Flexible owner offers spacious St Lukes complex with many potential uses

The warehouse and office complex at 19 Lyons Ave, St Lukes, can be used as a distribution and storage hub or film set. Photo / Supplied

A large St Lukes warehouse and office complex occupied previously by the Yellow Pages' Auckland office and Target Furniture, which used the warehouse as one of its main distribution and storage premises, is being offered for lease with multiple use options.

The property at 19 Lyons Ave is situated off the cul-de-sac end of the street, which extends in a southerly direction off St Lukes Rd.

"It is well suited to one tenant who wants a combined office and warehouse space or to two separate tenants," says Paul Rosenberg of Barfoot and Thompson Commercial, who is seeking new tenants for the space with colleague Tim Wilson.

"The owner has given clear instructions saying he is prepared to meet the market and will look at heavily reduced rentals for the warehouse at $60/sq m and at $100/sq m for the office," says Rosenberg. "However, these prices in no way reflect the quality of the property but merely the fact that a negotiable owner looks to meet the market head on."

The 3395sq m warehouse is high stud at 7.6m to the portal knee on the southern side, rising to 9m at the apex and reducing to 6.6m at the portal knee on the northern side. A fire sprinkler system has been installed throughout the complex.

Offices are carpeted and air conditioned with good natural lighting.

Partitioning provides open-plan office accommodation with two separately partitioned offices, a computer room and secure store room along the northern wall.

Occupying the western end is a spacious lunchroom with fittings including a laminate bench top with stainless steel sink inserts mounted on pre-finished custom wood units and a dishwasher recess. At the eastern end is a boardroom with adjacent male and female amenities. Access to the offices is by stairwell and lift.

"In addition to its obvious uses as a warehouse or distribution centre, it could also be suitable for the film industry as a set location," says Wilson.

"The facility on a Business 4 freehold site of 9629sq m has a 738sq m top-quality office and 98 car parks in a quiet, discreet location with quick access to the city's main arterial routes. There is the option of taking the office or warehouse individually, taking the whole lot or cutting the warehouse up into sections."

All normal city services are reticulated on the property on which the late 1980s industrial building has been divided into three tenancies, comprising two office tenancies and a warehouse tenancy.

Wilson says the property could be suitable for a bulk store, motor vehicle sales premises, storage facility, work rooms or a building improvements or hire centre.

"This office location would also be ideal for a language or education provider looking for a desirable and convenient location being situated among high-density residential dwellings."

The quiet and well-positioned location has also attracted interest from the film industry.

St Lukes shopping mall is about 500m south east of the property.