CBD developers HWCP Management Ltd plan to have its anchor tenant operating by November 2021 if it is granted resource consent to demolish and rebuild an Invercargill block. HWCP has an agreement with a yet-to-be-announced anchor tenant to have its building built in time to operate during the 2021 Christmas period. The street entrance into the anchor tenant will be through the facade of the old Southland Times building on Esk St.Other stipulations from the anchor tenant is that 25 per cent of the other retail outlets around the anchor tenant would be operational at the time it opened. - A childcare outlet has been added to the plan and will be situated above the anchor tenant, which from the street will be entered through the old Southland Times facade. HWCP Management Ltd plan to start demolition as soons as it gets resource consent.

Source: Stuff March 28, 2019 05:55 UTC