Ballarat’s rapidly growing western retail precinct is set to get a major shot in the arm with another $33 million development on the corner of the Glenelg Highway and Cherry Flat Road.
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Bunnings Warehouse recently lodged the planning application for a new 17,000 square metre premises which is expected to create about 200 construction jobs.
Should the application be given the green light construction is set to begin in the first quarter of 2018.
In a statement Bunnings property general manager Andrew Marks said the new store would be in addition to the existing Creswick Road premises.
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The announcement comes just three months after the mammoth Delacombe Town Centre was opened, driven by lead tenants Woolworths, Kmart and Ballarat’s second movie theatre, Showbiz Cinemas.
The site which sits across from the Delacombe Town Centre has been touted as a future bulky goods retail premises since the development of the Ballarat West Precinct Structure Plan, which was approved in 2012.
Delacombe Town Centre landlord Steven Troon said he was extremely excited to see a national retailer like Bunnings building across the road. He said the shopping centre was already experiencing additional growth, with Kmart’s auto service store to open in the new year as well as a Groove Train chain restaurant. Another national retailer is also expected to be announced at the front of the shopping centre site in the new year.
We’re really excited these major retailers have expressed confidence in Ballarat’s west and I think you can expect to see a lot more of this in the coming three to four years,” Mr Troon said.
Early planning applications for a 2.87-hectare extension to the Delacombe Town Centre worth more than $12 million were also lodged earlier in the year, however developer Michael Lasky said the stage two construction would not begin until the shopping centre’s first element was firmly established.
