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Making progress with Undevelopments
Two significant developments currently under way on Port
Authority properties are actually "undevelopments
" A 37-year-old tank farm is in the final stages of disassembly for potential
redevelopment as a maritime fueling facility. Shown here is one of the
disengaged tanks on the move from that Port site to another one. Four of
the 13 tanks were immediately relocated to the nearby $1.5 million Port
construction site of Como Lube and Supplies, Inc., for its used oil storage
and transfer facility. Como's waterfront facility, which sells and receives
maritime lubricants, filters and related products, will become operational
this summer.Another undevelopment on Port Authority-owned property is demolition
of two idle grain elevators in preparation for a future bulk cargo facility.
The Garfield C & D elevators are on a 28-acre site that will be available
for lease in 1999. Inactive since the late 1980s, the elevators were acquired
by the Port Authority in 1989 from Caraill, Inc. The Port Authority Board
of Commissioners awarded a $1.05 million contract to Duluth contractor
Ilse Engineering, Inc., for the demolition project. (The elevators form
the backdrop for the picture on the back cover of this issue of Minnesota's
World Port.)On the moveone of 13 tanks is on its way to a new home. |
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