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Old parking lot all but demolished.

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new thread

16th of June update


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They seem to be excavating pretty deep at the rear of the site.

3rd July 2010

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Today

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What are they building?

Another carpark I suppose. The story of Auckland :|

^^

It is a car park - but hopefully with office space on the Victoria Street frontage.

Another carpark I suppose. The story of Auckland :|
I should have guessed :ohno:

Car stacker at the back and offices at the front - that's what the original plan was.

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Heard today from a reliable source that there will be 900 people working in this building (162 Victoria Street)?? Is that just referring to number of cars going to be parked there?

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Heard today from a reliable source that there will be 900 people working in this building (162 Victoria Street)?? Is that just referring to number of cars going to be parked there?

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see the police are onsite http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10674972..

^^

Seems like everything is back to normal and work is continuing

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^^

Seems like everything is back to normal and work is continuing


They found her body in the bush in the end, I think they originally thought it was potentially buried in the construction site.

Very sad.

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They found her body in the bush in the end, I think they originally thought it was potentially buried in the construction site.

they did find some of the evidence buried there however..

they did find some of the evidence buried there however..

Really? What did they find?

Really? What did they find?

heard a bag of clothes was found there or was it not relevant ?

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wow... 3 years to build a 5 fl building .... & still not done :ohno:

wow... 3 years to build a 5 fl building .... & still not done :ohno:

Construction of this one only commenced midway through last year.

wow... 3 years to build a 5 fl building .... & still not done :ohno:

Perhaps we should rename u DayDreamer ;). I think you have mis-read something somewhere. Only been going for 8 months now and there was a 2 week delay with police doing investigations.

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Office block has green credentials

Manson TCLM has almost finished its new Auckland office block at 162 Victoria St West, opposite Telecom Place. Last September, the site was scrutinised during the Carmen Thomas murder inquiry. This week, Culum Manson said the building was due for completion in January. "No tenants are committed yet but announcements are close," he said. The Property Council has invited members to tour the building on November 29, calling it a new-generation office building in the Victoria Precinct close to Victoria Park, the Viaduct area and the new Wynyard Quarter.

"It offers the latest in building services, including energy-efficient 4 Greenstar rating, ample cycle parks and showers and its own on-site cafe. An atrium void extends from the entry foyer/ground level up through all four upper office levels. "Suspended walk bridges serve each level from the lifts, providing architectural interest and convenient access to the floors," the council said. The four-level building has two basement levels.

looking good:)

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^^ i like it :)

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It's certainly an improvement over that half demolished structure that was being used as parking that was previously there that's for sure.

I really like the frontage to the road, but I'm not a huge fan of the rather bleak sides to the building. Is there any particular reason they went with that rather than making the sides more interesting as well?

Is there any particular reason they went with that rather than making the sides more interesting as well?

For future developments on either side of the adjoining sites. They won't be wasting money on fancy facade treatments which are going to be covered / enclosed.

very "contemporary"

Does it have any tenants?

Article regarding the fins that we all "love" so much and a render of 200 Victoria Street West .... HERE (http://eyeonauckland.com/2012/02/fins-fins-more-fins/)

Mansons TCLM signs first office tenant for 162 Vic

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Mansons TCLM Ltd has secured the first office tenant for its development at 162 Victoria St West, across the road from the 4-building complex it developed for Telecom Ltd. The family development company - Mansons TCLM is owned by Ted Manson & sons Culum, Luke & Mac – finished the building early this year and signed Sierra Coffee up first, for half the ground floor. Its second tenant, for the 1720m² second floor, is Paymark Ltd, the electronic payments company owned by the big 4 banks – ASB, ANZ, BNZ & Westpac – which signed up for a 10-year lease this week. Its network processes more than 75% of all electronic transactions in New Zealand. Paymark will move from the ASB Bank building on the corner of Albert & Wellesley Sts, which the Auckland Council is considering buying as a replacement for its asbestos-riddled headquarters on Aotea Square.

CBRE leasing agent Lindsay Jackson, who signed the deal, said the rent was “probably trend-setting”, but that was only part of the equation: “The deal works out very attractively for a long-term location. For a lot of these bigger corporates, it’s not about the dollars they spend on the accommodation, it’s what it can do for them.” 162 Victoria has 3 levels with a net lettable area of 1720m² and is topped by a 1200m² office floor with a large rear deck that has views across the western fringe of the cbd. It’s been built to the boundaries, with an atrium up the middle, and has been designed for a 4-star green-star rating. It’s the second large signing on spec developments by Mansons TCLM, which signed its first major lease in the Napier Plaza development, beside the motorway in Freemans Bay, in May. That lease on 3000m² of the building’s 7500m² of office space is to international engineering company GHD Ltd, which will also take naming rights to a building which faces oncoming motorway traffic climbing from the Auckland Harbour Bridge towards Spaghetti Junction.

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It's quite a surprise when you go in there - the last thing you expect is this massive atrium with sky bridges :cheers:

It's quite a surprise when you go in there - the last thing you expect is this massive atrium with sky bridges :cheers:

File that under emerging trends. Iron Bank, Britomart East, ASB and this. Starting to become as popular as living walls and fins.

File that under emerging trends. Iron Bank, Britomart East, ASB and this. Starting to become as popular as living walls and fins.

Really just a new take on an old idea as a way to get more light into the centre of building. Still like to see more of it though.

Really just a new take on an old idea as a way to get more light into the centre of building. Still like to see more of it though.

I guess it hasn't been seen in a while. I guess building owners are no longer as concerned about maximising rental space and more concerned with increasing the quality of the building.

I guess it hasn't been seen in a while. I guess building owners are no longer as concerned about maximising rental space and more concerned with increasing the quality of the building.

There are other benefits too e.g. by having more natural light in the building you cut down on artificial lighting costs

File that under emerging trends. Iron Bank, Britomart East, ASB and this. Starting to become as popular as living walls and fins.

Don't forget NZI and Telecom - they are great examples:

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Oracle joins inner city IT enclave (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/property/news/article.cfm?c_id=8&objectid=10877093)

The top floor of the Victoria St West building will be Oracle NZ's new home. Oracle New Zealand has signed an agreement to lease the top floor of a new office building at 162 Victoria Street West recently completed by Mansons TCLM. "Oracle has decided to join a growing enclave of information technology companies in the western precinct of Auckland's central business district," said Paul Hain of Bayleys Real Estate who negotiated the lease and signage rights. Hain says the western precinct of the CBD near the waterfront is becoming increasingly popular with technology companies, including multinationals such as IBM, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard. "Waterfront Auckland's plans to establish a hub for innovation and tech start-ups in the Wynyard Quarter is likely to add further momentum to the western migration of technology companies within the CBD and Oracle has made the decision to reposition itself for the future," Hain said. Oracle will join Paymark, New Zealand's largest electronic payments provider, at 162 Victoria St West. Paymark is fitting out level two of the building before moving from the ASB Building in Wellesley St. Part of the ground floor of the building is leased to a Sierra cafe which is next to a large lobby area in the building's foyer ... MORE (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/property/news/article.cfm?c_id=8&objectid=10877093)