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An artist’s impression of an apartment block planned by Fletcher Living for the former site of the Redcliffs supermarket.
Plans to turn a former Christchurch supermarket into an apartment complex would see most of the existing building demolished.
Fletcher Living recently lodged its bid for resource consent to redevelop the closed Redcliffs supermarket on the corner of Main Rd and Augusta St in the suburb of Redcliffs.
The company bought the building from supermarket operator Foodstuffs in late 2021 for $5.5 million.
It was constructed in 2015 as a New World supermarket to replace the previous one wrecked by the earthquakes.
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A cafe will sit at the corner of Main Rd and Augusta St. (Artist’s impression)
Foodstuffs rebranded it as a Four Square store in 2020 during the Covid pandemic, but closed the doors in April 2021, due to lack of patronage.
It has been vacant since then.
The Fletcher plan is to demolish the upper two-thirds of the building but retain the ground floor car park as a podium.
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The New World supermarket in Redcliffs approaching completion in 2015.
Two levels of apartments, 22 in total, would be built in a U-shape on top of the car park, around a central courtyard.
A retail space, likely to be a cafe, would go at street level.
The new building would be about 12m tall, the same height as the existing supermarket, and occupy a similar footprint.
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A central courtyard will sit between the apartments. (Artist’s impression)
Fletcher Living is one of New Zealand’s busiest home builders. It has already developed several hundred townhouses and apartments in the central city’s east frame and is also building homes in Halswell and Lincoln.
The one, two and three-bedroom Redcliffs apartments would range in size from 50m² to 120m².
The resource consent application lodged with the Christchurch City Council says the apartments would widen the housing choice in the area, as the homes would be “much smaller than the existing housing stock, and have fewer bedrooms”.
The average value of homes in Redcliffs, according to property analyst CoreLogic, is $1.17m.
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An artist’s impression blended with a photo to show how the development would look.
The consent application estimates that residents of the building would put about $1.5m a year into the local economy.
A Fletcher Living spokesperson said they were “currently working through a design process” and hoped to apply for building consent later this year.
He said it was “a bit premature” to give price details for the apartments.
Construction is expected to take about two years. The land now has a commercial zoning.
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