Major development on Gough’s city site
A new multi-storey National Bank building and a s4.lm shopping centre and car-park will be built in Christchurch on the former city site of Gough, Gough, and Hamer, Ltd, which runs between Cashel and Hereford Streets.
The bank will be built at the Hereford Street end of the site, which also includes the adjacent Union Steam Ship Company building which Gough, Gough, and Hamer owned. This building will be demolished in the next two months. Test bores for the new bank will be sunk soon after.
The $4. Im shopping centre and car parking building will be built by the developer, Atkinson and Forbes. Ltd, on the Cashel street site of Gough, Gough, and Hamer. Subject to the approval of the Building Programmer, work is expected to begin in August, the same month that the Gough, Gough, and Hamer building will be demolished. SHOPPING ARCADE
Plans for the complex provide for a shopping arcade on the ground floor and part of the first floor, which will be topped by 15 levels of car-parking. This will provide
space for 474 cars, and cost $2.9m. Negotiations are well advanced for the lease of the parking facility by the Christchurch City Council. The Town Clerk (Mr J. H. Gray) said yesterday that the council proposed to lease the facility on a similar basis to the car parking in the A.M.P. Society development in Worcester Street.
The shopping centre fronting Cashel Street will provide 21,000 sq. ft of retail space. A feature of the tiled shopping arcade will be “hot air” curtains to provide a form of air conditioning. Two 13-passenger lifts from the centre of the shopping arcade will provide access to the parking area. Mr Gray said that the new parking building was a prerequisite to the pedestrian malls proposed by the City Council for Cashel and High Streets.
The parking building was provided for in the council’s district scheme and would be a means of stimulating trade in the central business area. APPLICATION SUPPORTED The application by Atkinson and Forbes to the Building Controller would be supported by the City Council, as it was an essential element in the growth of offstreet parking in the central citv area.
The general manager of
Gough, Gough, and Hamer (Mr W. O. Nicholson) said yesterday that the firm’s two frontages had been sold for more than $750,000.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33565, 20 June 1974, Page 12
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