Bradford West Gwillimbury, Ontario · On Highway 400 and 425
The GTA's northern gateway has room to build.
Bradford West Gwillimbury holds roughly 2,200 acres of industrial and employment land on Highway 400 — one of the largest serviceable reserves left this close to Toronto. Our Industrial Land Strategy maps where it is, what it's suited for, and how to build here.
Built for moving goods, and people.
Bradford West Gwillimbury sits directly on Highway 400, the spine between the Greater Toronto Area and northern Ontario. Add GO rail on the Barrie line, the new Highway 425 now under construction, and a market of millions within reach, and you have a location modern industrial occupiers are actively looking for.
Directly on Highway 400
Frontage and interchange access on the main north–south corridor, with a CN Rail freight line running through the municipality.
Bradford GO Station
Direct passenger rail to Toronto Union on the Barrie line, with GO Expansion planned to bring two-way, all-day service for workforce access.
Highway 425 underway
The new Highway 425 (formerly the Bradford Bypass) is under construction, linking Highway 400 to Highway 404 and opening up east–west goods movement.
Market reach
Over 4.2 million people within 50 km and 150 million North American consumers within a day's drive — Toronto, Montreal, Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago and beyond.
Four business parks. One of the largest reserves near the GTA.
The Strategy reviews about 2,200 acres (890 ha) across four business parks — large, developable sites of a kind that are increasingly rare this close to Toronto, where comparable land has all but run out.
Highway 400 Prestige Employment Lands
Directly on the Highway 400 corridor and built for large-format users — distribution, logistics and advanced manufacturing seeking scale, with significant existing and planned transportation infrastructure.
Artesian Industrial Business Park
An established employment area on the town's east side with an existing tax base, rail freight access and proximity to the local labour supply — well-suited to intensification and flex/last-mile uses.
Reagens Industrial Park
Larger, consolidated parcels with few landowners on the town's north-west side — easy to coordinate and a natural fit for campus-style or targeted-sector clustering such as advanced manufacturing.
North Employment Lands
Parcels north of the urban boundary offering a flexible, near-term pipeline for light-industrial and transitional employment uses, in close proximity to a growing residential base.
Focused on what fits — and builds on it.
Rather than chasing everything, the Strategy concentrates on sectors that draw on Highway 400 connectivity, GTA market access and the Holland Marsh agri-food cluster — the "Salad Bowl of Ontario."
Leading opportunities
Logistics and distribution
Regional and last-mile distribution, 3PL and e-commerce fulfilment — drawing on Highway 400, large developable lots, competitive development charges and 5M+ GTA consumers nearby.
Cold-chain and agri-food processing
Value-added food processing, cold storage and packaging fed directly by the Holland Marsh agricultural supply, with Highway 400 for distribution and competitive land costs.
Food manufacturing
The portfolio's strongest economic multiplier — food-grade industrial uses with specialised refrigeration and utilities, amplified by local supply-chain effects from the Marsh.
Controlled-environment agriculture
Greenhouses, vertical farming and agri-tech, anchored by the Holland Marsh cluster, access to water and utilities, and growing demand for local food production across the GTA.
Supporting opportunities
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Matched to the Province's priorities
BWG's target sectors sit within Invest Ontario's three priority areas — advanced manufacturing, life sciences, and technology — positioning the Town as a credible, lower-cost alternative to the congested 905 for occupiers seeking serviced, large-format land.
What you can expect when you build here.
The Strategy pairs the land with a practical path to market — clearer approvals, a single point of contact, and investment-ready data so you can move quickly.
A development concierge
The Town's Growth Services concierge approach supports faster, more predictable approvals — identified by stakeholders as one of the biggest factors in deciding where to invest.
One point of contact
A dedicated economic development contact for industrial and site-selection inquiries, working alongside planning, engineering, finance and utility partners.
Investment-ready sites
10 priority Highway 400 sites are being prepared with parcel-level data sheets for the Province's Invest Ontario portal — and made easy to find online.
Competitive economics
Competitive land costs and development charges relative to the broader GTA, with potential incentive tools under review to lower the cost of building in BWG.
Growth is coming. The question is how much BWG captures.
Bradford West Gwillimbury is one of Ontario's fastest-growing municipalities — set to take nearly a fifth of all population growth and roughly a quarter of employment growth across Simcoe County. Development is phased to match servicing and power coming online, so capacity keeps pace with demand.
Read the Industrial Land Strategy
The complete report sets out the land base, market position, target sectors, implementation roadmap, and investment-attraction plan — in one place.
Industrial Land Strategy
What's inside
Looking at a site in BWG?
Whether you're a developer, occupier, broker or site selector, we can help with site selection, available parcels, servicing and the approvals process. Reach our economic development team — or Michael Disano, Manager of Economic Development — to get started.
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