Federal government unveils $400m quarantine facility at Melbourne’s Mickleham
THE federal government this week unveiled plans for a $400 million quarantine facility in Melbourne’s north.
The project for a site in Donnybrook Road was foreshadowed by The Age in May after the Gillard government paid the joint venture owners, developers AMP Capital and Folkestone, about $40 million for the 144 hectare parcel – marked as Stage 1 in the image, right.
The land had previously been earmarked for an industrial and business park.
To be developed by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, the Mickleham facility will hold imported animals – from cats and dogs to alpacas – as well as plants.
