Waikato Business News March/April 2023
Waikato Business News has for a quarter of a century been the voice of the region’s business community, a business community with a very real commitment to innovation and an ethos of co-operation.
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Cornerstone delivers much-needed<br />
accommodation to Leamington<br />
The way we live is changing, and apartment living is<br />
quickly becoming the way of the future. The small town<br />
of Leamington, located in New Zealand’s <strong>Waikato</strong> region,<br />
is getting its first taste of this with the newly opened<br />
Cornerstone development. This development is the first of<br />
its type in Leamington and the third of its kind in Cambridge.<br />
Located on the corner<br />
of Burns and Campbell<br />
Streets, the four-story<br />
mixed model development is<br />
a family affair. Les and Elayne<br />
O’Leary, owners of The Village<br />
@Leamington, started the<br />
project, and their son, Adam<br />
O’Leary, completed it. The<br />
project has been hampered by<br />
situations beyond the O’Leary’s<br />
control, but Adam says that it’s<br />
awesome to see his parents’<br />
initial vision come to fruition,<br />
albeit in a somewhat altered<br />
guise.<br />
The idea to develop the site<br />
was seeded in 2009 when Les<br />
and Elayne, in partnership<br />
with another party, agreed to<br />
build a supermarket, a pub/<br />
tavern, and adjoining shops.<br />
They discovered, through<br />
their project manager Peter<br />
Knox, that the other party was<br />
actually bankrupt. The couple<br />
went ahead with as much of the<br />
project as they could afford,<br />
building the supermarket, pub,<br />
and four other shops. Called<br />
The Village @Leamington,<br />
Fresh Choice took up the<br />
supermarket lease, the pub<br />
became the Five Stags Tavern,<br />
and Thai Food Cambridge,<br />
Liquor Hut NZ Pizza and<br />
Kebab, and Royal Cambridge<br />
occupy the other four spaces.<br />
Completed in 2012, it left<br />
an L-shaped section empty as<br />
there wasn’t funding available<br />
to further the development.<br />
I think everyone’s<br />
quite happy, it<br />
will be finally<br />
completed, it’s<br />
that sense of<br />
satisfaction that<br />
it’s done. My<br />
parents were<br />
quite happy<br />
when I suggested<br />
that we should do<br />
something with<br />
grass area.<br />
Solutions for every surface<br />
Solutions for every surface<br />
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