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April 11th, 2013 
Peter Nolan
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The Palmerston Mayor says a new shopping centre planned for the satellite city could be bigger than Darwin’s complex at Casuarina.
Ian Abbott says the Palmerston centre is planned for completion by Christmas next year, and will be built off Roystonea Avenue.
He says there will be 70 shops and 1500 car parks as part of the complex.
“Palmerston is geographically located certainly for both rural and Palmerston residents, for ongoing this growth, so this also gives the opportunity for more people in Palmerston to stay and shop,” Mr Abbott said.
Some locals were disappointed when efforts to convince Myer to drop plans to build its first Territory store at Casuarina, and set up in Palmerston instead, failed.
Mr Abbott says the final conception of Palmerston’s planned centre will be as big – or bigger – than the Top End’s main shopping centre at Casuarina.
“As you’re coming into Palmerston over the overpass of the Stuart Highway, as you’re coming down along Roystonea, it is on the left-hand side,” he said.
“It’s a large triangular block – that block is actually again larger than the Casuarina site.”
The Gateway centre is being proposed by the Coombes Property Group.
The NT Government says, if the application is successful, the total investment will be $300 million over all the stages, with hundreds of jobs in construction and in the complex.
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