New World St Martins supermarket on schedule
Work on building a New World supermarket at St Martins is on
schedule and should be ready for opening in the middle of this
year.
The $20 million project, which will also include other retail
outlets such as a bank, café and chemist, is at the foundation
stage.
Roger Davidson, General Manager Property and Retail Development
for Foodstuffs South Island, said that the piling work, which took
three months to complete, was finished in October and now the focus
was on the foundations and underground services.
"There may not be much to see above ground, but once we start on
that stage the building will move along pretty quickly.
"It is a $20 million project all up and should be a definite
asset to the community," he said.
The supermarket will be slightly bigger than the previous
building, but because it will be a much more modern building with
modern layout, it will be able to carry a substantially bigger and
wider range of items.
"We are very committed to getting St Martins back to normality
as quickly as possible," he said.