Tauranga Mainstreet is attempting to discover what is missing from Tauranga's CBD by approaching its members with just one question.
The question is: If you could have anything you wanted in Tauranga CBD what would be your top five priorities?
Tauranga Mainstreet spokesperson Sally Cooke says with the restructuring of Mainstreet and the new marketing and management structure under Tuscany, it is a prime opportunity for the board to review how Mainstreet markets itself.
'The board thought it would be a great opportunity for us to go to our members and ask them, and assess their views on what they would really like to see in the city centre.
'That, along with some other strategic work we have been doing, will allow us to see what the general feeling is in terms of what are the top five priorities from Mainstreet members.”
The survey is only open to Mainstreet members at this stage.
To gage what the general public thinks, SunLive approached members of the community to see what they would like to see in the CBD.
10 comments
top five
Posted on 11-10-2013 13:33 | By Environmental education
1. Better public transport. Can be funded by stopping hidden subsidies to cars. Instead of businesses having to provide car parks for a resource consent, they could pay a far cheaper levy towards public transport if they preferred. 2. More businesses coming to the central city. This could be encouraged by 1 above. 3. Residential property in the CBD. Would encourage more people, like it does in Wellington. 4. Encouraging more events, like the alcohol free summer fest that contribute to diversity. 5. Pedestrian areas. Make the city for people not cars.
CBD for people!
Posted on 11-10-2013 13:37 | By The author of this comment has been removed.
Less cars. The Strand and Devonport road sectioned off after 9am till ???. A people friendly environment to walk, sit, eat with no noisy, smelly, cars/trucks. Could be tried out with the ubiquitous cones initially, for summer. I'd visit!
A Waterfront to be proud of
Posted on 11-10-2013 13:46 | By DanTGA
We have the biggest opportunity in front of us that is currently a car-park. CBD's around the world are hospitality hotspots. Why cant the council parter with private investors, and develop our waterfront. We could have Cafe's, restaurants and bars with stunning views over the water. I would also like to see the council not shut the carpark building on public holidays, this is one of the biggest shopping days of the year, and you can never find a park!
cobbles and humps
Posted on 11-10-2013 14:37 | By hapukafin
a good start would be to get rid of uneven ankle breaking cobbles and the suspenion breaking humps in the road ,they are the worse thing for air shocks.
In the CBD
Posted on 11-10-2013 15:43 | By Aster
Let's take a leaf out of Wellington's wonderful waterfront, and put some $$$ and effort into creating those wonderful spaces for art, craft, and people.We have one of the most sterile and feeble waterfronts I have seen - even Timaru's leaves us for dead. Remove cars from the Strand they can be sent up to Willow Street and then to Grey St. Also remove that ghastly bus depot from lower Willow Street, and make the inner CBD a safe place for all to be
Fishermans wharf
Posted on 11-10-2013 16:21 | By jed
Copy san franciscos fishermans wharf and make use of sun -- our cbd is a cold draughty shady place in the afternoon with nowhere to enjoy a beer looking over the waterfront.....check the viaduct in auckland which has nailed the sun and restaurant scene -- but, with some retail too. But the railway must go first.
CBD the peoples place
Posted on 11-10-2013 16:32 | By Starling
A great place to shop with a good variety of privately operated business. Make full use of the open public places, by encouraging atists of all types. Ban international activist etc from hassleing shoppers. Improve public and private transport signage. Keep up and improve on the good work of promoting and using the waterfront.
Wow!!!
Posted on 11-10-2013 16:56 | By Sambo Returns
great comments people, and basically what I proposed years ago for the waterfront and the C.B.D, and look where we are now, a 1/2 arsed waterfront and a dead C.B.D, but wait did not 2/3 weeks ago, Mr Parkes from our esteemed council at the time!!!, say the decision to reduce parking costs from $3.00 to $2.00 was from information gathered from C.B.D businesses, go figure, it will require people like ones who have made comments here, to drive this forward, imagine, a pulsing C.B.D and waterfront, a commercial slipway, and we can become a ocean orientated city.
City Hall
Posted on 11-10-2013 17:41 | By Plonker
get rid of it and most of the monkeys inside the glass box there. That will shift the economic space to somewhere commercial and productive, problem solved. PS having glorified waterfronts, artz feasts and Museum-lights created and switched on with ratepayer money will not fix anything and in fact will occupy good spaces and resources and waste them as only TCC knows how to do ...
Free Parking
Posted on 11-10-2013 20:31 | By tjs01
Its the only way I will stop going to Bayfair. I prefer strolling and shopping in real shops but I will not pay for parking
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