{"id":629821,"date":"2026-10-14T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629821\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:22:09","slug":"christchurch-costco-store-proposed-near-airport-in-fast-track-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629821\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch Costco store proposed near airport in fast-track application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">MacDonald said people wanted cost-of-living relief, so providing more competition in the local grocery market could only be a \u201cgreat thing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The proposed site is vacant land between Memorial Ave and Avonhead Rd. Photo \/ Supplied \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The proposed site is vacant land between Memorial Ave and Avonhead Rd. Photo \/ Supplied <\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe just have to manage the impacts locally,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">The fast-track application has not been published on the Government\u2019s fast-track application website at this stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Costco and Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop have both been approached for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Costco opened its first and only New Zealand store in Auckland in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">On opening day, it was advertised to open at 8am, but was forced to open an hour earlier because of large queues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">A second store is set to be built in South Auckland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MacDonald said people wanted cost-of-living relief, so providing more competition in the local grocery market could only be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2681,5750,138,4487,2199,10678,124,6741,24572,8589,78,3180,111,139,69,5493,29056,2249,2735],"class_list":["post-629821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-airport","tag-application","tag-business","tag-christchurch","tag-city","tag-costco","tag-could","tag-doors","tag-fasttrack","tag-garden","tag-in","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-open","tag-proposed","tag-soon","tag-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}