Northlands Centre Work Approved

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31207, 3 November 1966, Page 18

Northlands Centre Work Approved

The Fletcher Trust and Investment Company, Ltd., has won approval from the Building Programmer to start work on stage two of the Northlands Shopping Centre on the Main North road, Papanui.

This means that the department store and supermarket now under construction for Hay’s, Ltd., and a block of about 30 other shops will be opened together in November, 1967.

The first stage of the

£1,000,000 project began two months ago. Work on the second stage will be done simultaneously.

A spokesman for the company said yesterday that consent for all stages meant that the entire shopping centre could be completed as one project. All eight houses at present on the site would become vacant by next January and would then be removed. Contractors will begin building the second stage at the beginning of next February.

The shopping centre is expected to be the biggest in the South Island but considerably smaller than the biggest in the country, at Pakuranga, near Auckland. When the sheltered malls and public areas and all the amenities and ancillary buildings are added the centre will comprise nearly 120,000 square feet of buildings and covered areas. Off-street parking will be provided for 500-600 cars.

The spokesman for the company said much detailed planning and design work had gone into the project since it was first announced last July. To cater for the expected extra demand for shopping facilities, the specialty and variety food shops would have an increased area to let of more than 42,000 square feet.

Letting arrangements for individual shops were expected to be decided in the New Year.