Plans for Taco Bell restaurant at Wagga’s Glenfield Park Shopping centre
The Mexican fast-food chain plans to set up shop in a popular centre, with a restaurant and a drive-thru on site. Find out where.
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Mexican fast-food chain Taco Bell has lodged plans for a $1.5 million restaurant and drive-thru development at Southcity Shopping Centre at Glenfield Park with Wagga Council.
The plan, by developers Habitat Planning, would see the construction of a single-storey food and drink premises at the popular shopping centre.
Taco Bell is a global fast food chain and, if the application is successful, would add to the existing line-up of Mexican fast-food restaurants in Wagga including Guzman and Gomez and Zambreros.
According to the planning documents before council, the chain will offer customers the option to eat-in or takeaway, with a drive-thru facility.
There’ll be car parking for 50 vehicles, plus the development will feature illuminated pylon signage and and landscaping.
“The building will be constructed with generous setbacks to the property’s street frontages at Pinnaroo Drive and Dalman Parkway with an active street frontage and a generally open forecourt area overlooking the proposed 50 space car park,” the planner said.
“The premises will have an approximate gross floor area of 249 sqm.”
Developers argue that the proposed restaurant would have a positive economic impact for the area, and would support other retail and hospitality business activity in the city and provide additional local employment opportunities.
It will be located near Wagga’s central activity area and business centre, and will be around 3km west of the Olympic Hwy.
“The land is located within the commercial B2 Local Centre Zone and comprises a mix of compatible neighbourhood commercial land uses including a shopping centre precinct with a supermarket, specialty retail shops and a drive through food and drink premises (KFC), a medical centre, community church, local collector roads and a medium density residential neighbourhood setting,” the documents state.
“It proposes a high-quality commercial addition to the site that takes advantage of the high-profile mixed-use location and represents the preferred use for the local commercial centre on a vacant commercially zoned land within the local centre of the Glenfield Estate”.
The development application will be on public exhibition until Thursday July 14 before Wagga Council makes a decision on it.
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