-Project to cost roughly $1.2 million-
OSOYOOS TIMES-September 17, 2008-
By Chad IngramrnOsoyoos Times
It's official “ an industrial park will be built at the Osoyoos Airport.
At their Sept. 15 meeting, Osoyoos town councillors gave fourth and final reading to bylaw amendments necessary to build the facility after a report from EBA Engineering Consulting Ltd. concluded there is enough room at the site for the project.
Concerns raised by several local residents at a July 21 public hearing that an industrial park at the airport would jeopardize the airport's safe operation prompted council to commission an independent study.
On March 11 of this year, the Town signed a cost-sharing deal with the province's Integrated Land Management Bureau worth $1.2 million for the construction of seven serviced industrial lots on 3.6 hectares of land between the airport's runway and Hwy. 3.
The Town will contribute $700,000 to the project, while the province will provide the remaining $500,000.
The lots are to be sold for manufacturing, finishing and packaging, agri-food processing, cartage and delivery, welding and fabricating, wholesale and cold storage and aviation industries.
Mayor John Slater said the project still has to be tendered and that it may be a number of months before construction begins.
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