Invercargill Central Ltd project director Geoff Cotton has confirmed they're on schedule to get the Farmers department store and surrounding retail stores open in 12 months.
Invercargill Central reported three-quarters of the concrete precast panels of the anchor-tenant Farmers building are in place. The Farmers store is expected to be completed by mid-2022, with food outlets set to open about September 2022, and the rest of the stores to open by the end of 2022. Last week the concrete was poured for the second floor of the car park, and construction of the HWR office tower begun, however it would be several weeks before progress of the tower could be seen above ground. There would be space for more than 600 cars in the block development. The HWR office tower, on the corner of Esk and Dee streets, will house about 100 of the company s staff members.
“It’s not a large surprise . we collected everything in the field.” Artefacts found were sent in 600 boxes to NZ Heritage Properties’ main office in Dunedin. After analysed and documented, consignments of artefacts were sent back to Invercargill Central Ltd. Included in the latest consignment were an old beer bottle from 1910, a 1870s Torpedo soda bottle and a leather boot manufactured before 1905. Marked on the beer bottle was: Digger brand, Whittingham & Co Waikiwi, Ale stout. “The Torpedo soda bottles were designed to always sit on their side to keep the cork wet and to keep the pressure, so the drink doesn’t go flat,” Woods said.
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Invercargill Central Ltd director Scott O’Donnell, pictured here in the old Cambridge Arcade says strengthening earthquake prone buildings comes at a huge cost. The arcade was listed on the priority earthquake prone building register. It was demolished as part of the CBD redevelopment, but care was taken to keep historical facades.
The cost of strengthening earthquake prone buildings poses a significant challenge to small-town New Zealand, Invercargill Central Ltd director Scott O’Donnell says. This comes after the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) recently announced that all the priority earthquake prone buildings in New Zealand’s high seismic risk areas had been identified, and it was moving on to identifying the non-priority buildings that needed strengthening.
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Invercargill Central Ltd director Scott O’Donnell, pictured here in the old Cambridge Arcade says strengthening earthquake prone buildings comes at a huge cost. The arcade was listed on the priority earthquake prone building register. It was demolished as part of the CBD redevelopment, but care was taken to keep historical facades.
The cost of strengthening earthquake prone buildings poses a significant challenge to small-town New Zealand, Invercargill Central Ltd director Scott O’Donnell says. This comes after the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) recently announced that all the priority earthquake prone buildings in New Zealand’s high seismic risk areas had been identified, and it was moving on to identifying the non-priority buildings that needed strengthening.