Manukau City Centre Southern End – Renewal

Written by Ben Ross - Talking Auckland

Bringing the two projects together

 

Over the last wee while I have been working on two Sketch Up projects at the southern end of the Manukau City Centre. They were:

  1. Lot 59 redevelopment (recently mentioned again here: The Reaction To My Presentation to the Auckland Development Committee [Updated with figures and links]) which a multi-use complex consisting of:
    1. Residential Tower
    2. Te Papa North complex
    3. Office space
    4. Retail and cafes/restaurants
    5. Arcade
    6. Bus Interchange
  2. Manukau Metro Town Centre, located in on the southern car park of the Westfield Manukau Mall facility. Again this multi-use complex composed of:
    1. Residential Tower
    2. Office space
    3. Retail Space
    4. Arcades
    5. Restaurant/Cafe/Bar/Entertainment precinct
    6. Park which included a pocket park and a playground

Both complexes have Sky Train Stations (see: A Botany Line Sky Train Station for more) near by.

 

Yesterday I merged the two projects together into a combined project that is named: Manukau City Centre Southern End Renewal Project. The combining of the two previous developments allows me to begin work on other individual projects in the Manukau City Centre (a Metropolitan Centre under the Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan) before stitching them together to form the whole-scale Manukau City Centre Renewal Project.

Below is some pictures taken of the two individual projects now joined together to form the Manukau City Centre Southern End Renewal Project:

Manukau City Centre Southern End Top View Reference for the Sketch Up Pocket Park: http://land8.com/photo/athens-urban-park-exparking/next?context=user
Manukau City Centre South End East to West Iso Reference for the Sketch Up Pocket Park: http://land8.com/photo/athens-urban-park-exparking/next?context=user
Manukau City Centre South End Iso North to South Reference for the Sketch Up Pocket Park: http://land8.com/photo/athens-urban-park-exparking/next?context=user
Manukau City Centre South End Iso South to North Reference for the Sketch Up Pocket Park: http://land8.com/photo/athens-urban-park-exparking/next?context=user
Manukau City Centre South End Iso west to east Reference for the Sketch Up Pocket Park: http://land8.com/photo/athens-urban-park-exparking/next?context=user
Manukau City Centre South End to MIT complex Reference for the Sketch Up Pocket Park: http://land8.com/photo/athens-urban-park-exparking/next?context=user
Walk around looking from Park to the west Reference for the Sketch Up Pocket Park: http://land8.com/photo/athens-urban-park-exparking/next?context=user
Walk around Manukau Mall Station

 

So it was a busy afternoon stitching these two individual projects together after which I went on a “walk around” to see what the developments would be like from a person’s perspective.

 

As I noted on Friday the land parcel size at Lot 59 is around 17,425m2 while the Manukau Metro Town Centre, and the park are 11,076m2 and 4,630m2 respectively. So these are decent size land parcels Council should be hanging onto and redeveloping themselves rather than flogging them off as they are in the process of doing with Lot 59 (unless the Council stops it). The mall itself (minus the office annex on the eastern side) is around: 48,000m2 including the cinemas.

Plenty of development potential on large parcels of land in Manukau City Centre, a commercial centre. Large parcels of land that we are short of and the Council very well knows about too.

 

Time to be a bit more switched on with our development potential especially in Brownfield areas.

 

Here is the example from Brent Toderian on his last visit of a mall like Manukau redeveloping itself to become part of a true Metropolitan Centre:

Brentwood Town Centre
http://www.scribd.com/doc/181328881/Brent-Toderian-Presentation-At-Auckland-Aotea-Centre#page=29 Reference and Credit to Toderian Urban Works

 

Brent is here in Auckland again presenting on Monday about the vibrance of Waterfronts and their developments. Still I have not forgotten about his last one in October in which Manukau was singled out (Brent Toderian and his Urban Design Presentation). That said this redevelopment in Manukau no matter what shape will happen as Southern Auckland continues to evolve as a population, employment and power centre all on its own.