An enormous fuel complex that would act as an off-the-highway pitstop and supply the region with doughnuts – as the state’s first Hot Light factory outside of Adelaide – is taking shape.
Amid the challenges of 2020, the Limestone Coast’s first Krispy Kreme doughnut factory will hit its December deadline for opening, according to Dycer Constructions’ company director, Shane Dycer.
Based off of Jubilee Highway, the new OTR facility will feature all-hours access, fuel facilities, supermarket supplies, takeaway food and a truckers’ lounge.
Speaking to The SE Voice at the site of the build, Mr Dycer said the multipurposeservice station was now at the full lock-up and alarm stage, with second fix services in and the building beginning to take shape.
“OTR and Krispy Kreme are due to open to the public in mid-December,” he said.
“We have got a fairly tight timeframe for the next couple of months … the weather has been a little bit on and off over the past couple of months and that has hindered progress. But now, we have had a pretty good run and things are tracking fairly well.”
Mr Dycer explained his construction team aimed to be off-site by mid-November.
“All the glazing is complete, the steel work is complete and the facades are now being installed,” he told The SE Voice.
“Mechanical services have started working, as well”.
“Our guys are currently working on the fuel canopies and getting all the alucobond and finishing touches on, ready for signage.”
The news comes as South Australia further relaxes its “hard border” with Victoria by expanding the cross-border travel arrangement, with border community members now allowed to travel within 70km of the SA and Victorian border without needing a reason to do so.
While welcome news for the community at large, Mr Dycer said the arrangement had neither affected or improved operations at the OTR Mount Gambier East development.
“It has not really affected us,” he told The SE Voice”.
“We use local suppliers. Every single thing we do, as Dycer Constructions, uses locals”.
“Some of the trades in this that are brought in through OTR, which do their fuel side and a few of their contractual obligations, are from Adelaide”.
“So we really have not got a lot of supply and trades out of Melbourne. It’s just basically all within the state, and, most importantly, mostly from Mount Gambier.”
