BendigoWeekly www.bendigoweekly.com.au
ISSUE 845 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2013
ALL ABOARD: Santa with Danica and Darius Pender. Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN
Tram ride on Santa’s special Fancy a special trip? Now is your chance to ride on Santa’s tram, but only until Christmas Eve. The trip departs from the Central Deborah Gold Mine. Book now on 5443 8255.
SHAKE UP EXCLUSIVE
By CHRISTINE McGINN
FAST food giant McDonald’s is setting up another store in Bendigo. The McDonald’s brothers opened their first restaurant in California in the 1950s, and the company has lodged plans to build a new restaurant in California Gully. The fast food giant is planning to
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set up a $1 million, 24 hour, sevenday-a-week shop on Eaglehawk Road, next to Fitzpatrick’s Home Hardware. The building, on land once occupied by the Stafford Ellinson factory, will be 110 square metres and include a McCafe. The restaurant will accommodate 107 patrons with 32 carparks.
More than 10 additional car parks can be added in stage two if needed. The entire 3182m2 site will also house a drive through, two waiting bay carparks and six bicycle spaces. At least 90 full and part-time jobs will also be created. The artist impression design swaps McDonalds’ traditional col-
ours for a streamline black, red and white facade on the north-west side of the property. “The proposed Convenience Restaurant use and development is generally considered to contribute to the local prosperity and economic wellbeing of the site’s locality and the Greater Bendigo municipality,” the
planning report stated. Council also requires surface and storm water detention to be provided to ensure the local drainage system is not flooded. The environment overlay blankets the site while the opposite side of the road is protected with a Heritage Overlay. The site is opposite the main California Gully shops, including the Whitehorse Hotel and Eliades fish and chip shop.
We wish our readers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We will be back on January 3, 2014
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