By Kirra Grimes
COMMERCIAL property developers are hoping to attract another large format retailer to Wonthaggi when Bunnings Warehouse vacates its existing store at the end of next year.
Retail property specialist Mike Harper of MPG Funds Management, which owns the site of the existing Bunnings store at 45-61 McKenzie Street, confirmed the company is aware of Bunnings’ plans to move to a larger, purpose-built premises further along the street, and sees these plans as “further proof that Wonthaggi and the surrounding area provides very strong retail trading conditions”.
MPG sees “significant opportunity for large format retail development” at the existing Bunnings site, Mr Harper told the Sentinel-Times.
Exactly which retailer that would be hadn’t been decided yet, he said, as the new Bunnings store wasn’t due to open until the end of next year, and Bunnings would continue to operate at MPG’s site until then.
Bass Coast Shire Council endorsed a planning application to construct a new Bunnings Warehouse at the former Miners Rest/Capital Motel site at 140 McKenzie Street at its September meeting.
Bunnings has confirmed all of its team members from the existing store will transfer to the new store once it’s completed and will be joined by over 50 new team members.
Spotlight, OfficeWorks,
officeworks
Indoor skatepark or go carts or something for the kids
Spotlight, Lincraft or another home and craft store would benefit the whole shire.
We really need a spotlight store in wonthaggi, I think the existing bunnings site would be perfect for this.
Spotlight
Id appreciate a zambrero more then absolutely anything! Id also really like a krispy kreme and also one of those stores that sells stuff that’s damaged like from supermarkets, so then we arent wasting as much and all the pensioners/ not rich people in the area can afford food that the packaging has been damaged or like a beauty shop like lush or bath and body works or a j b hi fi or even a athleticfoot or even an ishka or lingerie store they would all be super ideal, so we dont have to commute so far away some of us have to travel really far for stuff like this.