It would be nice if a cache could survive here, wouldn't it?
Potter's Park must be one of Auckland's busiest park with a host of facilities for the family to enjoy including a splashpad, playground, playing fields and mature trees. Across from the park is the Balmoral shopping area, now known as a hotspot of some of the best chinese food in the city.
Much of the character of the Balmoral shopping centre was established by the succession of buildings constructed during the 1920s. The tram line reached as far as Herbert Road just to the north of the Balmoral Road intersection by 1908. Commercial development started around 1910 when the first shop, operated by Alexander Spiers Thorburn, a confectioner and dairyman, opened between Balmoral Road and Rocklands Ave. By 1912 the shopping centre had expanded with a baker, grocer, chemist and drapers. As the residential population in surrounding streets steadily increased in the 1920s a major period of built development occurred to provide for local needs. This included a range of retail buildings, a post office and the Capitol Theatre, which is still running as a cinema.
Potter's Park in the 1960s
Look across the street from the geocache towards the intersection. You are looking at the site where in 1968 Super Value opened a supermarket. Described as Auckland’s latest mall type of shopping complex, it included a supermarket and other specialty shops and was served by a large car park. This later became a Woolworths store as part of a redeveloped Parklands Shopping Centre, and in 1991 the site became another branch of The Warehouse. The branch closed in 2014 and a resource consent has been granted that would allow the site to be redeveloped into a two-building, 7130 square metre complex including a new branch of The Warehouse, 34 apartments, and 234 car parking spaces.
For the cache, you're looking for a camoflaged microvial, you'll probably want tweezers to extract the cache. Please replace as found and take a quick look to see if it blends into its surroundings. It would be a good idea to bring your own pen as there is not one in the cache and I wouldn't bother bringing swag as it won't fit in the cache, sorry.