Comments on: Queens Wharf Will Now Sort The Mayors From The Boys

By: Jeremy Harris

Jeremy Harris — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:15:28 +0000

Me too James…

By: James

James — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:36:06 +0000

I like Hamish Keith’s idea – spiegeltents – http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3615/artsbooks/13851/spiegeltent_splendours.html;jsessionid=1730A0DEA6E4DE6BCB084A17AAE062C9

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:16:04 +0000

If the Queens Wharf project is to be a marketing exercise, then give it an appropriate budget for crying out loud. $80m is a joke. Telecom spends more than that on marketing in a single year, and that’s a non-capital expense against income that doesn’t even begin to approach the annual income that tourism brings to NZ.
Either fund it appropriately, or stop pretending that the advertising opportunity presented by RWC2011 is a justification.

By: BA

BA — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:07:38 +0000

Auckland cant manage to organise a piss up in a brewery, and this whole debacle is a testament of this.

By: Sam F

Sam F — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:57:19 +0000

A good result I think – now hopefully once the RWC is over we’ll still have a relatively empty wharf to develop *properly* – not just an ugly, built-to-a-price events centre with a couple of retro booze barns (smelling faintly of banana) in the middle.