To market, to market
On Friday 19 June, members of The Ridgeway Club were provided with the opportunity to take a guided tour of the soon to be opened Melbourne Market in Epping.
Opening to the public in August 2015, Melbourne’s wholesale fruit, vegetable and flower market is being relocated to a new site in Cooper Street, Epping, in Melbourne’s north, at which time the market on the existing Footscray Road site will close. This project is one of the largest infrastructure projects being undertaken in Victoria and has been managed by six consecutive Victorian state governments.
Vice President of The Ridgeway Club Grant Nichol arranged a tour of the facility for members and their guests last week. Grant is on the Wholesalers’ Advisory Committee and provided an interesting insight in to the purchase and building on the new site. The land was originally owned by an Ivanhoe family who joined the group on tour.
With over 3,000 businesses employing 7,500 employees there is a great deal of work going on behind the scenes to support the move to the new location. In preparing the land for building, two years were spent crushing the rocks which covered the once grazing land.
The new Market has the capacity for four times as much on-site warehousing as the current West Melbourne site. Once complete, this warehousing will be the largest warehousing precinct at any central market in Australia.
A key consideration in designing the new Market was how to make the facility more environmentally sound. Incorporating strategies to maximise the recycling of 10,000 tonnes of refuse annually, the new Melbourne Market will be committed to minimising waste to landfill with a waste recycling target of 95 per cent.
The new Melbourne Market was designed through utilising extensive consultation, observation and international benchmarking to deliver a market that is considered world class.
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