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Speaker 1: In a state of almost bewilderment. We seem interested in

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Speaker 1: what the Auckland City Council thinks about a stadium they've

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Speaker 1: got no real say over. But yesterday they voted to

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Speaker 1: endorse the redevelopment of eden Park as opposed to a

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Speaker 1: new facility on the waterfront. The next step in what

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Speaker 1: is an astonishingly long go nowhere kind of process is

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Speaker 1: what happens next? Does the government get involved? Eden Park's

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Speaker 1: thet Sortner is with us.

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Speaker 2: Nick morning, Good morning Mike, and thanks for your time.

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Speaker 1: No, not at all. We had Martin Snedden on the

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Speaker 1: program yesterday. We were talking about the redevelopment of eden

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Speaker 1: Park back in twenty eleven. So twenty fifteen, nothing really

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Speaker 1: has happened. Do you think you'll be alive when someone

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Speaker 1: makes a decision.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'd like to think so, And yesterday we welcome

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Speaker 2: the decision and acknowledge the staff that to participating in

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Speaker 2: a process for over two years it was originally intended

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Speaker 2: to take three months, took two years. Our strategy and

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Speaker 2: purposes being to demonstrate that our hybrid multi purpose stadium

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Speaker 2: and adapted for a use of Eden Park, is the

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Speaker 2: only solution for Auckland and New Zealand's National Stadium.

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Speaker 1: If they do or tick something off, what happens to

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Speaker 1: the facility that you can't do now.

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Speaker 2: So for us, the critical element is to demonstrate that

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Speaker 2: increase utilization is part and parcel of stadium economics and

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Speaker 2: with the opening of the CRL we'll see a pipeline

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Speaker 2: of potential and for us it's to unlock a lot

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Speaker 2: of the potential that's there. So we're currently under a

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Speaker 2: number of constraints. We've got ninety seven percent support from

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Speaker 2: the community. So part of this process has been able

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Speaker 2: to demonstrate that we have got the support of the

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Speaker 2: community and local businesses. We understand the economic benefits of

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Speaker 2: major events and we've got a proven track record the

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Speaker 2: last five years. We've seen seventy percent of our revenue

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Speaker 2: and activity not being part of our business model only

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Speaker 2: five years ago, and we know we need to evolve

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Speaker 2: and this is just the next step.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any sense at all of whether the

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Speaker 1: central government is remotely interested.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm very confident in the conversations that we can

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Speaker 2: have and we're not looking for new money. What we're

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Speaker 2: looking for is for government to be more efficient with

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Speaker 2: existing money. And with the pipeline of content including the

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Speaker 2: Cricket World Cup in twenty two twenty eight, this is

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Speaker 2: once in a lifetime opportunity to actually draw a line

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Speaker 2: in the sand and make a decision adaptive re use

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Speaker 2: of Eden Park with a staged approach. The first stage

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Speaker 2: been one hundred and ten million. I understand that everyone's

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Speaker 2: doing it tough, but I'm confident there is opportunities for

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Speaker 2: savings and reinvestment in our national stadium.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Thank nice to talk to your next sup.

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Speaker 1: Not eaton Parks CEO nine.

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