Northern suburbs residents will soon be able to swing by a bottle-o, pick up some groceries and even fill their fuel tanks without leaving the area, as the long-awaiting Boorooma Shopping Centre development moves ahead.
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A development application for the service station planned for the north-east corner of the block is currently on public exhibition.
The documents include detailed sketches of the proposed design and new details behind the project estimated to cost $3.05 million.
The site's developer, director of the Dunn Group Ben Dunn, said he is confident the shops will be up and running by June or July 2022 and will likely be the first of the various shops planned to open its doors.
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Mr Dunn revealed to The Daily Advertiser that the development of his site will include a bottle shop, mini-mart and cafe as well as a fuel stop.
"The plan at this stage is that it will either be a BP or an AMPOL," Mr Dunn said.
"As far as internals we have our own coffee brand called the Balmain Coffee Company, which is in all our sites, and the plan is to put a small format IGA Express in, even though there will be a supermarket [next door]."
He said they have yet to finalise a liquor store vendor, and confirmed a dog wash will also be included in the planned site as early reports suggested.
Mr Dunn said he was confident their site would be under construction by February and open for business by June 2022 if council approvals go through with no delays.
"I think altogether that store would employ 20 people," he said.
Plans in the development application for the site reveal a two-story blue-toned structure, with the service station, liquor store and dog wash on the ground floor.
The development application documents also reveal the store is projecting four full-time job opportunities in the operation of the store, with 20 temporary positions created during its construction.
The upper floor will be reserved for office space and storage.
Mr Dunn is based in Sydney but grew up in West Wyalong.
He said the Dunn Group, which recently took over as owners of BP in Central Wagga, was drawn to Wagga as a growing regional hub.
"Sydney is expensive whereas big towns like Wagga are just as good because they're so big, the population is there, and they are cheaper," he said.
The service station development is one part of a six-lot commercial development of the Boorooma site.
Eight specialty shops have been approved for one lot on the site, a supermarket is planned for another and the service station will sit on the north east corner.
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