A heavy industrial site of over two hectares in Avondale's popular Patiki Rd is up for tender offering a number of redevelopment options for the next owner.
The 20,207 sq m landholding, which has various industrial buildings on it, is for sale with vacant possession through Sunil Bhana, James Hill and Mike Houlker, Bayleys Auckland. They are marketing the property, which has a 2014 Capital Valuation of $6.5 million, by tenders closing on June 4, unless it sells beforehand by private treaty.
Hill says the property has a valuable Business 6 zoning, which allows for "heavy, noxious or otherwise unpleasant" industrial activity. A similar Heavy Industry zoning will continue under the Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan which provides for industrial activities that may produce objectionable odour, dust and noise emissions.. Hill says a key attribute of the zone is that it contains sites big enough to accommodate large-scale, low intensity industrial activities.
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"Large parcels of land with this zoning are becoming increasingly difficult to secure in Auckland as a result of the city's residential expansion and the planning controls that have to be put in place near intensive housing areas. The sale of this property has opened up a rare opportunity for a big manufacturing owner occupier, or possibly a business that needing a large amount of yard space for heavy vehicles, to make the most of this site and the wide range of industrial activities that its zoning permits."