The National Party candidate for Papakura, Emma Chatterton, posted images of the map at Saturday\u2019s event, held by NZTA.<\/p>\n
Plans for the new Costco warehouse at Drury, Auckland. Photo \/ EmmaChattertonNZ<\/p>\n
A spokesman for Auckland Council<\/a> today said resource consent had not yet been lodged for the Costco Warehouse Drury<\/a> scheme.<\/p>\n The Costco Drury Community page posted details of the map, showing the location of the store on a 6ha site, beside a supermarket site.<\/p>\n Costco is shown on a new planned street to be called Brookfield Rd, in the greenfields development where Kiwi is selling sites.<\/p>\n The giant American firm\u2019s warehouse is in stage one of the scheme, with residential development earmarked for across the other side of a road.<\/p>\n Rebel Sport and Briscoes is also shown on the map to the city side of a New World supermarket, although Foodstuffs has not announced a New World but has bought a 1.2ha site at Drury.<\/p>\n The new Drury train station and State Highway 1 also feature on the map.<\/p>\n Last November, Kiwi reported on conditional sales of large-format Drury land zoned for retail to Costco, Rebel Sport\/Briscoes and Harvey Norman.<\/p>\n Kiwi CEO Clive Mackenzie and Costco country manager Chris Tingman made a joint statement announcing Costco Wholesale Drury.<\/p>\n \u201cKiwi Property has reached a conditional agreement with Costco Wholesale to sell the retailer 6.4ha of land at its new Drury development, paving the way for New Zealand\u2019s second Costco store,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n NZTA held a Drury\/South Auckland community information day on Saturday at Drury School Hall.<\/p>\n It invited people to meet members of its teams, have questions answered and learn more about projects affecting the area, including:<\/p>\n State Highway 1 Papakura to Drury project;State Highway 22 Drury upgrade project;Waihoehoe Rd upgrade project;SH1 Papakura to Bombay project;Auckland Urban Development Office: Drury neighbourhood;KiwiRail: Drury rail stations;Auckland Transport: New bus services and train stations and Takanini level crossings projects. Kiwi<\/a> is spending hundreds of millions on a new town centre at Drury<\/a>.<\/p>\n Costco is to be its trump card.<\/p>\n Kiwi was also the driving force in bringing Ikea<\/a> to New Zealand with the first store opening last year on December 4.<\/p>\n Mackenzie has referred to the success of Costco opening<\/a> at Westgate in late 2022 as a reason for the Drury plans.<\/p>\n Finance Minister Nicola Willis said last November that Costco Wholesale Westgate had more than 250,000 members.<\/p>\n They pay annual membership fees of $60 to shop there.<\/p>\nThe new train station at Drury. Photo \/ Imogene Bedford<\/p>\n
Emma Chatterton, National candidate for Papakura, at a community event on the weekend where the map for the new Costco Wholesale Drury was on display. Photo \/ EmmaChattertonNZ<\/p>\n
Clive Mackenzie runs the company, which sold land to Costco and Ikea and owns the Sylvia Park shopping centre. Photo \/ Kiwi Property Group<\/p>\n