Revealed: K & B Mitre 10 and Total Tools moving into the old Mount Gambier Bunnings site
After being vacant for more than half a decade Mount Gambier residents have been dying to know who will be moving into the old Bunnings site. Meet the new tenants.
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After remaining vacant for just over six years, the old Mount Gambier Bunnings site has a new tenant who is expecting to open doors to the public in June.
K & B Mitre 10 and Total Tools will be moving into the space that’s had local residents guessing for weeks with planning and fit-out on the 8,000 square metre site underway.
The current Mitre 10 store along Sturt St will remain open to the public until their new home is ready.
Herbert Commercial sales manager Matt Kain said the development “would completely change the focus of the industrial west end of town”.
“It will potentially be the beginning of further developments of more offerings that are of large retail format, in this end of town,” he said.
K & B Mitre 10 general manager Jarrad Spearman said the development would provide an additional 15 staff to the current team.
“I think anytime you get to reuse a fantastic site like this can only be good for the community,” Mr Spearman said.
“You can see that Mount Gambier is expanding out — and this will absolutely support the new residents and the new businesses that are fuelling that growth.”
With property prices remaining strong in the South-East despite a market downturn, Mr Kain said large-scale developments signalled to investors Mount Gambier was stepping towards the next layer of growth.
“It has certainly become evident through a number of our commercial transactions, that here locally, Mount Gambier is being seen,” he said.
“Some of the bigger retail national brands that probably — skip over smaller regional areas — Mount Gambier is stepping into that next caliber of size.”
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