The Castle Gate Lifestyle Centre is a modern retail hub located in Pretoria, South Africa. It encompasses a wide array of retail, dining, and service options, designed to serve as a central hub for the community.
Construction works on the retail project began in 2019.
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The initial phase of the shopping centre was unveiled to the public in November 2020 while the second phase was inaugurated in May 2024.
The project was developed by a joint venture (JV) between Atterbury Property Fund (APF) and The Carl Erasmus Trust.
APF is a collaboration between the property developer and investor Atterbury, its management, founders, and Talis Investment Partners.
The shopping centre is the first building block of the mixed-use Castle Gate Precinct being developed by the joint venture in Pretoria that typically combines residential, commercial, and recreational spaces within a single, integrated community.
The large-scale mixed-use precinct development project represents a significant investment of R6bn ($394.6m), which is expected to generate 20,000 permanent jobs.
Location
The Castle Gate Lifestyle Centre is located in the hub of Pretoria East on Koedoesnek Avenue, adjacent to Van Ryneveld Avenue and Solomon Mahlangu Drive.
It offers excellent access to the N1 and R21 highways and is a mere 25-minute drive from OR Tambo International Airport.
The centre is also well-connected to public transport and is just ten minutes from the Pretoria Gautrain Station and 15 minutes from the Pretoria central business district.
Castle Gate Lifestyle Centre details
The first phase of the retail centre, known as the Castle Gate shopping centre, encompasses a total area of 23,000m2.
Its design is reminiscent of a rustic, industrial farmhouse, with an emphasis on openness, simplicity and ease, offering a blend of convenient retail, restaurants, a dining piazza, and a children’s play area.
The second phase, Castle Gate Lifestyle was built across the road from the Castle Gate shopping centre.
It added a 24,000m2 retail space, enhancing the already popular shopping experience with a focus on home, hobbies, gardening, and interiors. The phase also added 1,078 new parking bays.
Castle Gate retailers
Castle Gate shopping centre hosts the latest store concepts from major retailers.
The anchor tenant, Kloppers, occupies 10,000m2 across the ground and first levels, followed by Food Lover’s Market occupying nearly 4,000m2 and Food Lover’s Cafe occupying 250m2.
Dial-a-Bed, and Weylandts are some other large tenants, occupying about 2,000m2 and 2,300m2, respectively.
Other significant tenants include Coricraft, Volpes, Woolworths, Checkers, Dis-Chem, and Builders Warehouse.
The centre offers a diverse array of dining options with more than a dozen restaurants, cafés, and fast-food outlets, including Fireroom, Cairo Kitchen, Rocomamas, Doppio Zero, Spur, Ocean Basket, Nando’s, Kauai, KFC, Starbucks, Krispy Kreme, Burger King, and delis such as Seemann’s and Castle Gate Deli.
The health and beauty sector is well-represented with establishments such as Wellness Warehouse, Sorbet, Spec-Savers, Gary Rom Hairdressing, Gary Rom Man, and Intercare medical consulting rooms.
Additional retailers include PNA, Crazy Store, Pick n Pay Clothing, Tasko Sweets, and Animal Affair.
The centre also features ATMs from Nedbank and FNB, as well as services from Levingers Dry Clean and Shoe Clinic. Tech enthusiasts can find the latest gadgets at Eden Tech, cellular deals and devices at MTN, and cell phone repairs at All Fix.
Sustainable features
The project incorporated eco-friendly initiatives in the development such as a 1MW solar farm and rainwater harvesting.
Rustic industrial design and green spaces are a few more sustainability efforts made in the project.
Castle Gate Precinct details
The Castle Gate Precinct will feature 115,000m² of office space, up to 90,000m² of residential space, including 1,300 residential units set in eight hectares of protected green areas with walking and running trails, 18,000m2 mixed-use business park and 20,000m² of medical facilities.
Atterbury finished constructing a new fully-let office building within the Castle Gate Precinct, in March 2022.
A new Planet Fitness gym, covering an area of 2,700m2, opened in February 2022. The gym is situated in one of the two wings of the new office building.
Contractors involved
The Castle Gate Lifestyle Centre is designed by Boogertman + Partners Architects, an architecture and planning company.
Norval Wentzel Steinberg, a quantity surveying company, ensured the project’s quality standards.
Graeme Page Consulting Engineers, a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning consulting design company, Streng Consulting Engineers, an engineering company, and Watson Mattheus Consulting Electrical Engineers, a consulting company, were the engineers in the project.
Regent Lighting Solutions supplied the lighting solutions for the project.
