The Dunedin City Council has granted resource consent to The Print Room, a Dunedin screen-printing and embroidery business, to establish a redesigned industrial building at 579 Kaikorai Valley Rd.
The front portion of the total 6411sqm site had previously been used as a car yard in association with the neighbouring property, a report said. This area would comprise two workshop spaces, a ground floor showroom and upper level office and staff areas.
The rest of the building would be used as a warehouse area for storage, screen-printing and processing.
The project was ‘‘a significant combination of a number of years’ work,’’ The Print Room co-owner Jon Thom said.
‘‘From sort of humble beginnings, literally screen-printing on a second-hand door and different pieces that we assembled from Mitre 10 … the goal will be in this new shop to have three automatic presses, significant scale in terms of production capability, an awesome team around us and to be doing work that we’re really proud of.’’
Building consents were still pending and the timeline for the build put it realistically a year away from completion.
The planned factory would be ‘‘considerably bigger’’ than their current premises in Grosvenor St, hopefully double its current scale and throughput, Mr Thom said.
The intention was to have a portion of their power offset by solar and for reticulated water to be used throughout the building, which were both important design considerations.
The Print Room had seen consistent growth year on year in the more than one decade since its inception and they were excited to get the Kaikorai Valley site up and running, Mr Thom said.
‘‘It’s kind of a really positive combination of all of our work to date and … ability to show off what we can do.’’
