Work has begun on the site set to become the first shopping centre in Wagga's growing northern suburbs.
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Subdivision site works are underway at the vacant lot on Boorooma Street and Phar Lap Place in Boorooma as development applications for eight retail spaces await council approval.
Fitzpatricks Real Estate's Greg Howick said the works would provide allotments for the different shops and a common driveway through the centre of the site.
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"The site works are quite intensive and will involve substantial retaining walls along Phar Lap Place, there's a number of months of site works to be done before we can start the rest of development," he said.
Once these preliminary works are done and the approval is in, he said development of buildings would be able to move quickly.
The Dunn Group are working on a development application for a BP service station which will likely be submitted within the next 60 days.
Mr Howick said while it was early stages, interest was also strong from supermarkets to take up residence on the site.
"We're very pleased with the progress, it's exciting for the community to see progress and something happening on the site, the overall market response has been very healthy so everyone out there will be very pleased to see some development," he said.
"We'd just like to get everything approved so we can finalise everything and get going ... announce a project completion date."
Gobbagombalin resident Shantal Armstrong said the northern suburbs community would support the shops once they were built.
"You've got Gobbagombalin, Estella, Boorooma and it's getting bigger, you've got something out there that's the size of Glenfield Park, Lloyd that has never previously had a supermarket or a servo," she said.
"You've got to be optimistic, if there's something new being done in the suburb you've got to support it and hope it makes it better."
She said those at the other end of the northern suburbs were especially keen to see movement on the closer proposed shopping centre at Estella.
"Everyone wants to see the development of the Estella shops," she said.
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