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Speaker 1: Good news on the events front. Well, unless you're Helling Clark,

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Speaker 1: I suppose living nearby Eden Park. The government's allowing them

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Speaker 1: to host twelve large and twenty medium sized concerts a year,

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Speaker 1: any day of the week, no need for a resource consent.

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Speaker 1: Currently they're only allowed twelve concerts a year total. Vivbek,

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Speaker 1: Heart of the City, good morning, good morning, Hey, before

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Speaker 1: we get to that great weekend over in Auckland. This

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Speaker 1: weekend wasn't it was sale gp.

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Speaker 2: We got great? Well? Oh the Valentine's Day cruise ship

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Speaker 2: in town, it was brilliant.

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Speaker 1: It was packed, wasn't it?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely yeah? Great?

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Speaker 1: So are we going to be packed again for more

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Speaker 1: nights and on more occasions with this announcement?

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Speaker 2: Well, look on, I haven't seen the detail, but it

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Speaker 2: does looked like good news for the central city. We

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Speaker 2: do benefit from major events, so yeah, I know it

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Speaker 2: looks like good news. I mean, I think back to

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Speaker 2: Metallica just before Christmas. That was absolutely brilliant. The fans

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Speaker 2: stayed around for days. I'm queuing around the block for

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Speaker 2: merchandise sales and the central city that was a really

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Speaker 2: great major events. So yes, no, it does look like

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Speaker 2: good news.

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Speaker 1: I went for a drive on Saturday night and just

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Speaker 1: to check out the city. And it was about nine o'clock.

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Speaker 1: At eight o'clock, nine o'clock, took my parents in law

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Speaker 1: run for a drive around Auckland and we're you know,

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Speaker 1: Viaduct pumping, Ponsonby Road pumping. It's all looking great. Restaurants

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Speaker 1: are full, bars are for k Road. Still a problem,

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Speaker 1: isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not our area, but so I wouldn't want

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Speaker 2: to speak for it, but that you know, you can

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Speaker 2: have a chat to them about that. But I think

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six from our perspective is a major turnaround.

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Speaker 2: As you know, we've talked many times we've had a

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Speaker 2: tough decade, but this is a year that we're anticipating

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Speaker 2: the begin around. We saw the conventions tend to open

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Speaker 2: last week. That's going to be a game changer for

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Speaker 2: that midtown area and really help us drive that growth

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Speaker 2: in the business events which are also a major driver

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Speaker 2: of economic value. They attract jobs, high v you, visitors,

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Speaker 2: international investment, and exposure. This is the big turnaround that

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Speaker 2: we've been waiting for and we're really excited about that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's good. And the city rail link to

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Speaker 1: all the stations are all.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a part of it, yeah, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, but leave it there. Thank you for beck Heart

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Speaker 1: of the City with us this morning.

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