$55m Mount Duneed Village to open next year

Mount Duneed residents will soon have access to a host of new shops and amenities at the $55m complex, including a Champions IGA. See the designs.

Artist's impression of the Mount Duneed Village. The village is scheduled to open in the second half of 2024 and will include a Champions IGA.

Work is progressing on a $55m shopping centre at Mount Duneed which developers say will open late next year.

Mount Duneed Village, on a 2.6-hectare site at the corner of Unity and Sovereign drives, will have new shops and amenities including a Champions IGA.

The project was first announced in 2020, with developers Villawood Properties and Empire Property Builders saying in 2021 a “lengthy council approval process” had held up progressing the Armstrong estate complex.

Visitors to the village will be able to shop at the IGA and a Chemist Warehouse, and dine at a cafe, Italian and Indian restaurants.

Amenities will include medical and dentist facilities, a hairdresser, an Omega daycare and a Saltwater Learn to Swim pool centre.

Artist's impression of the Mount Duneed Village. The village will host a Saltwater Learn to Swim pool centre.

The village will also be a home to some, with 41 apartments and 52 townhouses under construction.

“It will provide residents more choice with close, ready access to services and facilities people need every day, including later in the day such as restaurants,” Villawood executive director Rory Costelloe said.

Artist's impression of the Mount Duneed Village.

“The centre is also pioneering medium density living in the greenfields, with the first four-level project in the Geelong growth corridor.”

“This is a forerunner of what we will see in the new Batesford and Lovely Banks growth corridors, where some 18,000 blocks are planned for Geelong’s north and west in coming years as the region gears up to grow to a population of half a million.”

It's undertood construction of the village has provided 60 jobs and the village will employ 80 people when it opens.

Originally published as $55m Mount Duneed Village to open next year