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$100m expansion for shopping hub

newsBusiness23 Mar 10 @ 07:30am by Adam Todd



THESE are the first public images of the $100 million Burnside Village redevelopment, which is set to kick off in July.

The expanded shopping hub, owned by the Cohen Group, will be built around the centre’s famous 12m tall River Red Gum, which will be covered with a large glass ceiling.

There will be an extra 35 shops, taking the overall total to 120, when the revamp is finished in April 2012.

The centre also will have 1150 car parking spaces, up from 650.

Cohen Group development manager Peter Cohen said about 70 per cent of the new shops had already been let.He would not reveal who had taken up the tenancies until later in the year.

“We’re keeping about 30 per cent, some of the prime sites, for special exclusive tenancies that you won’t find anywhere else in South Australia or even Australia,” he said.

Mr Cohen said the new shops would have a strong fashion and lifestyle focus.

“We’re building a fashion conscious and orientated shopping centre to serve the community, with high-end lifestyle, high-end fashion but for all age groups and budgets.”

The new centre also will have a medical centre and pharmacy.

Mr Cohen said building around the tree would allow for two-storey shops with 6m high shopfronts.

“That’s extraordinarily tall, it will be unique encompassing the existing gum tree.”

The redevelopment will expand the shopping centre north, meaning the demolition of the Pavilion building, which houses Sussan, and the old Glenside Shopping Centre, which includes the bakery, fruit and veg store and Flight Centre. Mr Cohen said those tenants were being relocated.

“Obviously there’s going to be a bit of disruption, because you can’t avoid noise and dust with the cranes, but from a customer perspective, there’ll be no change.”

Mr Cohen said this was Stage 3 in a seven-stage redevelopment process.

He said the next stage would involve an upgrade to the existing centre to the south, which was built 20 years ago.

monotonehell wrote:Building a roof over a tree.... hrmmmz. Has it stopped growing?

Splashmo wrote:I can't believe they're spending $100m on something like Burnside Village... then I think about it and I guess that makes sense. Burnside Village is our local so it'll be interesting to see how it turns out.

There will be an extra 35 shops, taking the overall total to 120, when the revamp is finished in April 2012.

The centre also will have 1150 car parking spaces, up from 650.

veemur wrote:

monotonehell wrote:Building a roof over a tree.... hrmmmz. Has it stopped growing?

And it's a River Red gum - aren't they renowned for dropping limbs?
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Prince George wrote:

There will be an extra 35 shops, taking the overall total to 120, when the revamp is finished in April 2012.

The centre also will have 1150 car parking spaces, up from 650.

Hmm, 40% more shops, 75% more parking spaces.