Situated on bustling Palmyra Road, Palmyra Junction boasts a 1200 square metre Woolworths foodstore – their greenest to date  – as well as 18  other handpicked retail tenants chosen to cater for almost every  need.

These include scrumptious eateries from a Thai Café to a Knead Bakery  and a Vida e café.  The centre is set around an internal, open air  piazza enabling restaurant patrons to relax and enjoy the landscaped surroundings and mountain views.

Palmyra Junction offers convenient shopping hours, particularly for parents doing the school run.

Most  tenants are trading from 9am to 6pm Mondays to Saturdays and until 1pm on Sundays and public holidays.

Woolworths is trading longer hours from 8.30am until 8pm while Vida e and Knead Bakery are both open from 7am.  The Thai Café ,which caters for  lunch and dinner trade, opens at 11am until late.

The centre has 24 hour controlled access and CCTV coverage, and enjoys plentiful, free  parking with no less than 150 dedicated parking bays provided on site.

Rabie development manager Colin Anderson says it took eight years to assemble the site and get the necessary development rights in place.

“The Claremont area is under shopped in terms of convenience shopping as there simply have not been suitable, large enough sites available for development.  The existing shopping facilities in the area have thus been limited to strip shops or small redevelopments which all have parking limitations so Palmyra Junction really has a competitive advantage in that it is able to provide both convenience and destinational shopping.”

Anderson says the Woolworths Foodstore  had been designed to be the “greenest” of all Woolworths Foodstores countrywide. Green building measures under taken included the recycling of energy for the underfloor heating, a grey water system, natural light and  ventilation.

With a gross lettable area of 2200 square metres, Palmyra Junction  was developed at a cost of R50m by the Rabie Property Group on behalf of Insight and in response to strong market demand.

There are 10 multi functional studio spaces, ranging from 36 square metres to 110 square metres, above the shops which are now being released on the market for rental.

Ideally suited for entrepreneurs or professionals, many of these airy  studios offer double volume space, lots of natural light and creative configurations. A number also have balconies.

A few vacant shops are still available.