Four new tenants on four corners of the WestSide precinct... and while it's too early to share all the names just yet... do a walk by and you'll see the fitouts start to take shape. We already love the locations, their neighbours and enough to spot their vision.
They fill gaps that WestSide had in restaurant dining... and complement demand for some of our highest volume beauty, wellbeing and tech services. Let's say what we can now:
Fine cuts for men, expanding into Hastings after building up a real following at their Napier shops. Big Boss runs locations in Napier (Clive Square + Taradale) and across Auckland... Rosedale, Howick, Takanini, Westgate, Chapel Road... eight branches across the country and Hastings makes nine. They're sitting next to Anna's Beauty Lounge, which keeps the grooming corner of the 300 block tight: men's barber one door, women's beauty the next.
A double-footprint restaurant moving into the corner near the 300 Laneway. The seating capacity is generous... this is a place built for after-work crowds, end-of-day plates, the kind of evening trade Hastings has been waiting for. They're sitting opposite Knit World and Lili Beauty, which means a steady stream of foot traffic from the moment the doors open. Watch the windows.
For the OG WestSiders, 337 West will look familiar... this used to be Madelaine's Cafe back in the day. The new tenant has inherited a working kitchen and the hedged outdoor seating that always made this address feel a little tucked-away and grown-up. Their neighbours are the cultural anchors of the upper 300 block: MusicWorks, Hustle, and The Line gallery. The triangle just got a fourth side.
A baby shop pulling up stakes from EastSide and moving across the centre to 205 West. The reason is the foot traffic... this corner sits opposite Countdown, in the direct line of sight of every Hastings shopper coming through the central pedestrian flow. They're voting with their feet for what WestSide can offer the small shop: sunlight, sightlines, and customers walking past on the way to do their groceries.
Every neighbourhood needs anchors... the businesses that hold the centre while everything else moves around them. Grieves Diamond Jewellers has been doing exactly that on Heretaunga Street West for decades. Family-run, generation-spanning, and quietly iconic. When you measure the strength of a precinct, you measure it by who stays... and Grieves has stayed. The two empty shops either side of them won't stay empty for long.
P.S.... two of the strongest spots on the strip are still up for grabs.
221 and 234 West are both north-facing, sun-flooded, and sitting directly next door to Grieves Jewellers... one of the longest-standing tenants on Heretaunga Street West. The 200 block puts them at the centre of WestSide trading: shoppers arriving from Countdown, working their way west through fashion and food. If you've been waiting for the right address, this is the kind of company you want to be keeping.
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North-facing. Sun-flooded. Right next to Grieves Jewellers in the 200 block. Get the full pitch on the WestSide spaces page.