{"id":239483,"date":"2018-04-22T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=239483"},"modified":"2018-04-22T07:07:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T05:07:16","slug":"south-african-shopping-centres-will-slowly-start-to-ditch-their-massive-parking-garages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/239483\/south-african-shopping-centres-will-slowly-start-to-ditch-their-massive-parking-garages\/","title":{"rendered":"South African shopping centres will slowly start to ditch their massive parking garages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone familiar with the retail shopping experience in South Africa will know the nightmare of the shopping parkade.<\/p>\n

As more shopping centres spring<\/a> <\/strong>up around the country however, developers are starting to question the feasibility of these structures – especially because of the costs and space that they take up.<\/p>\n

Speaking to BusinessTech,\u00a0Sean Paul executive director of Spire Property Management explained that while the shift is still along way away, its an issue that is increasingly being considered -especially in the country’s dense urban areas.<\/p>\n

“We have been involved in developing in dense residential nodes for a number of years, and these types of shopping centres are already quite restrictive,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We were recently involved in the development of the Cape Quarter<\/a><\/strong> lifestyle village in Green Point, and because of the logistics involved we had to go six or seven levels down to provide a hundred parking spaces. It’s something that is very expensive and very difficult to do,” he said.<\/p>\n

However, despite the expenses and time involved, Paul believes that a greater push could come from an increasing demand that shopping centres and developments are ‘green-certified’.<\/p>\n

“When you think of a building that has been awarded green certification you think of it as a building that is only energy efficient.<\/p>\n

“However accessibility to public transport and self-propelled transport such as bicycles are also a major consideration before receiving your certification,” he said.<\/p>\n

Again, Paul said that this shift to green developments will be expensive, and he noted that there will always be space for self-driving customers – but he highlighted that this is something that more tenants are actively calling for.<\/p>\n

“Parking at the moment is not unviable, and you can still make a fair amount of money from the people that pay, but its something that will\u00a0 become more unsustainable and unnecessary as new infrastructure is developed,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Bicycles, buses and Uber will ultimately be the primary mode of transport when visiting shopping centres in South Africa – as is the case internationally.<\/p>\n

“How long it takes I don’t know, but that is definitely the direction we are heading in.”<\/p>\n

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