The $5 million warehouse development by Port Otago on the
former Glendermid Leathers tannery site at Sawyers Bay is on
target.
Port Otago chief executive Geoff Plunket said the
construction of a storage and distribution warehouse, as a
storage and distribution hub close to the port was going to
plan.
The site had been contaminated from a century of use as a
tannery, but the port knew of that before buying the land, he
said.
In 2009, an Otago Regional Council report said the tannery at
Sawyers Bay was contaminated with elevated metal levels
detected in soil samples.
There were two distinct stages of the planned development, he
said.
Fulton Hogan would finish preparing the site in late January
and Calder Stewart would complete building the warehouse, at
the rear of the site, in mid June next year, he said.
The redevelopment also included a landscaping plan, he said.
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