The Hastings CBD's newest additions were officially opened at a special ceremony led by Wallace Developments at the weekend.
The company redeveloped the shops in Heretaunga St West for Cotton On Mega store, PaperPlus and Caroline Eve. Mayor Lawrence Yule did the honours by opening the new section of retail, in the former Farmers' whiteware site, under the Hastings clock tower.
Company development manager Mike Walker said he was happy to see the project completed.
"It was a relatively straight-forward ground-floor retail development but we had to make changes to accommodate the earthquake-strengthening requirements, which were more extensive than first thought."
It was the second major project in the city for the company. Farmers combined its two Hastings' stores into one this year, at a new site further down Heretaunga St West, which was also the work of Wallace Developments.