During a confidential section of Tuesday night's meeting, councillors voted to "endorse the design and construction of a new community facility" at 26 Shaw Street in Wagga.

The new site is the former Wagga Women's Bowling Club near the Duke of Kent Oval and council staff identified constructing a new building as the preferred option based on location, cost, timing and quality.

Wagga Veteran and Vintage Motor Club relocation committee member Rob Le Lievre said the group was looking forward to moving in.

"It's good, it's going over to probably a quieter site for us and getting away from a busy corner," he said.

"We're looking at a new building that in some way will be purpose-built for us and other groups in mind.

"We are looking forward to a new beginning, I suppose."

The club encourages the preservation of vintage and classic vehicles, holds weekend car rallies and meets monthly at its clubrooms.

Mr Le Lievre said members were on board with the need to move. The new home will be the group's first clubrooms that have not been repurposed from an old building or built with a "shoe-string budget" since its founding in 1967.

The council securing a new site for community clubrooms is the latest step in a development application that has, at times, sparked protests over the past two years and saw the previous site sold at public auction in December.

Property firm Damasa and the Donebus family intend to build a residential, office and retail complex across much of the Docker, Forsyth, Murray and Morgan streets block.

The council has yet to release a budget or timeline for constructing the new building and strategic asset planner Ben Creighton said it was "early days" for the project.

"Ultimately it will be a community facility with meeting spaces, amenities, a kitchen and it will be something really positive for the community," he said.

"It will give another high-quality space that community groups will be able to use within the CBD."

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