Business digest: Tauranga s Bayfair Shopping Centre wins in accessibility awards
20 Dec, 2020 10:01 PM
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Bay of Plenty Times
For the fourth year in a row, Bayfair Shopping Centre has been awarded for having the most inclusive business practices in 2019/2020. The shopping centre also took out the New Build-Commercial category 2019/2020 for its development at the Tauranga City Accessibility Awards.
Bayfair Shopping Centre has promoted social responsibility through a strategy to become more accessible by incorporating core values in all its social events and initiatives.
The goal is to raise awareness of accessibility issues within the wider community.
As part of its $115 million development project, the centre took the opportunity to install a fire evacuation visual alert system throughout the centre, mount Braille wayfinding signage across all amenities and update the store directory to include Braille for people with hearing and visual impa