Land and building has many uses
The land and buildings housing a long-standing farm equipment and machinery engineering plant in the heart of the North Island’s premier dairying region is on the market for sale.
The premises at 5855 State Highway 2 in Netherton features a 620sq m industrial complex sitting on a 1.89ha block of land zoned rural 1A under the Hauraki District Council plan.
The property has been the headquarters of Quinn Engineering since the 1960s, with the company producing hay-bailing machinery, forklift extensions, and tractor extensions for crop and soil management. Its products are sold throughout New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific.
The buildings consist of a highstud warehouse with sliding door entrances and staff amenities on a mezzanine floor, several smaller separate workshops, and adjoining administrative offices.
Quinn Engineering is moving to new and bigger purpose-built premises at the Kerepehi Industrial Park.
The building and land are for sale at auction on March 12 through Bayleys Hamilton. Salesperson Josh Smith said the site would lend itself to multiple future uses.
“The expanse of industrial warehousing floorspace makes the main building within the complex eminently suitable for conversion into a tradie’s depot for the likes of a builder, plumber or drainage contracting firm,” he said.
“The interior could even be subdivided for a shared multi-occupancy facility.” “Likewise the ancillary smaller sheds and covered canopycovered space have the potential to be let as individual storage units or assigned to tenants within the bigger facility as secondary space.”
The industrial buildings and offices are on one corner of the greater Netherton landholding, with a small dwelling on the other corner on a month-to-month rental arrangement. The middle portion of the flat site is undeveloped field space.
“Subject to the appropriate regulatory consents, the middle portion of the 1.89ha site could easily be developed into a heavy vehicle yard with adjoining workshops for the likes of road-building and maintenance firms, or earthmoving and civil landscaping machinery,” Smith said.
There was also the possibility that the entire plant could be bought to accommodate a motor vehicle enthusiast’s private collection of cars, motorbikes or boats.
“There are a lot of motor-racing enthusiasts living in the region, with stock car tracks in Huntly, Tauranga’s Bay Park and Waikaraka Park in Auckland offering racing virtually every weekend in the season.”