New lease of life for the six decade old location.
Local automotive production may have ceased after Holden pulled the plug on its Elizabeth plant earlier this year, but it’s hardly the end of the site itself. It’s been sold to a developer, who will turn it into an industrial park, but Holden themselves will still retain a little bit of it, and they intend to turn that parcel into a museum of what once was.
The Redline Museum will be home to a plethora of exhibits that show off the glory days of the Australian auto industry, and will have a themed cafe on site, too. Of course, construction of the museum won’t start for some time yet, as Holden still has to disassemble the plant and finish a contamination assessment on the site, the latter program one that’s been ongoing since 2012.
Once that’s settled, the Redline Museum will be joined by a Holden parts warehouse, and will form a part of the Lionsgate Business Park, a name that’s derived from the Holden badge itself.
The Lionsgate park will, at full chat, likely provide some job alternatives for former Holden employees, though that’ll depend on the tenants rather than the developer or Holden themselves.
In any case, work on Lionsgate and the Redline Museum will only begin in earnest sometime in Q3 2019, and while manufacturing may be at an end, at least we’ll have a place to drink in the pride we once enjoyed as an automotive manufacturing powerhouse.
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