Its Centre City New World supermarket in central Dunedin is to be redeveloped and its car park expanded, at the expense of three tenants who must vacate their premises: Dunedin’s Urgent Pharmacy, Southern Community Laboratories and Dunedin Urgent Doctors and Accident Centre, all of which are across the road from Dunedin Hospital.
The medical trio are expecting to make an announcement of relocating together to an as yet unidentified site, not far from the hospital.
Foodstuffs chief executive Steve Anderson and general manager of property Roger Davidson were contacted for comment on Thursday, but the ODT was referred to Foodstuffs’ communications team, in Auckland.
A list of emailed questions went unanswered for more than 24 hours.
A communications spokeswoman responded yesterday with: "We have no comment at this stage. We will be sure to let you know as soon as we do".
The ODT inquiries concerned the size of the supermarket, car park extension, its potential to close during redevelopment, how much the development was costing and whether it would require resource consent, or merely a building permit.
