Quay Park and Eden Park 2.1 are the two successful proposals that will go through the next stage to become Auckland’s new or upgraded stadium.
A working group led by Councillor Shane Henderson will recommend at Auckland Council’s governing body meeting on Thursday that a feasibility study should be carried out on these two options.
If councillors accept this recommendation, it’s the end of the road for the two waterfront options at Wynyard Point and Bledisloe Wharf.
“The stadium working group is going to recommend that we move forward to a feasibility study for Quay Park and Eden Park 2.1 and test that against the BAU (Business as Usual),” Henderson confirmed.
“The other detail is that we were expecting a nine-month turnaround on the feasibility study, the quicker the better, but the thing is that it will be at their cost, so once again there is no ratepayers’ money going into it.”