The Town Centre was officially opened on Friday, November 22.

And retailers are celebrating the opening of their unique new businesses in the heart of the Sovereign Hills community.

Chief executive officer of developer Lewis Land Group Chris Calvert said locals can now duck in for their groceries on the way home, enjoy a boutique burger and beer with mates, meet family and friends for a speciality coffee or a glass of wine and purchase beautiful homewares and gifts from Port Macquarie's vibrant new shopping destination.

Retailers, including the Hastings Co-op IGA, IGA Liquor, Home Timber and Hardware, Juice Box, The Hill, Brooklyn's Burger Bar Espresso, Triple Two (Home, People, Life), took the opportunity to showcase their beautiful fit-outs, products and delicious meal offering.

Your Discount Chemist will open in January 2020 followed by Southern Cross Austereo's regional media centre in April.

Mr Calvert said Lewis Land Group is very proud of Sovereign Place.

"We want to remain part of the community that we helped create," he said at the opening.

"Both Sovereign Hills and Sovereign Place Town Centre are very much consistent with our purpose as a business of creating exceptional communities where people live, shop, relax and work.

"This is also a place where we embrace the outdoors and enjoy our fantastic surrounds; we create space where people can gather," he said.

"We believe Sovereign Place is very much the heart and soul of this community. It is the key piece of infrastructure and will support the growing local community, meeting the needs of the wider Port Macquarie-Hastings and visitors."

Mr Calvert said the Town Centre will provide more choice, more convenience and more dining options.

It is a place where people connect, he said.

Hastings Co-operative Ltd CEO Alan Gordon said the new IGA outlet, which featured a creche, had set a new benchmark.

"It is an unbelievable finished product," he said. "This project is at another level and captures the latest trends.

"We are using local produce and providing things like a specialty line of meats in the butchery.

"Having a creche in a supermarket is a real winner for us too," he said.

"We have set the new benchmark for future development in this area."

Peter Harvey from the designers of the IGA, Supermarket Design Australia, said the newly created store mirrored the latest trends from Melbourne.

"The market (shoppers) are certainly asking for something different with their shopping experience," he said.

"IGA was wiling to embrace a lot of these new ideas.

"This store makes IGA more competitive and this design and layout makes it on par with the majors."

Port Macquarie's Kristy Charnock said she would become a regular shopper at Sovereign Place and the IGA.

"The entire complex is clean and inviting," she said.

"This is my first experience shopping her at Sovereign Place but I like the outlook and the centre is very easy to navigate."

In a further boost to the newly opened Sovereign Place, NRMA has officially unveiled two new electric vehicle fast charging stations.

The fast charger will allow most EV motorists to fully charge their cars in about 30 minutes.

Standard public EV chargers take between three and six hours, and traditional power outlets can take more than 12 hours.

NRMA executive general manager motoring Neil Payne said the Port Macquarie charger would help drive the next generation of motoring tourists to the region, improving mobility and contributing to the local tourism economy.

"We are proud to be further opening up the Mid-North Coast to EV motorists," he said.

"This charger continues our Pacific Highway route enabling connections to Nabiac and Grafton, eventually onwards to Sydney and Queensland.

"At the NRMA we know one of the key reasons motorists in Australia have been hesitant to purchase electric vehicles is because they are worried about "range anxiety:".

"That's why we re building this extensive network of chargers in towns like Port Macquarie to safeguard against that happening, and make sure regional areas don't get left behind because we know regional communities thrive when regional tourism thrives.

Mr Calvert said sustainability was a key consideration during the Sovereign Place Town Centre design and construction phase.

"We included off-mounted solar panels, reclaimed water usage, locally sourced timber arbors and recycled brick paving incorporated into the precinct," he said.

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