Emergency motel housing: Urbano Bistro Cafe & Restaurant owner Richard Sewell tells of impact
15 May, 2021 08:00 PM
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Urbano Bistro Cafe & Restaurant owner Richard Sewell says he'd love to hear some people getting emergency housing say thanks. Photo / Andrew Warner
Urbano Bistro Cafe & Restaurant owner Richard Sewell says he'd love to hear some people getting emergency housing say thanks. Photo / Andrew Warner
Smack in the middle of Rotorua's emergency housing providers on what has become known as "MSD Mile" on Fenton St is an upmarket award-winning restaurant.
For 39 years its owner, Richard Sewell, has run successful
businesses in the city and despite "going to hell and back in the last six months" as a result of what he believes is trouble caused by some people around his business, it is doing well and is not going anywhere.