This is fantastic news. Eastgate shopping centre will reopen on the 26th of July having been shut by the devastating February 22 Earthquake.
Countdown and The Warehouse have both opened in recent months, adding a little bit of normality into our quake ravaged lives. The reopening of the rest of the mall will be the finishing touch. I cannot wait to go back to the mall, I can't believe how much I have missed it, then again you don't really appreciate something until it's gone.
The centre is smaller now. Many shops will not be back immediately, as they needed to be demolished. In the short term a car park has been made on the site where they once stood. How many years it will be until they rebuild those shops is anyone's guess. I reckon we'll be looking at four or five years at least.
This blog was inactive at the time of the quakes, so nothing in the past before the reboot dealt with what we went through. Getting these shops back is a ray of sunshine bleeding into the darkness of a very long, cold winter.
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