New Blue Water Bridge facilities open
2011-06-24
From www.chok.com
The new Blue Water Bridge Corporate Centre, built at a cost of 68 million dollars is now fully operational!
The Canada Border Services Agency, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, administrative offices for 14 commercial brokerage firms, and Bluewater Bridge Canada employees are now working out of the 68 million dollar facility on Pt Edward’s Venetian Boulevard.
Today is an historic day in local transporation history. It was on this day, June 24th, 1937, that construction began on the original Bluewater Bridge linking Sarnia and Port Huron. The 61 hundred foot, cantilever trussed bridge cost 3.25 million dollars and was opened to traffic on October 10th of 1938. The 87 thousand ton Bridge sits 152 feet above the St Clair River, and was joined by a sister span that opened on July 22nd in 1997.
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