John Bridgman: The Influencers
The construction of Te Pae, our new convention centre, is now 50 percent complete. It’s an exciting milestone that the sales team was recently able to share with event organisers from all around the globe at IMEX in Frankfurt, the world’s largest convention about where to hold a convention. Letting the world know Te […]
John Bridgman: The Influencers
‘Building places for people’ is Ōtākaro’s mantra and through this mild autumn it’s been satisfying seeing locals and visitors alike enjoying the public spaces we have created. We have been especially heartened by the public response to the new City Promenade, our conversion of two kilometres of Oxford Terrace from a conventional street into […]
John Bridgman: The Influencers
Construction of the Metro Sport Facility gets underway next month on the former Canterbury Brewery site. That’s good news regardless of whether you like to get active from the top of a 10-metre dive tower or the comfort of a spin bike. We recently awarded a $221m contract for the construction of what will […]
John Bridgman: The Influencers
We already have 65 events on the books for the first two years at Te Pae, Christchurch’s new convention and exhibition centre, but you will see the marketing and promotion of this facility go up another gear with AEG Ogden now in town to provide day to day management of the centre. AEG Ogden […]
The Influencers: John Bridgman
I hope you’ve taken the opportunity over summer to walk along the City Promenade which we completed and opened in November. The Promenade is a significant part of Te Papa Ōtākaro/Avon River Precinct but there are three outstanding pieces of work for us to carry out this year to complete this Anchor Project. The first […]
John Bridgman: The Influencers
For Ōtākaro, 2019 is going to be a year where we go up rather than out. Having opened the City Promenade, completed the bulk of the South Frame and finished almost all of our roading projects, we’re largely out of your way on the streets. So, you will be seeing activity ramp up on […]
John Bridgman: The Influencers
As we head into Christmas let me give you a few numbers on Ōtākaro’s projects that help illustrate how far we have come in Christchurch’s regeneration this year – 29,000 plants and 600,000 thousand pavers make up the City Promenade that now lines the Avon River; 97,000 hours went into repairing, widening and reprioritising Manchester […]
John Bridgman: The Influencers
It may only be 117 metres long, but the short stretch of road between the hospital and new Christchurch Outpatients facility, known as the Oxford Gap, is undergoing some major surgery of its own. When it opens towards the end of the year, the Gap will cater for a significant amount of traffic. Every […]
The Influencers: John Bridgman
On 25 November Ōtākaro will be holding the City Promenade Scavenger Hunt to mark our completion of this key feature of the wider Te Papa Ōtākaro/Avon River Precinct; $10,000 worth of prizes will be on offer from businesses along the promenade. By answering 10 simple questions about some of the features along the new […]
The Influencers Column: John Bridgman
Ōtākaro recently ran a series of walking tours around the central city as part of Explore Christchurch, a campaign to encourage locals to come and see what’s going on in town. With around 300 people joining us across the eight tours, the level of interest surpassed our expectations. At first glance, Te Pae Christchurch […]
