February 20, 2019
A plan to expand Kingaroy’s SupaIGA supermarket – first announced 12 months ago – has taken a major step forward.
At Wednesday’s South Burnett Regional Council meeting, councillors voted unanimously to lease a portion of the former Pound Street Council depot site to the construction company which will be carrying out the expansion project.
The vacant land will be used to store equipment and materials used to form and pour precast concrete wall slabs.
Council has offered to lease the land to the company for a maximum of six months at market rates on condition there is no detrimental effect on the block.
Council decommissioned Pound Street as a works depot after their new site in Ivins Street opened in 2005.
It then spent close to $1 million cleaning up the Pound Street land, finally receiving the all-clear in December 2014 when the site was removed from the State Contaminated Land Register.
Since then, Council has put the block on the market several times in the hope of attracting an interested buyer who would create a development in keeping with the site’s proximity to Kingaroy’s CBD.
However, no firm offers have eventuated.
Council granted a development approval last February to expand the SupaIGA complex in Avoca Street by 11 per cent with the addition of a cafe, pharmacy, liquor store and specialty shop.
The expansion would increase the retail floor space in the complex from 4517 sq m to 5042 sq m but remove several car parking spaces next to the building.
This would allow the supermarket’s entrance to be moved, providing safer pedestrian access to the complex.
The proposal also included putting a roof over Domino Pizza’s outdoor dining area.
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