Karingal Hub expansion set to impress
Published on 04 March 2021
Work on the $160 million Karingal Hub expansion has ramped up, with the enhanced shopping centre due to open later this year.
Frankston City Council Mayor, Kris Bolam and CEO, Phil Cantillon, were lucky enough to sneak a peek of the progress when they toured the site last month.
Cr Bolam said residents would love the upgraded centre which would provide exciting new retailers, dining, entertainment, playgrounds and even more free parking.
“The area will also be enhanced by tree planting along the periphery of Karingal Hub, which Council negotiated as part of the permit approval process,” the Mayor added.
“Everyone wants to know what is going on behind the scenes so it was amazing to tour the site and the project is coming along beautifully.
“The revitalised shopping centre will be an absolute asset to Karingal. I commend ISPT for investing in our community and encourage other developers to explore the benefits of Frankston City.”
Mr Cantillon said the development was in a prime location for local families.
“It is the largest private investment locally in decades and is creating jobs and providing attractive new dining, retail and entertainment options which will boost our economy by ensuring people shop close to home.”
ISPT General Manager, Retailer Services, Sam Curry, said centre owners, ISPT, were very pleased with the progress of works at Karingal Hub Shopping Centre in what had been a challenging 12 months.
“We have reached a significant number of milestones including the unveiling of our new food court, a refurbished Woolworths store, opening of the new lower ground carpark along with upgrades to our existing internal malls and centre entrances,” Mr Curry said.
“We are very excited about what is yet to come, delivering a transformed and revitalised Karingal Hub to provide meaningful experiences for our customers and local community.”
The revitalised centre will be home to Woolworths, Coles and Aldi, a market style fresh food experience, the only Big W in the Peninsula region, a new mix of specialty retailers and a modern, vibrant dining and entertainment precinct.
To complement Village Cinema, the Town Square will feature a range of new dining experiences and play spaces for younger and older children.
The fresh food mall will open in mid-2021, but the new look Woolworths store is already complete with convenient and direct access from the centre’s brand-new lower ground, undercover carpark. Once complete, the shopping centre development will offer 650 extra free car parking bays (2750 in total).
The redevelopment is also expected to create more than 200 jobs during construction and 300 ongoing full time and part time jobs thereafter.
If you’re checking out the new Woolworths store between Thursday 4 March and Saturday 20 March please give generously to the Life-Gate food drive. Donations will help provide food to those in need locally.
Keep up to date on milestones for the development by following the Karingal Hub Facebook page.