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Airport announces warehouse partnership

The Prince George Airport has found someone to call its new cargo warehouse facility home.
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Terry Rhode of Rosenau Transport announces that the company will be the major tenant for the new cargo facility at the Prince George Airport.

The Prince George Airport has found someone to call its new cargo warehouse facility home.

Rosenau Transport was announced Tuesday morning as the new anchor tenant for the 25,000 square-foot building currently under construction on the north end of the main runway off Boeing Road.

"The most recent meetings we had with cargo carriers, (we heard) without a cargo facility they're not going to contemplate Prince George," said Prince George Airport Authority president John Gibson.

Construction of the space was announced last month. The building is a $5.5 million project - led by IDL Projects - that features 11 truck dock doors, three ground-level doors and one ramp accessible door.

"Our objective was to find a partner who would operate our cargo facility as their own and provide road feeder service to and from the airport and its cargo aircraft program," Gibson said.

Rosenau will lease 15,000 square feet, leaving 10,000 square feet for other prospective partners as well as the Canadian Border Services Agency and other airport stakeholders.

"We always seek out areas where the right people in the right place at the right time can make amazing things happen," said Rosenau board member Terry Rhode. "We truly believe that with the Prince George Airport Authority, this new building and the upcoming opportunities for the Prince George area - and all of western Canada - to work through Prince George is a key part of success."

Being in the right place and the right time set off the chain of events for the agreement between Rosenau and the airport authority. Corporate account manager Kelly Cameron said it was about a year ago that he shared a flight with airport cargo director Al Ridgway.

"By the time the plane took off from Prince George, we were already well on our way to a friendship," said Cameron.

"By the time we landed in Vancouver we had sketched out the basic foundation for this agreement."

Weather permitting, the facility is expected to be completed and ready for operation by November when Rosenau Transport will move from its current space on River Road. About a dozen employees will work from the space to start, said Cameron.

Tuesday's announcement marked the fall of another domino for a chain reaction spurring development in the city, said Mayor Lyn Hall, also noting further development in the Global Logistics Park along Boundary Road is going to be important.

"Keeping in mind that Prince George is in fact, and there's no disputing it, the hub of the north," Hall said.

"You can't go anywhere - north, east, south or west - without coming through Prince George."