A NANDO’S restaurant is set to open in the former Blockbuster video store at the Fiveways intersection in North Albury.
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Meanwhile, Albury chef Navish Kumar plans a new Indian restaurant in Dean Street.
Nando’s in Mate Street will be the Border’s first franchise restaurant for the South African-based chain, which specialises in Portuguese-style flame-grilled peri-peri chicken.
Albury Council has received a development application for a change of use from a video store to a restaurant and a U4 Coffee Shop, the latter to open for breakfasts.
Rocco and Maria Care are selling the property to the Andrews and Mutton families, with the development application in the names of Scott Andrews and Alan Mutton.
Sally Mutton and Yolanda Andrews will manage the restaurant with the help of up to eight casuals, the application states.
The video store closed in 2008 and failed to sell at auction that year, but agents L.J. Colquhoun Dixon last month erected a “sold’’ notice on the property.
Nando’s restaurants originated in South Africa in 1987 and the first Australian outlet opened in 1990, with more than 200 now open across the country.
There are Nando’s restaurants in Shepparton, Melbourne, Canberra and Bendigo but the North Albury restaurant would be the first in country NSW.
Nando’s restaurants are located in 27 other countries.
Little structural changes need to be made to the Blockbuster building but the applicants propose to create a landscaped outdoor dining area while maintaining a 21-space car park.
The restaurant hours are proposed to be from 10am to 10.30pm seven days a week.
Meanwhile, an Indian restaurant is proposed at 662 Dean Street in a property opposite the ambulance station.
Albury chef Navish Kumar and Gurpreet Singh have sought change of use from a medical supplies business to a 60-seat restaurant to be called Indian Chimney.
Both applications are open to public comment.