Introducing to you the Carletonville Mall

The R330 million Carletonville Mall on Gauteng’s West Rand is set to open in October this year with more than 85 percent of the 25,500sqm mall spoken for.

Developer Bentel Group is now looking for local business people to take up franchise and other retail entrepreneurial opportunities in the balance of the space available in the new centre.

Situated in gold-rich Carletonville, the mall is on a prime site in Station Road, which has direct access to the R501 primary provincial road to Potchefstroom in North West Province. The mall is a small regional centre and will not only bring a quality shopping destination to the Carletonville community, but serve neighbouring Khutsong and the broader catchment area including Westonaria, Fochville and people travelling to Potchefstroom.

“Carletonville Mall is going to bring a whole new shopping experience to the local community, as well as draw shoppers from neighbouring towns and act as an interceptor to motorists travelling through the area,” says Selwyn Bentel, Director of the Bentel Group.

“With most of the space at Carletonville Mall already taken, we now want to secure and finalise franchise as well as mom and pop store opportunities to fill up the balance of the space. We are looking for passionate entrepreneurs that have the capacity to run quality operations through these smaller store opportunities. With the remaining franchise and mom and pop store opportunities available, we want to create a good and varied tenant mix at the mall.

“We find that these stores contribute to the uniqueness of a mall,bringing a local flavour to the mix and making the mall an integral part of the community who support it,” adds Bentel.

With a new railway bridge, road interchange and pedestrian access bridge being built near the new mall, access for shoppers is set to be significantly improved and travel time reduced. The mall will also have ample parking and a formal taxi drop off facility.

“We are also very excited about the extension of Grundling Street linking to the mall which will provide easy access for local residents of Carletonville as well as reducing the drive time for Fochville residents,” says Bentel.

Carletonville Mall is anticipated to have around 85 stores, restaurants and service outlets when it is complete and fully let. Confirmed anchor tenants include Pick n Pay, Choppies Supermarket, Woolworths and Cashbuild. Further national tenants include Truworths, Clicks, Identity, Exact, Mr Price, Sportscene, PEP, Tiger Wheel and Tyre and Lewis Furnishers, Joshua Dooreamongst others.

“The gold-mining town of Carletonville is famed for being one of the richest gold-producing areas in the world and is home to Western Deep, one of the world’s deepest mines. However, it does not have a quality shopping mall under a single roof. Retail in the town is fragmented and largely served by the CBD and a lot of buying power is escaping from the town to the detriment of our local entrepreneurs,” adds Bentel.

“Carletonville Mall’s development represents a major investment by Bentel Group, arguably the biggest private sector investment in the town outside its mainstay mining sector. Construction is continuing apace for the mall to be ready, with approximately 250 construction workers on site currently.

“Besides jobs during construction, many jobs opportunities will be created in all the retail stores and other outlets at the mall when it opens to the public in October (2015). As the Bentel Group, we are looking forward to the opening of this mall as I am sure the local community is too,” he says.

East Rand based Bentel Group is one of Gauteng’s leading privately-owned property investment and development companies. The Carletonville Mall development is one of several commercial property projects currently underway or on the drawing board for the group.

The Bentel Groupis led by the Bentel brothers, Selwyn and Aubrey, who have a number of well-known developments behind their name such as East Rand Retail Park in Boksburg, Retail Crossing on the West Rand, and the Dis-Chem Head Office and Distribution Centre in Midrand.

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