Area’s economy still enjoys solid underpinnings, with unemployment below and incomes above provincial and national benchmarks

KITCHENER-WATERLOO, ON, July 22 /CNW/ - With youthful demographics, strong educational institutions, and its diversified industrial mix, the area encompassing the Waterloo Region and Guelph should perform well as the broader North American economy remains slow, according to a new report from the BMO Capital Markets Economics Department.

Design/build construction and leasing on its own properties is the new shape for Cooper Construction business.

TORONTO - Structural steel is in place and construction is proceeding on schedule at Hanlon Business Park, the major development by Cooper Construction, immediately south of Guelph, Ontario.

Cooper Construction Ltd. has completion of Hanlon Business Park design-build project scheduled for September 2008.

Designed by Allen & Sherriff Architects Inc., the building encompasses about 120,500 square feet of space.