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Stark Property Developer Matt Stark told
Stuff the changes are “setting the city up to fail and stopping us from progressing any upgrades on other streets throughout Hamilton”. “We’re trying to do things on a shoestring budget and deliver something that’s an embarrassment from a design perspective.” Stark Property has been developing buildings in the CBD since 2011, creating spaces and designs that add value to the city.
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Developer Matt Stark is concerned the changes to Ward St is taking four steps in the wrong direction. Creating cycleways and walkable cities is great, it’s the execution that’s the problem, he said.
Waikato Regional Council is due to start moving into its new Hamilton CBD headquarters this weekend, with the doors opening to the public on Monday. The move as a tenant into the Tristram Precinct at 160 Ward Street will be staggered over three weeks .
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Stark Property s new inner-city precinct will be built in three stages. The complex’s final stage, far left, will be a multi-storey accommodation building featuring a rooftop garden. Developer Matt Stark said the name Tūāpapa is inspired by the site’s location at the base of a once-fertile hill, and also the build’s aspiration to enrich the life of the city. The complex’s second building will include office space and retail and hospitality offerings. A third building will feature public spaces and hospitality on the ground floor and six floors of accommodation above. “We’re really looking forward to starting Tūāpapa. There’s just a heck of a lot of great stuff that’s happening in Hamilton at the moment,” Stark said.