Connecting People to the Sea and City
Welcome to the first Sea+City newsletter, designed to help keep you up to date with plans and projects happening within the Sea+City Project area in Wynyard Quarter.
This edition provides a quick overview of progress since the launch of the project in June 2007, key dates for your diary and contact information for the future. We intend to publish this newsletter on a regular basis and welcome your feedback toward creating an active, useful, reference tool for the future.
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Meet the SCPL team
SCPL includes a highly experienced management team which together contributes a range of specialist skills including portfolio, asset, property and project management expertise.
Pictured in the back row (left to right)
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John Gundesen - Communications Manager
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Rick Thompson - Property & Asset Manager
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Richard Whitburn - Company Secretary
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Ron Gorter - Assistant Development Manager
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Steve Borlase - Project Manager
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Matt Collis - Assistant to Project Director
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Richard Hiles-Smith - Development Manager
Pictured in the front row (left to right)
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Simon Lough - Planning & Design Manager
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John Dalzell - Project Director
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Richard Stilwell - Consultant (absent)
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Getting on with the job
The revitalisation of the Sea+City Project area is underway with a building consent application lodged with Auckland City Council to repair and strengthen North Wharf and Expressions of Interest sought from experienced contractors.
SCPL Project Director John Dalzell says meetings and workshops have been held with local tenants, including marine and fishing industry representatives, to discuss future plans and work through issues and concerns. These meetings are ongoing.
"Now the majority of our operational structures are in place we're concentrating on getting on with the job," he says. "The momentum is building and the first physical works in the area are expected to begin next year."
Mr Dalzell says the SCPL team now has a project office in Westhaven and will be inviting stakeholders and neighbours to learn more about the Sea+City Project as issues arise and the project develops.
 Te Wero: the challenge
Auckland City Council has announced four winning designs in its world-wide concept design competition for Te Wero Bridge, in which 155 entries were received.
The opening bridge will provide convenient pedestrian, cycling and passenger transport access from the CBD to the new marine events precinct and the redeveloped Jellicoe Street. The council aims to have the bridge completed in time for Rugby World Cup visitors in 2011.
Professor John Hunt, chair of the independent judging panel, says the four designs demonstrated both design innovation and potential technical feasibility to a standard that warranted their possible further development in Stage 2 of the bridge design process. The winners - Richard Naish and Rewi Thompson (from Auckland), Takeshi Hashimoto (Tokyo) and Roy Fleetwood (Wellington) each received NZ$2000 prize money and have now been invited to work with teams of technical experts to develop their concepts in Stage 2. The winner of the Stage 2 definitive design competition will be announced in April 2008.
Visit www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/waterfront to see the Stage 1 design concepts.
 Unitec photography project
Over the next 25 years the Sea+City Project area will change from its present industrial function into a population centre of commercial, cultural and social significance. Unitec photography students have been engaged in a long term documentation of these changes in partnership with SCPL.
The purpose of this partnership is threefold:
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To create a visual archive of the Sea+City Project as a legacy for future generations
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To provide photography students with photographic and financial opportunities to engage in "real world learning"
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To generate photographs for publicity, reports and documentation by SCPL.
It is proposed that the documentation takes the form of an annual competition. Additionally, one student will be awarded a contract to provide site progress photography of the development from fixed viewpoints over the following 12 months. This photography will be prescriptive and objective and will also be deposited in the public archive.
The project represents an opportunity for UNITEC staff and students to contribute to the visual history of Auckland and its peoples.
 Out and about
Sea+City Projects is committed to supporting events and festivals that encourage participants and visitors to our part of town. In September we were a sponsor of the second annual Auckland Seafood Festival at Sanfords Fish Market which attracted thousands of visitors over two days to sample local seafood, wine, music and cooking demonstrations.
We moved quickly to introduce the project to the thousands of runners and walkers in the 2007 Auckland Marathon in October: the marathon course was through the Sea+City Project area. We erected display boards at the marathon registration office in Halsey Street and our information brochures proved popular.
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Sea+City project diary
23 November 2007
EOIs for North Wharf remediation close
7 December 2007
Plan Change cross submissions close
Early 2008
New SCPL Board appointed
(Interim currently in place)
March 2008
North Wharf contract tendered
April 2008
Te Wero Bridge design finalist announced
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| Quick facts |
What is the Sea+City Project?
The Sea+City Project incorporates the staged revitalisation of 18.5 hectares of land formerly owned by Ports of Auckland to the west of the Viaduct. The first stage of the project will see a Gateway Entry Plaza established on the corner of Halsey Street and Jellicoe Street, the remediation of North Wharf and development of an entertainment and retail precinct along Jellicoe Street. Later stages will focus on remediating contaminated land within the area, building a major stormwater facility to serve the wider catchment and developing a major public space on Wynyard Point.
» More information, images and maps
Who owns the land within the Sea+City Project area?
The majority of land within the Sea+City Project area is owned by Auckland Regional Holdings (ARH), a statutory investment management entity and part of the ARC Group ( visit www.arh.co.nz). Public open space including roads, plazas and parks is owned by Auckland City Council. Auckland City Council also owns Halsey Street Extension Wharf, Wynyard Wharf and Te Wero Bridge. A 4.25 hectare headland public space on Wynyard Point is jointly owned by Auckland City Council and Auckland Regional Council.
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Where is Wynyard Quarter?
Wynyard Quarter is the area of land running from Fanshawe Street to the Harbour, with Halsey Street on its eastern side and Beaumont Street to the west.
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| Consultation update |
More than 600 people took the time to make a public submission to proposed changes to Auckland City Council’s District Plan and Auckland Regional Council’s Regional Coastal Plan. The Urban Design Framework prepared for Wynyard Quarter informs the proposed Plan Change.
Summaries of these submissions are now available from Auckland City Council and the ARC. Both parties have called for further submissions in support of, or in opposition to, original submissions by 7 December 2007.
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