Toowoomba’s Clifford Gardens Shopping Centre to permanently turn ex-vaccine clinic into new commercial space
A major Toowoomba shopping centre that hosted the city’s former public vaccine clinic has applied to council to redesignate it as a permanent commercial space.
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A Toowoomba shopping centre that hosted the city’s public vaccine clinic has applied to council to redesignate it as a permanent commercial space.
Clifford Gardens Shopping Centre’s owner Elanor Investors Group has lodged plans with the Toowoomba Regional Council to expand the Newtown precinct by reusing the 970 sqm Covid-19 vaccination centre, which was located in an undercover car park.
According to the report by Revolution Town Planning, the site could be used for health care purposes by a future tenant.
“Toowoomba’s Clifford Gardens Shopping Centre to permanently turn ex-vaccine clinic into new commercial space,” the report said.
“The development application has been made for an extension to shopping centre (health care premises) as a health care related use was the land use most recently undertaken within the building.
“However, a tenant for the building is yet to be finalised and a health care use may or may not be undertaken within the building.
“As such, the floor plan formerly used by the vaccination centre may not be the actual floor plan used by the extension.”
The application also includes a new pedestrian connection to Vacy Street, reusing the on-site car park areas and site accesses.
EIG has been busy with its asset after purchasing the centre last year for $145m, improving parts of the interiors and turning certain parts of the parking lot into new uses.
The firm was approved by the council last month for two new drive-through fast food outlets in place of parking along James Street, and was this month given the green light for a self-service car wash in the northeast corner.
Elanor head of retail, development and mixed use Matt Healy indicated last year the company believed Clifford Gardens was “oversupplied” for carparking.
Hodge Real Estate is handling the listing of the ex-clinic, which shut earlier this year.
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