The agency also has a goal of actively working with 50 employers to get them to relocate to Christchurch during the next financial year – with the target growing to 60 in the year after, and 70 in the year after that.
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ChristchurchNZ chief executive Joanna Norris says the agency is talking to 50 businesses about relocating to Christchurch. Chief executive Joanna Norris said about 50 businesses were already in active discussions with the agency about relocating to Christchurch. “What our team do is seek to understand the needs of the company, what it is that would make Christchurch attractive to them, and then we make introductions to the right people,” she said.
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.
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