Grimsby's Seafood Village a concrete reality
GRIMSBY'S Seafood Village has moved a step closer to completion, after the concrete was poured for the first floor of the two-storey building.
Developer QA Construction says work on the £2.4 million flagship development is progressing well and is hoping to finish the project ahead of schedule.
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SOLID FOUNDATION: Concrete is laid on the first floor of the £2.5 million Grimsby Seafood Village development. Phillip Carroll, of Technic Floors, left, and Steve Revell, site manager for QA Construction, survey the work. Picture: Jon Corken
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JANUARY TARGET: How the completed development will look.
Pete Dalton, joint managing director of the seafood village, expressed confidence that the facility would be "oversubscribed" by the time construction work was completed.
Already, 15 of the 20 units have been let by seafood companies, with several others expressing a keen interest.
As reported, the state-of-the-art development, which is located on a four-acre site off Wickham Road, near Grimsby Docks, will cater for 20 fish processing firms and provide shared waste collection, cold stores and distribution facilities.
Mr Dalton said: "They are going to be 21st-century units that will comply with or exceed all the European health standards.
"Everything the merchants need will be on one site – the transport people, the ice people. They won't need to go anywhere else.
"The units are good value for money and we have had quite a lot of interest from various people.
"We have signed up Carisma, the Norwegian firm, and we have also got a Scottish salmon producer and Canadian lobster company interested.
"Everybody is waiting to see what they will be getting for their money, but once we can showcase what we have to offer, I'm very confident we will be oversubscribed."
Yesterday's concrete pour, which saw about 100 cubic metres of concrete pumped up to the first floor, was the latest stage in the construction process.
Steve Revell, site manager for QA Construction, told the Grimsby Telegraph the company was hoping to finish the project ahead of its January target.
He said: "We are well on with the internal drainage to the ground floor, the roofing works and cladding works, and the steelworks are about 95 per cent completed.
"Generally it's going reasonably well. We are quite pleased with how it's going.
"The actual contract programme shows us to be complete by mid January, but we are aiming to be done before that, subject to the weather and other hiccups."
Keep checking your Grimsby Telegraph for all the latest news on the development.
5 Comments
by MARCUS1066
Monday, August 29 2011, 1:00PM
“Ok only time will be my judge. i can assure you the fish industry is dead. diversify the job spectrum from what fish to fish. its because of people like you who continue to believe that worldwide fishery s arent in decline. fish populations havent plummeted trawling doesnt reduce the once vibrant seabed into dead zones. are we talking about the same youngs that closed the big factory in gy?. i think you guys need to wake up and smell the sea water. try reading "the unnatural history of the sea by professor callum roberts" idiots.”
by Allun
Friday, August 19 2011, 10:44PM
“Why don't these fish merchants and processing factories take a leaf out of paper manufacturers. For every tree that is felled, four saplings are planted........sustainability and future.
Fish spawning in the sea lose most of the eggs and larval fish to predators. Put something back by running massive conservation fishing free areas and fish farm on a massive scale to release viable adolescent fish to grow in the sea.......sustain the fish stock!
Oh I forgot, the EU made us share our fish with every other country allowing them to invade our fishing grounds with industrial fishing methods. Having allowed a free for all, the depleted fishing grounds now dictate fishing rotas.”
by MeggieDave
Wednesday, August 17 2011, 8:02PM
“There is a future in fish. A future where people work ethically and sustainably in modern facilities that are approved by the supermarkets, adhering to best practice developed in this town for the benefit of the nation. Try telling Young's there's no future, Coldwater, Five Star, Flatfish, Quayside.... you'd be laughed back to 1066. The likes of Pete Dalton and Gary Cadey want accolades for what they're doing for the smaller operators still forging a rewarding living out of the industry, not angst.”
by MrClee1
Wednesday, August 17 2011, 7:18PM
“no future in fish? well i guess their is no future in farming, no future in engineering no future in anything apart from sales and banking. Surely people on here can see how this can be good for grimsby, how it will diversify the job spectrum around this area. Its a small step on a long road granted but at least its a step in the right direction.”
by MARCUS1066
Wednesday, August 17 2011, 3:36PM
“WHY INVEST MONEY IN A DWINDLING INDUSTRY . EVERYONE KNOWS THERE NO FUTURE IN FISH. why didnt you build a green energy village . We dont need more empty factory units . WE NEED JOBS YOU IDIOTS.”