10 | DEVELOPMENT Street & Cook Construction: Laneway Apartments Kelly Deeks Laneway development raises the bar The six-storey Laneway Apartments in the central city on Christchurch’s Tuam Street, due for completion mid-December. Phone: 03 983 5500 waterfordpress.co.nz Find new clients with regular marketing in print media ADVERTISING IS GREAT FOR BUSINESS A series of exciting projects has New Plymouth’s Street and Cook Construction now firmly established in Christchurch’s commercial construction market, with its second own development, the six-storey Laneway Apartments in the central city on Tuam Street, due for completion mid-December. Street and Cook Construction is a long established firm with more than forty years in the industry, substantial knowledge in commercial and residential construction, and considerable expertise in overcoming logistical challenges in the safest, most economical, and time efficient way possible. The company first came to Christchurch in 2014 to take on the Garden City Helicopters Aviation Centre project, and the team sent down for that project from company headquarters in New Plymouth enjoyed Christchurch so much, they wanted to stay. Street and Cook Construction South Island director Brad Shotter moved his family down, saying Christchurch has a good vibe, a can-do attitude, and brilliant subcontractors. Following the success of the Garden City Helicopters Aviation Centre project, which took out a gold award in the health category of the New Zealand Commercial Project Awards, Street and Cook Construction set up its Christchurch division and bought the already consented Latimer Central Apartments project on Barbadoes Street from another developer, and started building after some adjustments to the design. “The Latimer Central project went really well, and we had really good subcontractors, suppliers, consultants, and real estate agents around us, and that gave us the confidence to do another one,” Brad says. “We engage the right people to get the results.” The Laneway Apartments had a similar start with Street and Cook Construction buying a ready to build project with consented drawings, and after upgrading the quality and fitout to the same standard as Latimer Central, Street and Cook Construction started building on the tight, central city site. “Barbadoes Street was five levels, and this is six levels, so its the same methodology that we have to get right on site. Getting the structure up was a huge milestone and a big highlight for everyone involved. By the time we got to the third floor, we were building a new floor every 10 days, and we were all really proud of that. Having our team in here making that process so refined, it was a real win for the team and for the project.” Brad and Street and Cook Construction founding director, John Street, are impressed with the emerging architecture in Christchurch’s CBD, and say this Laneway apartments building brings something completely different again. “There are no new buildings we’ve seen that are even close to looking like these apartments.” Its six levels are staggered at one end of the building, with a 60sqm communal roof-top balcony on the fifth level, dropping down to another huge 109sqm communal balcony on the third level. Brad and John love this feature and the views they capture across the Port Hills and the city. Street and Cook Construction has fitted out these balconies with several planter boxes, and built bar leaners and dinner tables for true communal spaces to be enjoyed by residents. Inside the building, one and two bedroom apartments range from 51sqm to 76sqm and include generous deck spaces, some as big as 40sqm. Each apartment has a different size and layout from the last. Brad, John, and the Street and Cook Construction team have focused on delivering a good quality job for all of the buyers, and feedback so far has been really positive. “It’s a different building in the city, there’s nothing else quite like it.” Strong enquiry suggests there is a healthy demand for apartments within the CBD, and the Laneway couldn’t be better situated, adjacent to the Justice Precinct and Riverside Market, and close to the hospital and bus exchange.
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