Banking on food business

This building – a former bank in central Orewa – is being refurbished inside to make way for two restaurant/hospitality tenants.


It appears that the owner of the former ASB Building on a prominent site on Hibiscus Coast Highway in Orewa town centre has pulled back on his initial plans to rebuild.

Last year, Hibiscus Matters revealed that the owner of 348 Hibiscus Coast Highway, Pamber Auckland (sole director Jonathan Rigg) had obtained resource consent in March 2017 to demolish the building to make way for a new, two-storey construction.

However, Auckland Council documents reveal that Council is processing two building consents for the site which detail an internal rebuild only.

One consent has already been issued for a new restaurant fit-out and the other, also for a restaurant fit-out, is currently being processed.