Film to woo tenants to Syliva Park centre

The framing for the 1.3ha Warehouse at Sylvia Park, near the Southern Motorway, is almost completed.

A Chinese company has produced a "fly-through" movie showing how the $363 million Sylvia Park shopping centre will look.

Developer Kiwi Income Property Trust had the $80,000 film produced to woo tenants to its vast shopping centre being built at Mt Wellington.

Images show shoppers moving throughout the complex and Angus McNaughton, chief executive of Kiwi's manager, said it was one of the most sophisticated marketing packages produced to showcase a property development.

The Shanghai-produced streamed digital images being screened at Kiwi's waterfront offices on Quay St were made in two parts: the first showing the inside and outside of the shopping precincts and the second showing the finished office complex.

Kiwi hopes to draw many of the 700,000 people who live within 20 minutes' drive of Sylvia Park and will soon start building a $2 million railway station on the main North Island trunk line as part of transport links to the 24ha site, equivalent to 34 rugby fields.

A dry winter has helped ease work for the 200 builders and subcontractors on the site, who were prepared to deal with constant downpours. Instead, they have been dampening down the site to minimise dust from earthworks as building platforms are prepared.

At the site, the framing for the 1.3ha Warehouse at the Southern Motorway end of the site is almost completed. This Warehouse will be almost double the size of the chain's largest store in Auckland.

The structure of the main mall area is up, built to have another floor added to it, depending on demand during the next three decades. Until the next storey is added, the roof of the mall will provide some of the 3000 carparks on the site.

Scottish-born Alan McKinnon, Sylvia Park project director, said oregon beams and rimu weatherboards from the 48 World War II army storage sheds demolished last year had been recycled.

"Timber specialists bought the wood which was able to be re-used, but some ruined by insects was turned into mulch for landscaping use," he said.

McNaughton showed how a ring road around the project was being built to allow shoppers and visitors to circumnavigate the site to find a carpark.

People power

* 502,540 people will live a 15-minute drive from Sylvia Park.

* 426,970 will be that far from Westfield's Manukau centre.

* 324,320 will be that distance from Westfield's St Lukes shopping centre.

* 220,500 will be within that distance of Botany Town Centre.