Reconnecting the City to Te Awanui / Tauranga Harbour.

Tauranga City Council are developing a connected waterfront between the CBD and Memorial Park. Known as Te Hononga ki Te Awanui, the project focuses on providing for recreation to and along the waterfront. Reconnecting the city and the community to the waterfront will be achieved in a sensitive response that creates opportunity to integrate the cultural, ecological and landscape values important to area.

Boffa Miskell designers, planners and ecologists and the wider project team have worked collaboratively with Ngāi Tamarāwaho, Ngāi Te Ahi, Ngāti Ruahine (Ngāti Ranginui hapū – Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Ranginui Iwi Inc); and Ngāti Hē, Ngāti Tapu and Ngāi Tūkairangi (Ngāi Te Rangi hapū – Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Te Rangi Iwi) to develop the project in two stages.

Location

Bay of Plenty

Worked with

Tonkin + Taylor Limited
Cogito Consulting Limited
GHD Limited
Hatch Consulting Limited
Holmes Consulting
Vitruvius

Project date

2021 - ongoing

Stage 1 comprises Elizabeth Street to The Strand, Stage 2 being the Memorial Link. The project team of landscape architects, landscape planners, cultural advisors, mana whenua, ecologists, planners, urban designers engineers, have worked collaboratively to address the complex environmental, cultural and coastal values.

Enhancing the vitality of people and the environment by creating a culturally rich waterfront that is vibrant and focuses on enhancing the mauri of Te Awanui and mana whenua are key outcomes sought in the project.

The project continues to develop the Stage 1 design further toward construction in 2023 and progressing engagement, design and consenting of the Stage 2 Memorial Link.

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