A former Thai restaurant and bar in Tauranga is set to make way for a pop-up park and 21 additional car parking spaces.
Contractors are preparing to demolish the properties from 89-92 Devonport Road, with the temporary park installed until the land is developed further.
A pop-up park and further parking is coming to Devonport Road. Photo: Supplied.
Tauranga City Council communications advisor Rachael Schicker has confirmed that fencing will be in place during the redevelopment.
The project is part of a number of measures to increase car parking spaces in the city centre until more permanent investment is made.
Council currently expects the new communal space to be ready by December this year.
The decision to demolish the buildings was made during the Long Term Plan discussions in June.
The shops were deemed as 'old” and have low earthquake compliance ratings, making it inappropriate for council to rent them.
However, they agreed to raise loans of $130,000 in order to clear the site and convert it into carparks that will earn $35,000 a year.
Tauranga developer Paul Bowker is part of a consortium looking at developing the site.
3 comments
At last
Posted on 06-10-2015 13:00 | By Plonker
What took so long, these buildings had way more problems than just EQ. One especially also needed the entire plumbing system replaced. The plan is to redevelop the site but of course nothing is certain there and as TCC is try to get involved in being a developer that more is less spells disaster for any plans of a private developer.
waterfront carparks??
Posted on 06-10-2015 14:07 | By rotovend
must be the only place in the world that spends money developing carparks on waterfront areas. Seriously we need more housing and apartments and public transport not parking right in the city whats already there doesnt get properly used
It is Ironic
Posted on 06-10-2015 19:38 | By Watchdog
that when the downtown Tga was redeveloped and revamped with exotic porphory stone (that's the real rough stuff on the corner of Willow and Spring Street) etc, we lost hundreds of downtown car parks. Most of the loss came from the reclamation area. So, two car park buildings had to be constructed. Such great logic - and the city has never really recovered from that great financial mismanagement. I hope Paul Adams will be extremely careful in what he promotes for the downtown redevelopment. It costs a bomb and the ordinary ratepayers cannot afford additionals on their rates bills. If you want to attract more people to the city centre, why not move the Historic Village up to Dive Crescent and develop it as an old time village. Right handy that would be - complete with ferry wharf for the Mt folks and tourists to head over-spend the day.
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