Two Calder Stewart commercial buildings worth several million dollars are taking shape in South Dunedin, as tilt-slab concrete panels are lifted and set in place.
Construction on the corner of King Edward St and Wilkie Rd, formerly a large car yard, is well advanced.
The development is for three separate but trade-related retail tenants which will be used for warehousing and distribution centres for trade products, mainly for tradesmen but open to the public.
It will have 29 parking spaces. Calder Stewart director Alan Stewart was contacted for further details on the buildings' tenants, but declined to comment, citing client confidentiality.
In Timaru St, on part of the former Shoreline Hotel site, the first few tilt-slab panels have been raised recently.
A resource consent approval from the Dunedin City Council said there would be 27 on-site parks to service the 800sq m, 7.5m-high electrical showroom and warehouse and the distribution centre, all on a 40m-by-47m section.
In 2010 the former Ministry of Fisheries' Dunedin branch moved into a custom-designed building on part of the Shoreline site. The department was leasing its premises, with an option to purchase.
In late 2005, the 1.7ha industrially zoned site was listed for sale at $2.4 million and sold for more than $2 million in November that year to Calder Stewart Industries. Hotel demolition was completed by late 2006.
During the past 35 years, the Timaru St site has been home to the Shoreline, Nova Bar and Regines nightclub before being sold by the Shoreline Christian Centre in 2005.
The Shoreline Hotel was bought by the Oamaru Licensing Trust in December 1993 for $1.5 million, then sold to the Word of Life Church in 1999, making about $940,000 on the sale.
For five years, the house bar, dining facilities and 36-room accommodation block were leased out by the church.
