Infrastructure upgrades will allow housing and commercial development at an old paper mill in Bathurst, which has been closed since 2005.
Infrastructure spending to convert old Bathurst paper mill site into development-ready land
Savannah Awde · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 27, 2025 4:38 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago
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Standing in front of the old mill site in Bathurs on Monday were Acadie-Bathurst MP Serge Cormier, Finance Minister and Bathurst MLA René Legacy, Bathurst Mayor Kim Chamberlain, and Environment and Climate Change Minister Gilles LePage. (Victoria Walton/CBC)
A former mill site that’s sat vacant for 20 years on the Bathurst waterfront will see $5.8 million to attract development.
That funding from the provincial and federal governments will cover the cost to connect the old Smurfit-Stone paper mill site with city water and sewer services.
Bathurst MLA René Legacy said this in turn should encourage developers to bid for the land, eventually giving it new life as housing or commercial space.
The mill, which had employed hundreds in the region, closed in 2005. Vacant ever since, it has fallen into disrepair.
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