Plans for Phoenix Park to be revealed

A previous Phoenix Park concept.

The new concept plan for Mount Maunganui's Phoenix Park will be presented to key stakeholders at a council hosted breakfast meeting this morning.

Those invited to the revealing include nearby property owners, retailers from Mount Mainstreet and local iwi and hapu.

The invitation list is limited because space in the twin towers conference room is limited, say council staff.

Construction of the $2 million project is expected to take place during the winter of 2017 according to the agenda of the September Monitoring Committee meeting.

LandLAB Landscape Architects and Urban Designers are contracted to complete a revised concept design and associated design work necessary for the construction of the Park.

The revised design was expected to be completed in September, but has yet to publicly surface.

Tauranga city council adopted the revised plan in September, after resolving concerns raised by Mount Maunganui retailers about the loss of 55 parking spaces entailed in converting the carpark into an urban park.

Following discussions 44 alternative carpark spaces have been finalized; 12 spaces for the May Street Carpark and 32 spaces at Nikau Crescent.

Replacement carpark spaces proposed for Oceanview Road are no longer proceeding and alternative locations are being investigated.

At the Council meeting held on September 29, 2016 the city council approved the design of the park and replacement car parking for the Phoenix Park Development prior to proceeding.

A report on the proposed design for Phoenix Park and the replacement car parking will be taken to Council for consideration in early 2017.

LandLAB is also involved in the design of the Tauranga waterfront redevelopment.

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3 comments

TCC had an excellent option at NO cost to ratepayers

Posted on 12-10-2016 10:18 | By Murray.Guy

Auckland based urban designers that are apparently better at capturing a local flavour, design element? Many would not know BUT we has had an excellent public/private partnership deal to develop Phoenix Carpark that included a three level car park building on site with more parks, coupled with new offices and shops AND retained the palms. ALL at NO additional ratepayer DEBT or cost other than the usual on-going costs. Was also the option to pedestrianize the adjacent section of Maunganui Rd, no fumes with your food! Incoming Mayor Greg Brownless, I'd put money on it, will be totally unaware of this opportunity. It was also identified that the DIFs being used could have purchased the ZESPRI freehold sire for reserve.


PARKING AND COST ISSUES

Posted on 12-10-2016 15:22 | By ROCCO

This proposal looks to address neither issue and seems to be the usual windowdressing and associated spin -$2m for what exactly it does not look good and does not represent bang for your buck.Stop it now.


golly gosh

Posted on 12-10-2016 16:41 | By old trucker

ME thougt it was going to be left as carpark, how much did this CONCEPT cost,why doesnt TCC pull down old FIRE STATION and put a park in there


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