A huge parcel of near-vacant industrial land has gone on the market in Hamilton North next to the suburb's former gasworks.
Property agents are marketing the former Shell fuel terminal as one of the last remaining undeveloped industrial land holdings close to the Newcastle CBD.
The 8.4-hectare site is between Chatham Road, the rail line and the Styx Creek stormwater channel.
The Newcastle Herald reported on Tuesday that the three-hectare former Wickham woolstores site in Annie Street also was on the market as light industrial redevelopment land.
The Hamilton North site is diagonally opposite the proposed Hunter Park redevelopment at Broadmeadow.
The Shell terminal closed in 2014 and is listed on the NSW Environment Protection Authority's register of contaminated sites.
The EPA said on Tuesday that Viva Energy, which retails Shell fuel in Australia, had remediated the site in 2019 in accordance with an approved management plan.
The work included excavating and remediating soil contaminated with fuel and chemically treating soil and groundwater in areas that could not be excavated.
An EPA spokesperson said groundwater monitoring by Viva had showed hydrocarbon concentrations were stable or decreasing.
"On September 19, 2022, the EPA lifted the declaration of significantly contaminated land for the site," the spokesperson said.
"The EPA's register will be updated shortly to reflect this change."
The polluted Newcastle Gasworks site next door was cleaned and capped several years ago.
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