By Holly McGuinness
Warehouse bulk food giant Costco is confirmed it could be coming to the north west as a development application is now open for public comment with Brimbank council.
Brimbank council’s director of city development, Kelvin Walsh said the application was received in May 2022 and the store, if approved, will be located at 740 Ballarat Road, Ardeer.
“[The application is] for a restricted retail premises, construction of a service station and associated works, display of business identification signage and access alterations to Ballarat Road. Council understands that the occupier of the proposed development (if approved) would be Costco,” Mr Walsh said.
The project is estimated to cost $62.8 million and is designed to span across 14.68 acres which includes the store plan, service station, tyre centre, 20 bicycle spaces and 745 car parks.
The proposed design is similar in style to existing Costco stores across Australia with the same rectangular warehouse look to it with the store set out to be on one level.
Once complete, the store will be open 7 days a week, 8:30am to 8:30pm Monday to Friday, 9:30am to 6:30pm on Saturday and will be open 10am to 6pm on Sundays.
The service station is set to include 18 bowsers over an area of 4,300m2 and an accompanying building to include a point of sales system.
“The application is currently on public exhibition, as required by the Planning and Environment Act 1987. Application documents are available for viewing on Council’s website,
“Once the public notification period has concluded, Council officers will undertake a detailed assessment of the application, including considering any submissions received and all relevant decision guidelines within the Brimbank Planning Scheme,” Mr Walsh said.
