Livingston Construction are continuing to make good progress on Raglan’s replacement wharf building. Additional steel frames are now up and sections of the concrete floor are ready to be poured.
At the March meeting of the Raglan Community Board, Waikato District Council Water & Facilities GM Richard Bax advised the Board that Council staff were continuing to negotiate with Raglan Seafoods about leasing space in the building.
Construction on the $1.9m wharf building began in early January. The target completion is for July. A late March article in the Waikato Times confirmed that leases had still not been signed. The article speculated that the new multimillion-dollar wharf building may not be fully tenanted when completed in July. Since publication of the Times article WDC is yet to announce an agreed lease.
The replacement 700 square metre building would have nearly the same “overall footprint” as the old building destroyed by fire over two years ago. The new building will have 635.5 sqm of space available for lease. One lease had been verbally agreed to, but not signed, by Raglan Coastguard.
The WDC’s approved contract for the building’s construction is $1,943,200 while the total project cost, including design work and wharf repair work, is $2,893,570.