Wallington maze to make way for servo, retail, restaurants
A NEW $10 million service centre development is proposed for the Amaze’N Games site in Wallington.
Developer Riverlee submitted the project for town planning approval last week after owning the site for 15 years.
Riverlee development director David Lee said the service centre would include fuel, auxiliary retail and restaurants.
“There has been a shortage of service centres in that area for a very long time. We have been speaking to the council about this project tentatively for the last five to six months,” Mr Lee said.
“It just makes sense, there is a big gap between service stations and this is the most logical corner.”
Mr Lee said he did not have any real plans for the site after buying it in 2002. The sale price was $335,000, according to CoreLogic.
If approval is granted for the service centre, Amaze’N Games will close.
Mr Lee said the business had struggled over the past five to 10 years because Bellarine Adventure Golf was directly opposite.
“It is more of a commercial corner,” he said.
This will also be the first Australian service centre to receive the highest possible level of certification under the Urban Development Institute of Australia’s national EnviroDevelopment program.
Located at 1552-1570 Bellarine Highway, the proposed service station has been awarded for its outstanding performance across all six of the program’s sustainability elements — ecosystem, water, energy, materials, waste and community.
The development’s state-ofthe-art energy-efficient lighting automatically adjusts to minimise residual glare and complement the natural daylight and there are plans to replant 90 per cent of the local species of vegetation.