City Property to compete more obviously in the market (their excuse: PPP)

UPDATED POST June 11, 2012 at 5:53 pm

Read: DUNEDIN CITY COUNCIL LET’S MOVE TO PROTECT THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY JUST LIKE WE DID PROFESSIONAL RUGBY
(Side bar: Let’s replicate Dunedin’s central police station in Queens Gardens, and other such crocks)
(Question of the Day: Why is a council manager empowered to speak out ahead of councillors and the chief executive? Wethinks Dave Cull has a lot to do with this. Your turn to answer, Mr Cull)
(This is a bit like GM Tony Avery speaking out on council’s need to redesignate for SH88, without telling the whole story of gross council incompetence and the likely multi-million dollar cost to ratepayers)
(It’s what you don’t say)

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### ODT Online Sat, 9 Jun 2012
Council mulls public-private hotel plan
By Chris Morris
The Dunedin City Council is considering a public-private partnership that could result in a second new hotel being built in the central city.

Council seeks $15 million portfolio boost

The idea was among several being considered by the council’s city property department to increase the value of the $89 million investment property portfolio it will manage over the next few years. The proposal could result in a 60-room, three or four-star “boutique” hotel being constructed on the council’s Dowling St car park site, south of the Octagon, council city property manager Robert Clark confirmed. If approved, it would be built together with a multistorey parking building, with the estimated $15 million cost split between the council and an interested private developer, Mr Clark said. The council would build the car park and the developer the hotel, meaning the two parties would share costs and returns from the investment, Mr Clark said.

Various council departments were involved in discussing the project, but it was yet to be considered by the council’s property subcommittee – headed by Mayor Dave Cull – and would also need approval at a subsequent full council meeting.

Mr Clark said that could happen later this year, if a detailed analysis established a healthy return on investment was achievable.
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Phil’s eyes-wide-open look at City Property!
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Posted by Elizabeth Kerr

Development contributions

### ODT Online Tue, 8 Nov 2011
Development debate
By David Loughrey

Development contributions are fees levelled on property developers to pay for infrastructure required by subdivisions, such as water and wastewater, roads and reserves. Under proposed changes, developments placing additional demand on infrastructure could attract extra charges.

The Dunedin City Council will sit on November 22 to consider what Mayor Dave Cull said was a complex issue – a charge on developers opponents say could kill development in Dunedin. The council yesterday ended a three-day hearing on the issue that raised a host of legal and philosophical questions, and highlighted many areas where more work needed to be done.
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### ODT Online Tue, 8 Nov 2011
Heavyweight attack on plan
By David Loughrey

Lawyer Phil Page, for CIDA, Cranbrook Properties and Balmoral Investments, said there was a legal prohibition on “double dipping”, with the Forsyth Barr Stadium providing a good example. It was paid for through council company dividends, made up for by rates. It could not be charged for again through development contributions, something Mr Page said was “a key issue here”.

The group opposing a new charge on developers in Dunedin wheeled out its big guns yesterday, with a parade of lawyers, valuers, tax specialists, planners and builders to argue against the charge from every possible angle. The Construction Industry and Developers Association (CIDA), set up to oppose the draft development contributions policy, took up most of the third and final day of hearings on the issue.
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23.3.11 Dunedin City Council’s rock and its hard place

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Posted by Elizabeth Kerr

Naylor Love Construction centennial history

### ODT Online Sat, 25 Sep 2010
Builders of a city
By Mark Price
It is the architects who usually get the glory for Dunedin’s cityscape – Troup for the railway station, Lawson for the municipal chambers, Campbell for the courthouse, and so on. But beyond those famous names are two others that have endured through much of the building of Dunedin.

They are Naylor and Love – both small-time builders when they began 100 years ago but combined now as New Zealand’s fourth-largest construction company. Mark Price has been browsing the pasts of the two original Dunedin companies with Rosemarie Patterson, the author of Naylor Love Construction’s centennial history, A Bob Both Ways.
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www.naylorlove.co.nz

Post by Elizabeth Kerr

Ron Anderson: “It’s the most iconic stadium in New Zealand”

### ODT Online Sat, 8 May 2010
Firm revolutionised building industry
By John Lewis
“We started out with no clients and no income. All we had was a $200 typewriter and an office in the basement of a building in Clark St.” Arrow International Group Ltd’s beginnings in Dunedin 25 years ago were humble.
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Post by Elizabeth Kerr

Industry violins

D Scene told us this weeks ago…
Unfortunately, it’s another ‘Dunedin would’ve died’ story

### ODT Online Wed, 20 May 2009
Embattled builders rescued by stadium
By Ellie Constantine

Dunedin builders say Forsyth Barr Stadium is saving the city’s building industry, which is experiencing a downturn.
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### ODT Online Wed, 20/05/2009 – 9:22am.
Comment by murrayg on Apples with apples

Try comparing apples with apples. This is ratepayer money, keeping ratepayers in work, on an item which will make a permanent loss?
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