NORTH KINGSTOWN – Hoping to attract a large manufacturer, the Quonset Development Corp. is pitching a piece of land it acquired in December as the right place for a sprawling warehouse or manufacturing plant.
The QDC purchased 41.58 acres of land in the West Davisville section of the business park on Dec. 29 for $1.6 million. Coupled with surrounding land the corporation already owned, the QDC can now offer a parcel of 63.82 acres.
The wooded property becomes the largest available plot of land in the business park.
QDC Managing Director Steven King said last week the park had not yet lined up a tenant, but was looking to do so.
“It allows us to leverage some of our lands that we couldn’t otherwise develop,” King said.
At one point in the late 1990s, the land had been considered for an RV store but that idea fizzled out. King added that the QDC prefers to rent the land as a whole rather than subdivide it or sell it.
QDC started the formal process to purchase the land last year. The seller was WDIC, which King described as a limited-liability investment holding company. Public records list WDIC as a Warwick company with Robert E. DeBlois Jr. as its primary person of contact.
The latest purchase brings the entire Quonset Business Park to 3,204 acres.
