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Rotorua Chamber of Commerce survey: Businesses say no to housing homeless in CBD 11 Feb, 2021 05:00 PM 4 minutes to read The Lava Bar and X Base Backpackers on Arawa St. Photo / Kelly Makiha A proposal to convert the Lava Bar and X Base Backpackers into housing for the homeless has been met with strong resistance from Rotorua businesses. A Chamber of Commerce survey has found 89 per cent of the 365 people who had responded as of Wednesday afternoon did not want the plans to go ahead. A private property investor from Auckland, Peter Bidois of Torin Holdings, has told the Rot...

Lava Bar could close, Tiny Deane plans to open new Rotorua homeless hub and medical centre 26 Jan, 2021 05:00 PM 5 minutes to read The Lava Bar and X Base Backpackers on the corner of Ranolf and Arawa Sts. Photo / Kelly Makiha Popular Rotorua nightclub Lava Bar could close at the end of March and become a medical centre that will form part of a new hub for the homeless - if a property deal goes through. Homeless advocate Tiny Deane is behind the hub after working in partnership with a commercial property investor from Auckland who is about to buy the lease for the Lava Bar and neighbouring X ...