Renovation Works on Regal Building End this Month

The renovation work on Suva’s Regal building is expected to be completed by the end of this month.

Regal building is part of the Damodar Group property portfolio.

It is an iconic building on Victoria Parade.

It was for many years from the 1960s to the 1990s one of the most popular cinemas in the city and many Suva residents have wonderful memories of it.

The Regal was also the first cinema that Damodar Cinemas started their operations in.

Source

According to our source, who spoke on condition of not being identified, the Regal building underwent a major refurbishment from October last year.

This former-cinema building has been converted into a two-storey retail building.

New escalators, aircon units installed.

Refurbishment, Building Features

A major refurbishment of the building was designed by Larsen Holtom Maybin (LHM) Architects.

Area

The refurbished building now offers a gross floor area of: ground floor 570 sqm, first floor 605 sqm and Total Gross Floor Area 1,175 sqm

The major refurbishments works undertaken were:

• New 1st floor level with loading capacity designed for white goods, furniture retailer
• New escalators installed, new  goods hoist installed at rear (1 tonne)
• New energy-efficient VRV Air Conditioning system installed
• New flooring with new ceramic tiles, New shopfronts.
• Entire roof replaced with new cyclone-rated roof
• Entire building exteriors repainted with heritage façade retained

Building opening

The source stated that the opening of the building would be announced once everything is finalised.

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