Progress is being made on the former Navistar property in Chatham.
Mayor Darrin Canniff posted a video on his Facebook page this week with one of the investors in the property, Don Tetrault as construction is underway on the first building on site.
“We’ve been working on the concrete pad here since the summer, they ordered the building last June, it came in on time, and the building crew is on schedule,” Tetrault says. “60,000 square foot of warehouse, it could be production, it could be a factory, small business, could be divided into three or four (spaces.)”
Tetrault is one of three investors breathing new life into the 80 acre old truck factory site, along with Rob Myers and Mike Vagi, and says the plan is to have a mix of commercial and industrial properties on the property.
The owners are in negotiations with a couple of potential buyers, and Tetrault says they hope to have the building finished by mid-November.
“We’re getting the site prepared so if something comes to town and needs a building up in a hurry, needs a property in a hurry, we’re fast-tracking everything very quickly.”
Tetrault says the ownership group is having meetings with the municipality monthly to keep local officials up to date and ensure all drainage, sanitary hook-ups, and hydro are ready to go.
Elsewhere on the property, crews continue the work of demolishing cement pads and preparing for further construction.
