer Road.

A draft capital budget up for review Monday by Belleville Mayor Neil Ellis and city council calls for $39.8 million less spending for capital maintenance and acquisition for the year ahead.

A public meeting by Planning Advisory Committee Monday to gather input regarding a new mixed-use residential and long-term-care project proposed for 645 Sidney St.

Plans call for a 10-story apartment building and 25 townhouse units boasting 132 residential units, down from the original 137 units.

Substantial reconstruction lies in store for Sidney and Bridge streets in Belleville’s west end to prepare for commercial and residential development of the former Ben Bleecker fairgrounds property disposed of by the municipality.

The city will spend $20,000 on the peer review to vet the CBRE Limited Market and Financial Feasibility Study commissioned by the Belleville Agricultural Society (BAS) to help frame the path forward to build anew at its future home.

The city will spend $20,000 on the peer review to vet the CBRE Limited Market and Financial Feasibility Study commissioned by the Belleville Agricultural Society (BAS) to help frame the path forward to build anew at its future home.