1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:04,200 Speaker 1: Eden Park is the got the votes from Ugland Council 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: this evening. If you're just joining us, as happened in 3 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 1: the last fifteen minutes, lots of people are texting in 4 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: about the stadium and there's a lot of interest in it. 5 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: And it's not just from people who are in Aukland, 6 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: it's some people all over the country. Because the eden 7 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 1: Park two point one means that we'll all taxpayers have 8 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: to throw in one hundred million dollars. Ryan, the stadium 9 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: better have a roof for that price. 10 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 2: Ryan. 11 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: The seats that a lot of people asking about the seats. 12 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 1: Are they going to be soft or will we be 13 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 1: stuck with the hard ones? These are the important questions 14 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: and we're going to put them right now at twenty 15 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: three minutes away from six to Nick Sautner, who's the 16 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 1: chief excative at eden Park. That good evening. 17 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:45,560 Speaker 2: Good evening, Ryan, and thanks for your time. 18 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 1: How are you feeling about the vote? 19 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 2: Well, I've had a number of staff they can't take 20 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 2: the smile of their face. You can imagine that there's 21 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 2: been over two years of work. This process started. Who 22 00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 2: was going to take three months, It's been two years. 23 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 2: We've invested over a mints million dollars in our business case, 24 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 2: our planning associated with it, but also during that time 25 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 2: delivered some more memorable moments for our national stadium. 26 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 1: Do you think this actually settles the debate because we've 27 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 1: been here, you know, we've been to places like this before, am. 28 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 2: We Well, it's one of those things that I've worked 29 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 2: in stadium economics and stateium management for twenty five years 30 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:23,919 Speaker 2: and everyone has an opinion. You can only look across 31 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 2: the ditch at Brisbane and we had a Premier of 32 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 2: the state go to an election saying he wasn't going 33 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 2: to build a stadium and two days ago here now 34 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:33,759 Speaker 2: it's building a four billion dollar stadium for the Olympics. 35 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:37,480 Speaker 2: So there's always going to be a motion associated with it. 36 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 2: But that's one of the things that we harnets here. 37 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 2: We've had one hundred and twenty five years of history 38 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 2: and tradition, We've had some of New Zealand's most memorable 39 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 2: sporting moments. Now with our entertainment content and this decision today, 40 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 2: it is a special day in our history. It's taken 41 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 2: seven years of work with a number of the councilors 42 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 2: who supported Eden Park. Today when we approach them funding. 43 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 2: During Phil Goss when he was Mayor of Auckland, they 44 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 2: didn't support it. They have now changed their perception. We 45 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 2: put forward a case around a staged approach and it 46 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 2: was unanimously supported Nick. 47 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,799 Speaker 1: But just because they've supported and backed Eden Part two 48 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: point one doesn't mean that they have said how much 49 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: they might support you financially right. In fact, that was 50 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 1: one of the problems they had the council staff had 51 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: earlier in the week, so can you tell us exactly 52 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 1: how much you want from council and how much you 53 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: want from government. 54 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:33,359 Speaker 2: So one of the conversations prior or one of the 55 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,519 Speaker 2: agenda items prior to the conversation around the stadium was 56 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 2: about an investment strategy across the network. Currently Mount Smart 57 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 2: and then Western Springs and North Harbor Stadium get significant 58 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 2: funding from Auckland Council and the conversation and that agenda 59 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 2: item talked about looking at it at a strategic level 60 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,360 Speaker 2: across the assets in the city and what's best for 61 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 2: the city. And we look forward and welcome the opportunity 62 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 2: to talk with counselor around where they could best invest 63 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 2: that money. Noting the SARAH opens next year will be 64 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 2: seven minutes from town. We are a hydrid multi person 65 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 2: It all shown next week. 66 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:10,960 Speaker 1: Little that Nick, But how much do you want? 67 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 2: So in the first stage of the one hundred and ten 68 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,120 Speaker 2: million we are able to demonstrate with the business case, 69 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 2: with the pipeline of content, whether it be the Indian 70 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:20,679 Speaker 2: cricket series in twenty twenty. 71 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 1: Six, No, no, I get all that. But is that 72 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: a one off one hundred and ten million or is 73 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: that that's correct? 74 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 2: Right? 75 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:25,360 Speaker 1: That's great? 76 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 2: One on the further stages that we're put forward would 77 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 2: be funded by a private public partnership, but we need 78 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 2: the foundations and the Stage one guarantees that that holds 79 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 2: cricket and rugby. 80 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: Cricket and rugby. So that's what we're getting for one 81 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 1: hundred and ten million. In terms of what we will 82 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: actually see when we go to the stadium for one 83 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: hundred and ten million dollars the initial stage, what will 84 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: it look like. 85 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 2: That's different, It'll be transformational. The North stand will have 86 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 2: a retractable stand that will bring you within twelve meters 87 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 2: of the rugby field and will extend out the boundary 88 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 2: for cricket to seven four meters, So it then becomes 89 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 2: both Test match compliant and short book short form cricket. 90 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 2: So it's a hybrid, multi purpose solution for a country 91 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 2: of five million people in a city of one point 92 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 2: seven million people. That doesn't necessarily mean that those facilities 93 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 2: won't then be adopted. In increasing the capacity for concerts 94 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 2: to seventy thousand, that is a game changer for us 95 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 2: in terms of competing against venues on the East Coast 96 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 2: of Australia when we're looking to attract the likes of 97 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 2: each Year and or Taylor Swift, or indeed the artists 98 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 2: that we've had in the last three years. 99 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 1: Nick, I appreciate your time. I know you and your 100 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 1: team will be very happy with that result. I appreciate 101 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: you coming on the program, Nix Sautner, who's the teach 102 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 1: executive at Eden Park. 103 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,480 Speaker 2: For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to 104 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:46,119 Speaker 2: news talks. 105 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast 106 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: on iHeartRadio.