Bayleys corporate leasing agent Matt Gordon and commercial agent Cameron Melhuish are inviting offers on a pretty sweet investment in Sale Street on the edge of the Victoria Quarter.
The character building (it has a Grade A seismic rating, says Melhuish) is leased to Clooney’s, one of only four three hat restaurants in last year’s Cuisine Good Food Guide, the top award in the country. The restaurant is on a long term lease, and the two levels of modern offices above also have leases in place.
But the crowning glory is over 330 sq m of penthouse apartment, a rare find in this corner of Auckland where groovy creative businesses mix with the restaurants and bars in the heritage warehouses around the former gas works. The penthouse has potential to be renovated into something really cool – the wood floors, high ceilings, contemporary kitchen are all there. Add in five en-suited bedrooms, two living spaces and decking that’s begging for Brooklyn-style roof-top gardens and entertaining, with views up to Ponsonby and across to Victoria Park. Three's even a wee glimpse of the harbour.
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If Clooney’s is too rich every day of the week, there are always the quaint pubs up and down the road – The Birdcage in one direction, the bars of Drake Street in the other, City Works Depot just up the hill - or a supermarket around the corner for heat and eat.
Live above Auckland’s top restaurant.
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Moving deeper into Ponsonby Road gets you the ideal combination of live-work-play living in the heart of Auckland’s favourite suburb. Sachin Mistry and Murray Tomlinson of Barfoot &Thompson’s Royal Oak commercial/industrial division have a choice mix of four apartments and two shops for sale – but not just any old shop. 129 – 131 Ponsonby Road includes the iconic Bhana Brothers fruit and flower shop, every one’s favourite. You’re right across the road from SPQR and Ponsonby Central, and the area’s top fashion retailers.
Mistry says that the original building houses six rooms, with bathroom, toilets and kitchens that could be configured as an apartment or office space. The modern back of the turn of the century property was added some 20 to 25 years ago and includes a ground floor carpark for four cars, a first floor two bedroomed apartment and two second and third floor duplexes. The upper floors have three bedrooms and two bathrooms, with great views across the Freemans Bay valley to the city and Sky Tower. You couldn’t be better sited in the beating heart of Ponsonby.
Live and work in the heart of Ponsonby
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At the other end of Ponsonby Road, Blair Haddow and Jono King of Bayleys have a gorgeous piece of modern city design at 14 Crummer Road, Grey Lynn. Commissioned from architect Nick Molloy in 2004, the New York-in-Grey Lynn apartment in glass, concrete and steel was ahead of its time.
The property includes a striking street-level office and garage behind mesh doors, but then opens into resort-style family living: there’s a three level home over 650 sq m, with courtyard gardens, a swimming pool and views to the city and Sky Tower to the east, the Waitakere Ranges to the west. Mixed use living has grown up around the apartment – there’s the Vinegar Lane complex across the road, supermarkets, shopping and even more restaurants than ever.
The house has housed a family of four kids, but would also make un-matchable high end AirBnB (the six bedrooms and four bathrooms are spread over two wings, linked by a bridge over the atrium), and has another rarity in the inner city, a ton of basement storage.
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