Calder Stewart pitches 200-hectare industrial hub and inland port for Otago

Calder Stewart pitches 200-hectare industrial hub and inland port for Otago
Calder Stewart has an existing steel fabrication facility and offices beside its proposed 200ha Milburn Quadrant inland port. (Image: Calder Stewart)
Oliver Lewis
A family-owned private developer has put forward a competing vision to develop a major inland port and industrial hub connected by rail to Port Otago.Calder Stewart, which was founded by Bruce Stewart and Lance Calder in 1965 in the small Otago town of Milton, is controlled by Stewart Family Holdings, which says it is the largest industrial landowner in New Zealand.The group owns most of a 200-hectare site in Milburn, south of Dunedin, where it already has offices and a 10,000sq m steel fabrication facility. Now the company is pitching the...

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