‘Why we’re downsizing our $50m shopping centre’: New plans lodged with local council
A PLAN to build a new $50m shopping centre in Adelaide’s south is being scaled back and the start-date for construction delayed. Here’s why.
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PLANS for a $50 million shopping centre at Flagstaff Hill have been scaled back, pushing the development’s completion date out by two years.
The Adelaide Development Company has lodged revised plans with Onkaparinga Council that trim $5 million from the project and shrink it by 10 per cent.
ADC chief executive Ian Marker said plans for the shopping centre, opposite Black and Flagstaff roads, were downsized because tenants wanted smaller outlets.
“We prepared a design that we though was the appropriate size and scale that the local community needed,” Mr Marker said.
“But then once we talked in more detail with the various operators, supermarket operators and speciality tenants, it become apparent that we didn’t need a centre that was quite that large.
“They didn’t want quite as big a space as what we thought they did so it was better from an efficiency and economy point of view to do a slightly smaller centre.”
Stage one will include a two level shopping complex, supermarket, liquor store, medical centre, mall and parking.
The council approved the larger-scale plans in 2014, and developers had hoped to open the complex this year.
Mr Marker said work would start next year and the shopping centre would be open by 2018.
“We came up with a solution that was slightly smaller in terms of the footprint and also allows us to have the car park all at one level,” Mr Marker said.
“Before we had a split level with an undercroft car park and whilst that provided the number of car parks, it wasn’t as convenient so bringing it back in size has made it more user-friendly.”