The Twenty-first Century.

2002-2003: A developer proposes to build a multi-family housing development on the former Sandy Beach or "Blenkinship's Beach" in the centre of Hudson. This causes some consternation amongst some of the older residents of the town as well as amongst some of the new arrivals in town. The beach property is the last sizable piece of potentially public land in town giving residents access to the Ottawa shoreline. The beach property, some 45 arpents, had been offered to the town by the original owners, the Blenkinship family, for a very small fraction of its value in 2002 in the early 1970s. However, the town council of the day rejected the offer, claiming it was too costly a venture.

December 2004: The proposed nature-trail for the Sandy Beach development project is revealed in the Hudson Gazette for December 2nd, 2004.