Ex-Batchelor Jordan Mauger's new multimillion-dollar film studio could be operational by early next year, offering work for up to 2000 people at its peak.
Mauger said not all the studios would be built at once. The site would be developed in stages as demand allowed. The first stage was likely to cost about $7m to $10m and once fully developed it would be a $100m facility that could eventually be responsible for 2000 jobs, Mauger said.
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Kirk Rd in Templeton on the outskirt of Christchurch is the site for a planned film studio complex, Temple Film Studio. Once up and running the studio was expected to inject millions of dollars into the Canterbury economy as the city looks to capitalise on New Zealand s reputation as a safe haven following the global Covid-19 pandemic.
But the council’s failure to bend the arc on rates rises down to a more palatable annual level of 2 to 3 per cent can be firmly sheeted home to its unwillingness to right-size the ship. You’ll recall that the council chief executive, Dawn Baxendale, sought to hose down last year’s concerns about the lack of rates relief as the pandemic hit, by talking a big game about her “root and branch” spending review. Expectations were high that the council’s new broom would drive robust change to the cost-plus mentality. But how many limbs have been lopped off?
Agencies in charge of regenerating Christchurch s red zone say good progress is being made but some are worried there s still no clear plan of action for the space.
Pathways, public facilities, landing sites and the restoration of ecological areas are proposed for the Ōtākaro Avon River Corridor.
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The Ōtākaro Avon River Corridor (OARC) red-zone is 600 hectares in size, about four times the size of Hagley Park or Auckland s Cornwall Park.
The red zone housed 9000 people before the Christchurch earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. If you walk through the area now it is mostly grass where houses once stood with their established gardens still intact.