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Negative Dunedin
Submitted by lewee on Sat, 06/10/2012 - 10:39am.
A city that was built on the toil of those who came here from far and
wide to make for themselves a better life, with the desire to create a
city that served all its citizens, young and elderly. The same 'Whinge
Crew' of negative people who constantly put forward their views that
Dunedin must not, at any cost, look towards the future and enter the
21st century.
We need to invest in large projects and take into account the huge
spin offs for local businesses and job opportunities for the many
business interests that will be involved. It is a fact that this city lacks
accomodation for major events. I say stop thinking small, and I for
one applaud the project and suggest you look at the cities around the
world and see that buildings above three storeys tall are really quite
normal. I am a ''senior'' and Dunedin is where I live. This city has
provided me with many stunning experiences and I say open your
eyes and embrace the new as the old is really getting tired. I fully
support this venture and am 100% behind that word ''progress''.
The video for this project clearly illustrates nearly all of it's failings.
We begin by flying around the beautiful low rise city of Victorian and
Edwardian structures, nothing more than 5 storeys high until- What
The-? Someone has dropped a giant featureless box by the water. 28
storeys? Seriously? Let's ask the dead of Christchurch about the
wisdom of skyscrapers on jelly land.
But, we must admit, this building is magical! For the first half of the
video it is see-through. That's great, that means it won't ruin anyone's
view and also as the video shows, won't cast shadows. Technology
eh?
Learn from Auckland's mistakes. Up north we bought into this stupidity
a couple of times. You lot are smarter than us. Now, prove it.
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Eyesore
Submitted by carolyn townsley on Sun, 13/05/2012 - 6:05pm.
Tourist economics
Submitted by MikeStk on Sun, 18/08/2013 - 12:34pm.
Lynden: I too am largely against the hotel because of its design - but I
believe that an economic argument can be made against foreign
funding a giant hotel (be it Chinese or Aussie or Kilngon) at this
particular moment.We have a low hotel occupancy rate - a foreign
owned hotel will take it's profits out of the existing economy and spend
them elsewhere, while some of the existing hotels are locally owned
and spend their profits here. Because we have a very low occupancy
rate in the existing hotels the new hotel will naturally take some of
their business. The result will be a lowering of the percentage of
tourist profit that remains in the economy - our overall standard of
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Lewee:
Geoff Houtman
Pukeko
Steve Rodgers
Carolyn Townsley
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