Waikato Business News April/May 2019

BLACK & ORANGE - PARKHAVEN
WAIKATO BUSINESS NEWS April/May 2019
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The Black & Orange Team (from left to right):
Mitch Mace, Jonathan Brown, Blair Currie,
Sam Simpson and David Hutchinson’.
Quality new building makes
statement in central city
In a word, quality. That is what defines
Parkhaven in its setting on Hamilton’s
Tristram Street and is at the core of what
developers Black & Orange are all about.
Parkhaven is also quickly
becoming a landmark
building for its size and
scale, a $14.5 million development
that is a vote of confidence
in Hamilton’s CBD.
The new five-storey, mixeduse
apartment, commercial
and retail building is now
fully occupied apart from one
tenancy on the ground floor
where work is nearly complete.
A quality end product was
important to Black & Orange,
who saw room in the market
for a high-end product.
Director Blair Currie says
they could see mixed-use
was working well around the
world. “We loved the idea of
creating a vibrant, exciting
community in the heart of the
CBD. Great design will bring
the people back to the city.
We know this, the research
is clear. Worldwide examples
back this up. For this development
to work, the quality of
the final product had to push
Hamilton’s limits.”
It was a risky move:
Parkhaven was the first development
for Black & Orange.
“We were the new kid on the
block,” says director Mitch
Mace. “It was our first development
and we were doing
something of a reasonable
scale, trying to get people to
give us the attention was the
first challenge. A lot of people
were concerned: is this project
the real deal? Apartments in
Hamilton off the plan was certainly
a challenge. But as soon
as we started getting steel out
of the ground, we were up and
running.”
The attention to quality
includes extensive use
of glazing, with plenty of
sunlight pouring into the 21
apartments and commercial
spaces, and views to go with
it. Acoustic treatment and
performance throughout the
building is at least 15 percent
above the minimum industry
standard, internal garaging for
the penthouses, covered carparking
for apartment owners
and a total of 96 parking
spaces, substantially more
than required by the district
plan, were all included as part
of the development.
As important as quality is
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