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Major Australasian retailer Kmart has become the largest tenant of Tainui’s Ruakura Superhub with the opening of its new 40,000 sqm North Island distribution centre.
Tainui Group Holdings chair, Hinerangi Raumati said the opening shows after four years of intensive development and construction the 92ha first stage of the 490ha superhub is ready for business.
She says the project provided certainty of work for many dozens of trades and sub-trades through the pandemic recovery period and there’s been strong interest from Waikato-Tainui members and the local community in the more than 100 new jobs at Kmart.
The 9 hectare Kmart facility replaces an existing site in Wiri, South Auckland and includes warehousing, distribution, storage, a container yard, and office facility.
Last month, TGH marked the first goods trains to call at the adjacent 9ha Ruakura Inland Port, which offers seamless rail connections to the Port of Tauranga and MetroPort in Auckland.
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