$40-45 Million Soccer Specific Stadium - Petone Phoenix

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about 12 years ago

This is a job for a Feverite if ever I saw one:

Fan Development and Digital Manager

• Newly created role
• Fan development and engagement
• Online/digital marketing focus

Westpac Stadium is New Zealand’s most exciting and successful multi-purpose sports and entertainment venue, located in the heart of Wellington City.

With a full event calendar and the construction of a brand new and totally unique mezzanine lounge, there is a great deal to be excited about at Westpac Stadium. To ensure that they are well positioned to capitalise on these significant opportunities, this new, strategic and exciting role has been established.

Reporting to the Sales and Marketing Manager, the Fan Development and Digital Manager is responsible for overseeing the fan experience at Westpac Stadium. You will manage and grow the Stadium’s digital assets and online communities as well as enhancing the Stadium’s reputation and fan experience through community programmes and event day activities.

You will manage, analyse and report on all fan correspondence, manage all social media activities and grow the Stadium’s social media platforms. You will also develop and produce a monthly Stadium e-newsletter and work collaboratively with hirers to grow attendance at events.

With the foundations already in place, this is a fantastic opportunity to grow the role, stamp your mark and make a real impact! The role would suit someone with at least three years’ experience in marketing and communications, strong digital and writing skills, loads of initiative and a relentless customer focus.

To view a full position description, please refer to our website mclaren.co.nz or contact Nikki Walshaw for a confidential discussion.

Applications close: 5.00pm Monday, 7 April 2014
Contact: Nikki Walshaw
Reference: 6740N

P: 04 499 1069
E: mcla@mclaren.co.nz
W: mclaren.co.nz

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Smithy wrote:

Westpac Stadium is New Zealand’s most exciting and successful multi-purpose sports and entertainment venue, located in the heart of Wellington City.

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Are they having a laugh????

[quote=Smithy]

With a full event calendar and the construction of a brand new and totally unique mezzanine lounge, there is a great deal to be excited about at Westpac Stadium.

Good, some bands are coming to play, something to get excited about!

A dog with a bone :)

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nightz wrote:

Smithy wrote:

Westpac Stadium is New Zealand’s most exciting and successful multi-purpose sports and entertainment venue, located in the heart of Wellington City.

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Are they having a laugh????

[quote=Smithy]

With a full event calendar and the construction of a brand new and totally unique mezzanine lounge, there is a great deal to be excited about at Westpac Stadium.

Good, some bands are coming to play, something to get excited about!

Quoted for ... I don't even know

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about 12 years ago

I think you guys/gals are a bunch of football crackheads. Well, actually, I know you are ;)

Watching the recent Barca-City game on TV - at least half of their stadium seats (half tier 2 and all tier 3) would probably be further away than most seats at the RoF? But I guess the atmosphere of a full 96 thousand seat stadium and watching Barca might make up for that.

Can you guys organise colour coded dress, ordered by seat like this pic. Please, please. ;)

http://media1.fcbarcelona.com/media/asset_publics/resources/000/072/631/original/SP_POST_CLASSIC_ENG.v1383042024.jpg

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about 12 years ago

when fans do that it's usually the club that leaves t-shirts on seats I think?

that was certainly the way when arsenal have done it a few times

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cheers paulm

aspirational goal

full RoF with colour coded dudes in seated message spelling "Fark Muscat, Who's dP" and beating Sydney FC in the A League final 7-0

(preceeded by a full season of sold out Petone stadium)

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about 12 years ago

mjp2 wrote:

I think you guys/gals are a bunch of football crackheads. Well, actually, I know you are ;)

I went to the Nou Camp many years ago (8pm kick off on the night of my wife's birthday - she stayed at the hotel) and my ticket was in the 4th tier. It was so high everyone had to duck when airplanes flew over. 3 people died on the ascent to their seats.

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about 12 years ago

K8nd of like the old Millard stand then.... only warmer and less rust

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about 12 years ago

@mjp2 you'd be surprised how well you can see at nou camp. I went to the Barcelona v AC Milan game there this season and sat halfway up tier 2, and it felt WAY closer to the action than nix games do. The combination of square stadium and next to no pitchside space completely changes the atmosphere, like you're right there with the players. Was a bloody awesome experience tbh.

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about 12 years ago

To be fair if Barcelona v AC Milan at Nou Camp dpes not excite you it is time to take a long walk of a short pier.

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Merran Bakker wrote:

Hi everyone

After a lively public meeting last Monday evening, we had a good public attendance at the City Council meeting on Tuesday. Thanks to all who attended. A handful of people appeared to speak in favour of the stadium proposal and a bigger group against, but in the end the Mayor’s resolution was carried unanimously. It was that the Council:

1) Agrees to consult on this proposal through a special consultative procedure as part of the draft annual plan, noting that if this project was to proceed there would be consequential 1% increase in rates per annum, above the CPI increase, over the 3 years commencing 1 July 2016, the $25 million investment would change the Council's debt, and the amendments to the rates and debt targets in the Councils Financial Strategy will be part of the consultation.

2) request officers undertake a more detailed investigation and feasibility in to the proposal including assessing the CFT fundraising plan before any decision is made in June 2014

Some things to note about this are:

·The annual rates increase will be 1% each year for the 3 years (so for an average ratepayer this means you’ll be paying an extra $60 per annum as a subsidy to the Phoenix/the stadium)

·The consultation includes the questionnaire that comes out in April 15’s Hutt News and it will be important to fill this out so the Council knows what you think. Responses will be due by May 16.

·The feasibility/investigation will be happening between now and June, so we may not know its outcome before we need to make our submissions on the Annual Plan

To get the Council to change its mind will need a lot of responses to the Annual Plan questionnaire. With that in mind, The Petone Planning Action Group (PPAG) will hold a public meeting on Monday May 5, at Petone Baptist Church, Buick Street at 7.30pm where you can come and get information about the process of responding as well as information about other planning matters affecting our area. It will also be helpful if you can talk to friends and contacts all through the Hutt Valley, raising concerns about extra debt for a stadium we don’t want in Petone.

In the meantime, PPAG is holding a fundraising screening of the movie “Cuban Fury” at Petone Light House cinema on Monday 7th April at 8pm. If you’re interested in tickets ($20 per person), please contact me on 9706350 or by email at this address; or Pam Hanna:clannad@clear.net.nz . We’d love you to join us.

Regards,

Merran Bakker

Phone (04) 970 6350

Email: bakker@paradise.net.nz

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I swear I remember 1% equating to a $20 per annum rates increase, not $60.

EDIT: Yep, straight from the report

On average a 1% adjustment for the average Hutt City ratepayer is

approximately $20 per year

If I were cynical I'd suggest that is a deliberate typo in the message above.

And to say that money would be a subsidy to the phoenix is just the sort of typical bs that has been bandied around by that lot.

Allegedly

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almost 12 years ago

A self selecting survey is bad enough, with an organised opposition it is even worse.

#urgh

No major policy should be based on such poor survey methodology.

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A guy called Alan Waller has absolutely spammed the nimby facebook page in the last week with examples of $700million stadiums around the world going over budget. And a lot of other completely irrelevant articles.

The funniest was a 2006 article on the Vector Arena failing. So I posted one from 2007 that hails the Vector Arena as one of the worlds best venues.

I give up.

Allegedly

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almost 12 years ago

they had me at Cuban Fury.

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almost 12 years ago

Tegal wrote:

I swear I remember 1% equating to a $20 per annum rates increase, not $60.

EDIT: Yep, straight from the report

On average a 1% adjustment for the average Hutt City ratepayer is

approximately $20 per year

If I were cynical I'd suggest that is a deliberate typo in the message above.

And to say that money would be a subsidy to the phoenix is just the sort of typical bs that has been bandied around by that lot.

I think they are trying to say it is 1% increase per year (for 3 years), so $20 more in 2016, $40 more in 2017 & $60 more in 2018. Didn't see that in the documents though.

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almost 12 years ago

Even $60 a year is only $5 a month. Can you even get a McD's happy meal for that these days?

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More write-up in the Hutt News this week covering the meetings that were held, and generally the complaints.

On the issue of rates, I am curious where they pulled the average $20 figure out of, because I doubt for most ratepayers that's realistic. The quoted 1% figure is also extra on top of the standard rates increases - which are already looking around 2-3%.

Considering the Council is already looking at a big spend up on other improvements, I expect the total rates increases to be a well discussed topic.

Worth pointing out also that Council is looking to increase total debt, as I am fairly certain the CFT report mentioned delaying other spending to help fund the $25M.

If the Council had said it was considering delaying other projects like Fraser Park Sportsville, Walter Nash, or fixing the Town Halls, then that's potentially a whole new set of people that could be objecting to the stadium.

Also good to see they're being creative with the traffic issues. I am not sure Mitre 10 Mega in Petone is a perfect solution, but it might be enough combined with other options.

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almost 12 years ago

hlmphil wrote:

dairyflat wrote:

Re that rail line. The line did go near there. It closed some time back. It was a spur line that accessed Seaview and the railway workshops. IIRC.
Wish it was open as it would lighten the load on Petone Esplanade. (One quote - 10,000 trucks and light vehicle movements a day along it now.)

Pretty sure that rail is still working though isn't it? The Kiwi Rail mechanical base is down there.

As far as I can tell. It's from Woburn Station to the workshops only. Anyone able to confirm?

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almost 12 years ago

Good work team, still think most of the objections are pretty weak so with a bit of local engagement this can go through. Keep the pressure on!

Normo's coming home

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almost 12 years ago

They maybe weak but their are plenty of them. Throw in talk of rates increases and those who have no interest in sport let alone football are likely to add to the growing numbers in the against camp.

At present councils accross nz are facing increasing scrutiny of every dollar they spend to the point rhe councillors dont even get a muffin at meetings nowadays.

The loss of greenspace traffic parking etc will all be secondary in the minds of many compared to Ray Wallace and Gareth Morgan putting there hands into the wallets of ratepayers however small that increase seems

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almost 12 years ago

Also have Hutt residents that remember paying for the white elephant of a car parking building, and want to avoid doing similar with a stadium.

The Woburn rail siding only goes to the rail workshops now, most of the rest to Seaview was ripped up. Though interestingly, there is apparently still an old platform for when they used to run passenger services to the back of Hutt Park for the race days.

But Hutt Park is never going to be an option. It would end up like Robina Stadium in the Gold Coast.

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almost 12 years ago

Now we're an AFL side. From the letters page of this week's Hutt News.

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almost 12 years ago

Might want to rethink that rectangular stadium then...

Allegedly

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almost 12 years ago

Ard Righ wrote:

Also have Hutt residents that remember paying for the white elephant of a car parking building, and want to avoid doing similar with a stadium.

But Hutt Park is never going to be an option. It would end up like Robina Stadium in the Gold Coast.

Unless you are John Terris the former Mayor of Lower Hutt...

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p.s. https://www.facebook.com/groups/PetoneStadiumYesorNo/ with the actual question being here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/PetoneStadiumYesorNo/permalink/234851346702597/?qa_ref=qd

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John Terris still living in the 1980s it seems...

"And only fell out of favour once the tv racing channel was established"

Um...like how sky sports is established for football?

Allegedly

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almost 12 years ago

dairyflat wrote:

p.s. https://www.facebook.com/groups/PetoneStadiumYesorNo/ with the actual question being here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/PetoneStadiumYesorNo/permalink/234851346702597/?qa_ref=qd

I'm not sure what she's trying to prove with that? How is it in any way meant to be representative of what Hutt Valley ratepayers think? For a start, anyone anywhere in the world could vote on it. Secondly, you have to know it exists before you vote, which clearly skews it towards people she is friends. Thirdly, you actually have to be on Facebook to vote. Fourthly, surveys where people have to choose to participate always skew in favour of people who care enough to make the effort to vote, but that doesn't mean they are reflective of the general mood of the population you want to sample.

I'd like to see the results of a properly designed randomised survey completed in the Hutt Valley about this though.

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almost 12 years ago

John Terris is a number of years out of date - all the facilities mentioned are long gone. He's also forgetting the choice and taste in entertainment is a lot more sophisticated than what it used to be at horse track "in it's heyday".

I think Robina Stadium provides a good example of building a great stadium in the wrong location. And it's a great place to watch football too, for those who like to sit right next to the sideline.

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almost 12 years ago

Tegal wrote:

John Terris still living in the 1980s it seems...

"And only fell out of favour once the tv racing channel was established"

Um...like how sky sports is established for football?

He's referring to Trackside, not Sky... Hutt Park died (as a trots venue) for many reasons - television was certainly a contributing factor but there were many others.

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almost 12 years ago

Ard Righ wrote:

I think Robina Stadium provides a good example of building a great stadium in the wrong location. And it's a great place to watch football too, for those who like to sit right next to the sideline.

I actually think he makes an interesting point by accident. It may be that current spectator tastes are for a surrounding precinct of bars and so on, but tastes change over time. It's worth at least trying to think 20 years into the future about what people might want.

North Harbour Stadium is another example of a good stadium in a ridiculous place.

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almost 12 years ago

I don't think North Harbour is really that good though. It's like a quarter of a good stadium and the rest is just too open to generate a good atmosphere. Definitely a stupid location though

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almost 12 years ago

Smithy wrote:

Ard Righ wrote:

I think Robina Stadium provides a good example of building a great stadium in the wrong location. And it's a great place to watch football too, for those who like to sit right next to the sideline.

North Harbour Stadium is another example of a good stadium in a ridiculous place.

While North Harbour was certainly in a seemed to be in a stupid place when it opened in 1997, when it was basically half way to Whangarei, it is in terms of its location becoming less so. Commercial activities and residential growth in the area since it was built has been astronmical and to the North seems to be the area of Aucklands greatest growth.

Probably the major impediment to its success remains the poor public transport options and the lack of suitable parking for those who do take cars as the motorway links are as close as they are to the R.o.F.

It will never be the major Auckland stadium and will always be a "second tier stadium", but who knows, if Auckland ever sort their shit out Transport wise and if growth in that area continues it may well one day prove to be a stroke of visionary genius to have put it there.

Big "ifs" in there though, particularly Transport.

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almost 12 years ago

"North Harbour Stadium is changing its name to QBE Stadium after selling naming rights for 5 years to the insurance group who are the main sponsors of Nth Harbour Rugby.

etc. etc.

"Nth Harbour Stadium's main field is used eleven (11) times a year ("which is not nearly sufficient for our loyal paying patrons".)"

- NZ Herald article 2 days ago.

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SurgeQld wrote:

Tegal wrote:

John Terris still living in the 1980s it seems...

"And only fell out of favour once the tv racing channel was established"

Um...like how sky sports is established for football?

He's referring to Trackside, not Sky... Hutt Park died (as a trots venue) for many reasons - television was certainly a contributing factor but there were many others.

I believe Hutt Park died partly because they spent a shit load on a fully enclosed members stand and next to nothing on the rest of the ground for the paying customer. Although I think a pie cart caravan was allowed in there for the general public. The racing surface was good. They even got dog racing in there to help save it but it never took off again because of the poor faciliies.

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almost 12 years ago

I always think that North Harbour made two mistakes

1: Not putting the other side up

2: If you are going to put one side up, they should have made it the other one in my opinion.

Grumpy old bastard alert

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almost 12 years ago

Jeff Vader wrote:

I always think that North Harbour made two mistakes

1: Not putting the other side up

2: If you are going to put one side up, they should have made it the other one in my opinion.

Exactly! Who needs the sun glaring straight into your eyes for 1/12 hours!

"At the end of the drive the lawmen arrive...

I'll take my chance because luck is on my side or something...

Her name is Rio, she don't need to understand...

Oh Rio, Rio, hear them shout across the land..."

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almost 12 years ago

For the first 10 years or so of it's existence, I didn't even know that N.Harbour stadium only had one side! The cameras are always pointing toward the stand side, I just assumed it had identical sides! Someone told me and I didn't even believe them, I had to google-image it... I was shocked

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almost 12 years ago

paulm wrote:

I had a bit to do with the place when it was first built. The original plan showed a second stand that was a mirror image of the current one. The plan wasn't to build it straight away but it was on the never-never plan to do that. From memory it was based on the design of another stasdium in Britain, I'm thinking something like wigan or Bradford Rugby League for some reason. There was also a lot of thought put into the location with Albany being predicted to be a large population centre in a number of yearswith transport, shopping etc all around. It has certainly moved int hat direction from the early days when the stadium was out on its own, the whole precinct has changed too witht he artificial turf etc and new fields put in. Personally I think it is a good facility but suffers from less use than it needs to turn a profit.

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