matakanafeature 24 Mahurangimatters December 16, 2015 building Matakana FEATURE Raphaella A BRUSH WITH ART Raphaella is your local painting and decorating specialist company servicing Warkworth and surrounding districts for the past 12 years. [email protected] • 021 507 463 LIST NOW COMMUNITY DIRECTORY Keeping locals in touch with locals *FREE for not-for-profit service clubs, groups and organisations localmatters.co.nz/communitydirectory A new retail building opens in Matakana this month, expanding the hub of the town further north. The development at 38 Matakana Valley Road is now fully tenanted, with all three businesses expected to be open for business before New Year. Finishing Touches, currently based in the village, is opening a second store specialising in furniture, while catering company La Patisserie hopes to open a patisserie and commercial kitchen in late December. Bayleys Real Estate is also opening an office in the development. Developer and project manager Craig Clark bought the former fish factory about 18 months ago and construction started in June. The building has been extended by about 100m2 to make 450m2 of retail space and 20 car parks. “We’ve basically gutted the building and built a completely new frontage,” Mr Clark says. The building has been designed in keeping with the style of the town, with large decks, and a wooden frontage, he says. “I think Matakana has a good future. Once the motorway is extended to Warkworth the whole area is going to take off.” Architect Grant Neill of Pacific Environments designed the building along with Mr Clark while L’Daubeney Construction was the lead contractor. The land was originally the site of the St Andrew’s Church, which is now at the Matakana Country Park. The church was built in 1895, but was barged to Snells Beach in 1992 to serve as the Salvation Army chapel. It was returned by barge to the Country Park in 2007. Matakana enters new phase as development opens Meanwhile, construction of the 660m2 Mortimer development next door is finishing this month and tenants will be opening their doors early next year. A restaurant is being developed by Daniel O’Donnell, formerly of The Stables restaurant at Matakana Country Park. He will open in the building in February. A dentist has also been confirmed and will open in April. Mr Craig says the developments will complement each other. “It’s going to bring more people to this end of town. If this site was still a fish factory it would make things feel a bit different. The fact we’re both able to find tenants says a lot about the growth of Matakana.” Meanwhile, the Matakana Green eco-home development at 244 Matakana Valley Road is underway. Three homes are under construction and 28 of the 35 sections have sold. “I expect they will all be sold by the New Year,” development sales manager David Wildish says. “By this time next year there will be over 20 houses, either built or underway, and the first residents will move in early next year. The interest has mainly come from locals and people from Auckland, with a mix of retirees and families.” Tenders have closed for the sale of the Matakana Pub and the owners are understood to be in negotiations with a number of prospective buyers. The 112-year- old building went on the market in October. Three businesses are opening their doors in the new development this month.
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matakanafeature24 Mahurangimatters December 16, 2015
building Matakana FEATURE
RaphaellaA BRUSH WITH ART
Raphaella is your local paintingand decorating specialist company servicing Warkworth and surrounding
A new retail building opens in Matakana this month, expanding the hub of the town further north.The development at 38 Matakana Valley Road is now fully tenanted, with all three businesses expected to be open for business before New Year.Finishing Touches, currently based in the village, is opening a second store specialising in furniture, while catering company La Patisserie hopes to open a patisserie and commercial kitchen in late December. Bayleys Real Estate is also opening an office in the development.Developer and project manager Craig Clark bought the former fish factory about 18 months ago and construction started in June.The building has been extended by about 100m2 to make 450m2 of retail space and 20 car parks.“We’ve basically gutted the building and built a completely new frontage,” Mr Clark says. The building has been designed in keeping with the style of the town, with large decks, and a wooden frontage, he says.“I think Matakana has a good future. Once the motorway is extended to Warkworth the whole area is going to take off.”Architect Grant Neill of Pacific Environments designed the building along with Mr Clark while L’Daubeney Construction was the lead contractor.The land was originally the site of the St Andrew’s Church, which is now at the Matakana Country Park. The church was built in 1895, but was barged to Snells Beach in 1992 to serve as the Salvation Army chapel. It was returned by barge to the Country Park in 2007.
Matakana enters new phase as development opens
Meanwhile, construction of the 660m2 Mortimer development next door is finishing this month and tenants will be opening their doors early next year.A restaurant is being developed by Daniel O’Donnell, formerly of The Stables restaurant at Matakana Country Park. He will open in the building in February.A dentist has also been confirmed and will open in April.Mr Craig says the developments will complement each other.“It’s going to bring more people to this end of town. If this site was still a fish factory it would make things feel a bit different. The fact we’re both able to find tenants says a lot about the growth of Matakana.”
Meanwhile, the Matakana Green eco-home development at 244 Matakana Valley Road is underway. Three homes are under construction and 28 of the 35 sections have sold.“I expect they will all be sold by the New Year,” development sales manager David Wildish says. “By this time next year there will be over 20 houses, either built or underway, and the first residents will move in early next year. The interest has mainly come from locals and people from Auckland, with a mix of retirees and families.”Tenders have closed for the sale of the Matakana Pub and the owners are understood to be in negotiations with a number of prospective buyers. The 112-year-old building went on the market in October.
Three businesses are opening their doors in the new development this month.
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As the retail zone in Matakana spreads, plans to fill the open drains on Matakana Valley Road and create parking spaces are gaining traction.Matakana Community Group (MCG) chair Dr Simon Barclay says the group has been campaigning for years to get work done on the drains, but negotiations with Auckland Transport (AT) appear to be making ground at last.“We’ve made it a priority for the group over the next year,” Dr Barclay says. Designs are underway which will hopefully allow work to begin, he says.“AT has agreed to investigate the project if we are able to supply designs for the work. Hutchinson Consulting Engineers is producing preliminary plans for the drains pro bono and the road layout designs have been completed. Detailed design of the drainage system is now being undertaken.”The proposal will create parallel and angled parking along a section of Matakana Valley Road, creating about 50 parking spaces.The developer of the new retail building opening at 38 Matakana Valley Road, Craig Clark, says Matakana isn’t the small rural town it used to be and infrastructure needs to keep up with development.
“With two new retail developments being completed in this part of town, Council should make a contribution to Matakana,” Mr Clark says.Warwick Mortimer, who is also developing a retail building on the street, says he has raised the issue with Council numerous times.“It’s a major safety concern for us,” Mr Mortimer says. “It’s an eyesore and a danger. There have been numerous occasions of people falling into the drains and cars getting stuck.”Meanwhile, plans to create a large parking lot on land beside Matakana School are taking shape. Designs completed by Warkworth Surveyors show the space would have about 90 parks, which could be used by the school during the week and as a public parking lot during weekends and school holidays. The land would also create a safe pick-up/drop-off zone for parents driving children to school.Dr Barclay says Council has been supportive of the project and the plans will go to Council for approval early next year. “In a best-case scenario, the work will start early next year,” Mr Barclay says.The Matakana Variety Concert last month raised $14,000 towards the project. Full costs and funding are still being finalised.
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After three years of supplying French pastries, artisan breads and desserts to cafes and restaurants throughout Mahurangi, Christian Herbulot is opening La Patisserie in Matakana, so people can buy his delicacies straight from the source.The shop is in the new retail development on Matakana Valley Road, which opens this month, and will sell an expanded range of goods from Christian’s renowned Bonjour Patisserie catering company.But, Christian says the real reason he is opening La Patisserie is to give him more time to make cakes.“Cakes are my passion,” Christian says. “I want to sell a range of about 15 different mini-cakes from the patisserie. I enjoy making pastries and breads, but with cakes you can really get creative. The flavours and styles are endless. It becomes a kind of self-expression.”Christian’s fixation with baking started when he was six years old, when he made his first cake with his father, while growing up in the Republic of the Congo.“It was a caramel-cream cake. He didn’t cook often, but he would make that cake twice a month. Since then I’ve been hooked.”He started working at his grandmother’s bakery for pocket money during school
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holidays, before moving to Paris to study at the prestigious Paris School of Patisserie and begin his career in the mixing bowl.Twenty-five years on, and Christian says his passion for baking hasn’t ebbed. “I think it’s the most important trait of a great baker. You can be talented, but you have to have the passion to make the perfect cake.”He says there is a growing appetite for pastries in NZ, as people venture outside the custard square.“People are beginning to seek out quality pastries and their expectations are higher, which is good. Every bite should be a real experience.”To meet the increasing demand, Christian is expanding to cater for businesses as far afield as Silverdale and Whangarei and hiring more staff.La Patisserie will open six days a week from December 20.
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