Property Management

High rise apartments limited to North Shore's CBD

High-rise living in North Shore looks set to be confined to Takapuna.

Thursday, December 11th 2003

The council's major projects team leader, Robert Andrews, says projects of the scale of the proposed 29-storey Sentinel apartments will be contained within certain sections of the Takapuna CBD.

Property developers Cornerstone Group last month announced plans to build what would be the Shore's tallest building on the site of Takapuna Village.

Nearly half of the 120 units, which start at $600,000, were sold even before resource consent was lodged.

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