Murray Halberg village
Linda Jones village
BACK ON THE TOOLS AT OUR DEVELOPING VILLAGES Our construction teams have picked up their tools after the summer break to get back into building beautiful villages around New Zealand and Victoria. With work on 12 sites the construction teams are as busy as they have ever been. Project Manager of William Sanders in Auckland, Matt Bell, had an intense year in 2020, handing over the village centre, serviced apartment block and two blocks of independent apartments in quick succession.
Describing it as a ‘fantastic milestone’, Matt said: “It was a great way to round off a challenging year and I am very proud of our team.
“The feedback from the new residents moving in has been overwhelmingly positive.” They won’t be hanging up their hard hats just yet though, with three blocks still to build. At Murray Halberg, Project Manager Ross Duxfield and the team are focused on finishing the second half of Stage 4 in the first quarter of 2021, having handed over the first half of the block in November. The care centre has been open for over a year now and is currently home to 79 resthome, hospital and special care residents and 49 serviced apartment residents. Linda Jones village in Hamilton has had residents Ryman Times • 10
living in the first lot of townhouses since May 2019 and now has four apartment blocks and a beautiful village and aged care centre open. Project Manager Gary Cox now has his sights firmly focused on the next four apartment blocks and three more stages of townhouses.
There are no residents at Keith Park village yet, with the first two apartment blocks due to open later in the year. Ricky Ciobanu, Project Manager for the village in the west of Auckland, says work has also advanced on the village centre and preparations for other apartment blocks.
