What does $15m get you... A bus lane and spruced-up Wachner Place?
“Certainly I would not be agreeing to any landscaping - personally myself - that had a $15m price tag. I just think that’s way too much. I would claw it back.”
Just before 2000, the Invercargill community united to raise about $10 million. What that got us was a new indoor stadium - Stadium Southland.
Six years later $11m was pulled together to build New Zealand’s first indoor velodrome in the city.
Just last week the Invercargill City Council voted in favour of putting a bus lane through Wachner Place and giving the area a general spruce up.
The tentative cost for that? About $15m.
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