Every now and then a group of central city property owners stand up and clear their collective throats. This happened again on Saturday in the Press. A group of grim-faced people demanding that their opinions be considered more important than other submitters. Because they are rich. One of this … [Read more...]
Garry writes on the Stadium
In this missive I share my thoughts on, if I was still at the Council table, what questions would I have over how to vote on the Stadium. It’s always pleased me when people in Christchurch are arguing about an issue. It means they are engaged. This is healthy. When such a significant issue as … [Read more...]
Progress report on the Christchurch arena:
In Conclusion 27 Aug 2021
This is especially for the Council “team” who collapsed in the public scrum and gave into the Rugby Union recently. Here is a photo of the last test between the All Blacks and Australia two weekends ago. The black bits are people in the audience. The rest are empty seats. The reason? Two tests … [Read more...]
The stadium decision last week was just straight dumb
I know I’ll be unpopular criticising the Council decision to make a public facility larger last week. I feel the same about the crazy decision about expanding the size of the multi-purpose arena as I did about the size of Te Pae, the Convention Centre. It’s all about scale. Te Pae is way too big for … [Read more...]
The multi-use arena:
There’s a political campaign in place, by a small group, to put more seats at the multi-use arena. I thought I would give my experiences of going through the paces of building an arena. Christchurch has had the experience, and heartbreak, of building a new arena in the past few years. We built … [Read more...]
Let’s get in behind saving the Ng building
Just before we were about to send this off, we received this https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/petitions/document/PET_108167/petition-of-roland-logan-save-the-heritage-ng-building We will write about this building and the struggle which Roland Logan has put up to resist the destruction of one of … [Read more...]
Last week on New Stadium pitch
What a doozy of a session it was last week. Firstly, we heard from George Shaw with his dream of a Street Art Central site in the Salt district, giving Christchurch a chance to share his collection of Banksy art (the largest in the Southern hemisphere) with the world. This was a creative man who has … [Read more...]