Site Imagery
The property in context.
Aerial footage of the parcel showing the surrounding road network, the new secondary school site directly opposite, and the Highway 401 interchange to the south-east.
A rare, fully signalized corner site at Marleau Avenue & Nick Kaneb Drive, directly across from Cornwall's new $97M secondary school, three minutes from Highway 401, and bordering the rapidly expanding Cornwall Business Park.
In June 2025 an institutional buyer, funded by the Province of Ontario, purchased the land directly across the street. That transaction is a matter of public record, and it sets the benchmark for this corner.
Source: City of Cornwall Council Report 2025-57 (24 March 2025) confirms the school site as two parcels totalling 9.8 hectares (24.2 acres) at the northeast corner of Marleau Avenue and Nick Kaneb Drive. The Upper Canada District School Board's acquisition was approved at $11,900,000 in June 2025, funded by the Ontario Ministry of Education.
Wider corridor evidence is equally direct. Broccolini's 984,000 sq ft Cornwall distribution centre, five minutes from this site, sold to Michelin for $246.35 million. Great Wolf Lodge is developing a US$350 million, 350-room indoor waterpark resort on 40 acres along the northern Nick Kaneb extension, projected to draw over 600,000 visitors annually. Ontario Power Generation is midway through a $600 million rehabilitation of the R.H. Saunders generating station. And in a single 2022 council meeting the City sold 158 acres of business park land to four buyers, including Broccolini.
There is currently no competing serviced commercial land of comparable scale listed for sale in the City of Cornwall.
Positioned at the northwest corner of two major arterial roads, this 10.456-acre parcel offers over 1,100 feet of combined frontage at a fully signalized intersection in one of Eastern Ontario's fastest-growing commercial corridors.
Immediately west of Cornwall Business Park, home to major distribution centres for Michelin, Walmart Supply Chain Management, Loblaws, and Shoppers Drug Mart, the site benefits from the Nick Kaneb Drive extension to Highway 401, dramatically improving regional accessibility for logistics, retail, and mixed-use development.
With municipal services at the property line and the parcel zoned CC-SC (Community Commercial / Shopping Centre), the land is shovel-ready for retail, mixed-use, or institutional uses. Directly across Nick Kaneb Drive, a $97.1M public secondary school is being built for 1,500 students, opening September 2029 and delivering captive daily traffic to this corner from day one.
Every fundamental developers look for: location, access, services, and demand drivers, converging on a single corner.
Controlled intersection at the meeting of two major arterials, ensuring safe, high-visibility ingress and egress.
Community Commercial / Shopping Centre zoning supports retail, plaza, big-box, professional services, and mixed-use development.
Exceptional street exposure on Nick Kaneb Drive and Marleau Avenue, with premium signage and access opportunities.
The completed Nick Kaneb Drive extension delivers seamless access to Highway 401, ideal for distribution and retail.
Full municipal services available at the property line: water, sewer, hydro, and natural gas ready for connection.
Cornwall Business Park has seen 200+ acres in major transactions, with Broccolini and Great Wolf Lodge among recent investors.
A full aerial tour of the parcel, its frontage on both arterial roads, and its position within Cornwall's Highway 401 commercial corridor.
Cornwall is no longer a quiet border city. It is one of Eastern Ontario's fastest-growing distribution, logistics and residential markets, and the growth is arriving on this corridor.
Cornwall added roughly 995 residents per year between 2020 and 2025, a 10% increase in five years, while the surrounding United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry bring the total catchment to more than 128,000 people. The site sits between an established residential neighbourhood to the west and the employment lands to the north, south and east, capturing both daily commuter traffic and shift traffic from the distribution centres. The corridor already carries an established daily traffic count of 16,000 vehicles, with significant increases anticipated as the surrounding corridor continues to develop.
From September 2029, 1,700 secondary students and staff will arrive and depart directly across the intersection every weekday, a demand driver that retail, quick-service food and convenience operators actively site against.
Beyond the school, the pipeline includes the Great Wolf Lodge resort, a 300+ bed long-term care facility expansion, a new downtown arts centre, and more than a thousand residential units at various approval stages. The Cornwall Business Park continues to service and release employment land, and the completed Nick Kaneb Drive extension has opened direct Highway 401 access past this property.
Cornwall also sits within a two-hour drive of Ottawa, Montreal and the New York State border crossing, the logic that brought Walmart, Loblaws, Shoppers Drug Mart and Michelin to the city in the first place.
Cornwall, Ontario is one of Eastern Canada's fastest-growing distribution and logistics hubs, anchored by national tenants and supported by aggressive municipal investment in infrastructure and housing.
Aerial footage of the parcel showing the surrounding road network, the new secondary school site directly opposite, and the Highway 401 interchange to the south-east.
CC-SC zoning is among the most permissive commercial designations in the City of Cornwall, and 10.46 acres at a signalized corner gives a developer room to phase, pad out, or build to a single large format.
Multi-tenant format anchored by grocery, pharmacy or large-format retail, with signalized ingress from two arterials and 1,100+ ft of exposure.
Corner pad sites at a controlled intersection with school and distribution-centre traffic, the profile drive-thru operators target.
Signalized corner exposure on two arterials suits a dealership, service centre or fuel/convenience operator drawing on commuter and Business Park traffic.
Clinic, dental, veterinary and professional office uses serving a growing residential catchment and an ageing regional population.
Potential for residential density above commercial in a city with 1,000+ units already in the approvals pipeline.
Bordering the Cornwall Business Park and its national distribution tenants, the site suits ancillary logistics, fleet, or light industrial uses serving that corridor.
| Asking Price | $3,659,600 CAD, $350,000 per acre |
|---|---|
| Address | NW Corner, Marleau Avenue & Nick Kaneb Drive, Cornwall, Ontario |
| Total Area | 10.456 acres (10.46 ac) |
| Zoning | CC-SC, Community Commercial / Shopping Centre (City of Cornwall) |
| Frontage | Over 1,100 ft combined on Marleau Ave & Nick Kaneb Dr |
| Intersection | Fully signalized corner of two major arterial roads |
| Servicing | Municipal water, sanitary, storm, hydro and gas at property line |
| Highway Access | Hwy 401 via the completed Nick Kaneb Dr extension |
| Adjacent Use | New $97.1M public secondary school under construction directly across Nick Kaneb Drive, 1,500 students, opening September 2029 |
| Surrounding Tenants | Michelin, Walmart SCM, Loblaws, Shoppers Drug Mart, Great Wolf Lodge (proposed) |
| Recent Comparable Activity | Upper Canada District School Board paid $11,900,000 for the 24.2-acre site directly opposite ($491,700 per acre, June 2025, City of Cornwall report 2025-57). 200+ acres transacted in the adjacent Cornwall Business Park (2022). |
| Permitted Uses (illustrative) | Retail, restaurant, professional office, medical, mixed-use, potential residential |
| Terms | Vendor take-back financing available · Conditional / due-diligence periods welcome |
| Status | Available. Offered direct from ownership · No listing commission · 2% cooperating commission to buyer's agents |
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