Tairāwhiti Indoor Centre

10/04/2025

🙌 A great result yesterday! 🙌

Gisborne District Councillors unanimously approved the business case for the Multi-purpose Indoor Centre to be built by the Kiwa Pools (starting with three courts).

There are still many challenges to overcome, but now work can start to seek the estimated $22 million for the facility, ($2.5 million has already been committed by the Council), along with further work regarding the design, operating and ownership models, consents etc.

There’s a plan and a collective will to finally get this facility built! Read more about yesterday’s Council session here:

07/04/2025

Important Update 📣📣

The business case for the multi-purpose Indoor Centre is ready to be presented to the Council. And we’d love for you to come along to show your support!

The business case states that:

* A three-court indoor centre is needed (with the potential to add a court in future).

* The centre would cater for kapa haka, and a range of sporting and recreation activities. It would also have the capacity to host tournaments/conferences.

* The preferred location is down by the Kiwa Pools.

* The estimated cost to build the indoor centre is $22 million (if construction starts in 2028).

At 1pm, this Wednesday the 9th of April, the business case will be presented to the Mayor and all Councillors at the Council chambers.

The public are welcome to watch, so please come down to Council and show your support (seating may be limited). We want the Council to endorse this business case so funding can be sought to build the centre.

Here is the link to the full business case (scroll to page 71):
https://www.gdc.govt.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0033/89439/Part-D-of-AGENDA-Extraordinary-Council-9-April-2025-.pdf

A massive thank you to everyone who has contributed to this process and shown their support so far. Let’s make this happen!

10/01/2025

Some of you may have seen the news about the redevelopment of the outdoor courts at Victoria Domain. This is a separate project that has been in the pipeline for many years and we're rapt to see that construction will start on this project soon. It will see some multi-purpose outdoor courts built that can be used by a number of codes, e.g. basketball, netball, tennis, pickleball etc but it doesn't take away from the need for a dedicated indoor centre. So we are 100% behind pushing on with this project.

As we enter 2025 you'll want to know what is happening with the Multi Purpose Indoor Centre. We're all passionate about seeing this kaupapa progress, so we know the delays have been frustrating.

The latest update is that the completed feasibility study will be presented to Councillors in February (and that will make it public). We're pushing for this milestone to be reached, as it's important the whole community has visibility for what is planned and we can start sharing this vision with funders (and asking for the $ we will need).

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