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Date: 1979 Client: Sanlam Type: Offices with shops to street Status: Extant   Click to view large map Coordinates: 33°55'21.89" S 18°25'23.53" E Alt: 20m

The excavations for the Golden Acre uncovered ruins of the Wagenaar water tank (constructed in 1663), which are now on display behind glass in the underground shopping centre. The location of the building marks the original shoreline, before the Table Bay Foreshore Reclamation was started the 1930s. It is situated on the site where Cape Town's second railway station was built. The Golden Acre is built over a large shopping centre, and is linked by a network of underground shopping concourses to the current Cape Town railway station, the Southern Sun Cape Sun Hotel and the Felix (the old Picbell Parkade) in Strand Street.