Bring on the party !!!

Bring on the party down on Queens Wharf…this will be a once in a generation opportunity for Aucklanders and New Zealanders to celebrate on our waterfront and to break through the previously impenetrable Ports red fence to create a live site as created in the 2006 FIFA 2006 World Cup in Germany.

More New Zealanders will watch the World Cup rugby outside our stadiums than inside and we can’t imagine a better place to tell our story to the world.

The great thing about this location is the huge economic leverage that we get from it being right on the doorstep of our city.

It is a tantalising prospect and we say more power to the PM and his government and only hope that he can galvanise a collective political will here in Auckland.

The challenge in all of this is that we build something here that is useful beyond the RWC and, most important, that it’s architecture is befitting its prominent position on our waterfront. It must not be anything less than staggeringly good and something that New Zealanders and international tourists flock to long after the RWC extravaganza has left our shores.

Within this discussion the talk of a cruise ship terminal poses a real challenge – our preference would be for a multipurpose facility that transitions to a wider waterfront development in the future.

Alex Swney
CEO

ENDS

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