6 HE SAID/SHE SAID: The news and views of area executives on pertinent business issues of the day.
16 CORPORATISM: Jim Blasingame suggests using the power of adjectives to see where you’re going.
NOVEMBER 2025
W I N D S O R ’ S F O R E M O S T B U S I N E S S N E W S P U B L I C AT I O N
PHOTO BY JOE SYMCHYSHYN PHOTOGRAPHIC
INSIDE TRACK
Pastor Aaron Rock at the second campus of his fast-growing Harvest Bible Church. By Ron Stang
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AT A GLANCE A look at an annual market review and forecasts of Canada’s restaurant industry.
10 PRIME HOME A look at residential property sales in Essex County and Chatham-Kent.
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CROSSWORD Take a coffee break from work and challenge yourself with our crossword.
12 BUILDING PERMITS A compilation of construction activity in the Windsor and area market.
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ESSEX ECONOMICS A series of guest columns by business executives on various trends in the region.
13 WORLD OF WORK A career advice column by two workplace consultants and career coaches.
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PRIME PROPERTY A look at recent commercial property transfers in the city of Windsor .
14 START UPS Newly incorporated firms launched in Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent.
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arvest Bible Church, one the fastest growing evangelical Protestant dominations in southwestern Ontario, plans a second campus not too far from its main church in south Windsor. The 24-year-old church, started by Pastor Aaron Rock, will open a new site for several of its ministries at the former Prince Andrew Public School on Kelly Road in LaSalle. Its current location is on Spring Garden Road, also a former school. The church bought the new property in September for $5 million from the Greater Essex County District School Board. The church began looking at a second property a few years ago – “institutionally zoned properties are pretty rare,” Rock said – and had lost a bid on the nowclosed Western Secondary School. But the Prince Andrew building will be more than sufficient for the new camContinued on page 4
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