NZEEC secures five-year lease of Auckland Showgrounds
Auckland Showgrounds has been given an interim operator, with NZEEC signing a lease to operate the venue for the next five years.
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Auckland Showgrounds has been given an interim operator, with NZEEC signing a lease to operate the venue for the next five years.
Interim operator NZEEC will continue management of the Showgrounds.
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CPTB chair Adrienne Young-Cooper said having a new operator in place within a month of the previous operator going into liquidation was “a tremendous outcome”, and the result of a lot of hard work by CPTB, the liquidator, and the new operator. Chris McKeen/Stuff The Easter Show was an annual fixture at ASB Showgrounds. “We have said right from the start that we were prepared to support any workable proposal that would allow the showgrounds to continue to operate,” Young-Cooper said. NZEEC had developed a solution that minimised disruption to exhibitors and the public, she said. Jas...