Virginia Black, Suffolk Park
Congratulations to Azzura Investments and Wingate Property who have sold Mercato for $120 million, they must be laughing all the way to the bank.
This building was always going to be a white elephant. Having a two-level supermarket is not convenient. It’s a known fact that shops and restaurants on an upper level do not do as well as those on street level.
The design of this building was wrong, and town planners at Byron Council should know these facts and not have allowed this disaster of a building to happen in the first place. This whole area could have been used in a more efficient way to include the shops that are still there. Not enough thought was given to this special area.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
