PROJECT FEATURE
BALLITO
JUNCTION
BALLITO JUNCTION
Ballito
OWNERS & DEVELOPMENT MANAGERS
Flanagan & Gerard
Menlyn Maine Investment Holdings
ARCHITECTS
MDS Architecture
Boogertman + Partners
QUANTITY SURVEYOR
NWS Quantity Surveyors
CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
L & S Consulting
ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
Rawlins Wales
MECHANICAL ENGINEER
Q-Mech Consulting Engineers
WET SERVICES
Sutherland Engineers
FIRE CONSULTANT
Specialised Fire Technology
TRAFFIC ENGINEER
Royal HaskoningDHV
TIME MANAGEMENT
Orion Project Managers
T
he new three-level Ballito Junction opened in March 2017. It has extended an
existing 12,000m 2 shopping centre, growing it by almost eight times its original
size while offering simple, uncluttered and calming aesthetics.
Ballito Junction is now a regional shopping centre which offers 80,000m 2 GLA. It was
designed by MDS Architecture in association with Boogertman + Partners Durban for
a consortium of Menlyn Maine Investment Holdings and Flanagan & Gerard Property
Development & Investment.
Sean Pearce, the partner at MDS Architecture who led the project, says that the
three-level centre posed a number of design challenges, particularly given that it needed
to tie in to an existing shopping centre, Ballito Junction.
“From Ballito Drive, you only see one level but the building is 35m high at the back
(the equivalent of around 6 storeys in height). The design pays homage to the ocean
and we have also been careful to design in such a way that guests experience a number
of inter-connecting spaces to layer their experience,” he explains.
In addition to the planned extension, the owners extended the mall further during the
construction phase in response to retailer demand. It now features six anchor retailers
and a diverse mix of over 200 shops, restaurants, and services. The anchor tenants are
Checkers, Woolworths, Edgars, Pick n Pay (existing), Game and Dis-Chem (existing).
Its location off the major N2 highway gives Ballito Junction ease of access from its
immediate vicinity as well as to its north and south, and even inland. It has dedicated
access around the traffic circles of Leonora Drive, off both Ballito Drive and Simbithi
Drive, as well as from Ballito Drive itself.
LIGHTING CONSULTANT
Pamboukian Lightdesign
LEASING AGENT
Flanagan & Gerard Property Consultants
MAIN CONTRACTOR
WBHO Construction
Entrances at Ballito Junction are
prominent and modern, featuring
massive off-shutter concrete walls
that are panelled to look like
weathered timber and lead visitors
to one of the three entrances
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Ballito Junction