Efforts continue to market the former UBE plant in Sarnia.
The 350,000 sq ft facility sitting on 72 acres with frontage on Hwy. 402 has essentially sat idle for several years now.
It is listed for sale again with an asking price of $15.5-million and has a separate listing for lease.
In January 2015, Mayor Mike Bradley optimistically announced that the plant had been sold to local, unnamed investors, and that plans for the site would be announced in due course.
Nothing has materialized since then but not for a lack of effort according to the mayor.
He says the Sarnia-Lambton Economic Partnership has been working with various companies interested in the property.
"It's the largest building we have in Lambton County," says Bradley.
"One of the issues we run into continually on the economic development front is the lack of available buildings, even small buildings. So, it has tremendous potential for the community and it's my hope that the new owner will continue to do what the previous ownership did and that's to market it to one company or a variety of companies."
It was announced, with considerable fanfare in 2002, that UBE Automotive had purchased the site for a wheel manufacturing plant.
The Japanese-based company closed the plant in 2009.
It was then bought by a group of Canadian investors and reopened as Sarnia Wheels but that venture also failed and since then it has attracted only a short-term tenant or two.
