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Hayley Horan: Wellington Chamber of Commerce CEO on the canning of the Golden Mile project · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Golden Mild Dreams Over. Of course, fourteen to three was
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  Speaker 2: the vote to adjust it to a point it can
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  Speaker 2: be afforded. We had one thirty nine million in rising
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  Speaker 2: towards a quarter billion, had a sort of a runaway
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  Speaker 2: train feel all over it, didn't it. Haley Horn is
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  Speaker 2: the chief executive of the Business Central and Wellington Chamber
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  Speaker 2: of Commerce. Morning, Good morning, Mike Broadly, did you dodge
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  Speaker 2: your bullet?
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  Speaker 3: Look, the goal was right. The years of reviews and
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  Speaker 3: re scropes, that's where businesses just got exhausted. So we
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  Speaker 3: welcome a decision beats another year of limbo.
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  Speaker 2: Good what's your vibe on Little in the council of
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  Speaker 2: the adults arrived in the room here at last.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I think businesses are feeling that they're at the
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  Speaker 3: table a little more than they were, and I think
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  Speaker 3: new leadership is always a good thing, and we are
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  Speaker 3: working together and look are vibrant city is what we
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  Speaker 3: all want.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. Little was talking yesterday about putting a few
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  Speaker 2: pop plants, and I think it needs more than that.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't it. I mean, has anyone got a cohesive plan
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  Speaker 2: as to what it could be without breaking the bank?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Look, I know it feels like cleaning the streets and
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  Speaker 3: planting a few pop plants, is you know, seems a
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  Speaker 3: little too low.
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  Speaker 2: But I tell you what.
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  Speaker 3: The businesses in Wellington have got together. We have a
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  Speaker 3: communit business group that willispond and other businesses are pulled
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  Speaker 3: together called Taoha. It's a Courtney precinct concept where we've
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  Speaker 3: put some answers on the table through business and I
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  Speaker 3: think that the council is ready to listen. So that
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  Speaker 3: whole central local business collaboration is going to be critical.
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  Speaker 2: Are you bullish on Wellington generally? Whoa too longer? Too longer?
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  Speaker 3: Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 3: I think that Wellington is due for an absolute rebirth,
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  Speaker 3: and this weekend's going to kick off by winning the game.
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  Speaker 3: But what I would say is that there is a
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  Speaker 3: set vents of coming together that we haven't had in
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  Speaker 3: a very long time, and we are cautiously optimistic about
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  Speaker 3: what is about to occur. So yes, I am good,
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  Speaker 3: but this is important. We did a green Light Economy
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  Speaker 3: report last year, a thousand of our members. Business members
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  Speaker 3: in Wellington said inner city revitalization is key. So no
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  Speaker 3: one argues that having a city is where people want
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  Speaker 3: to come is the bad idea. But it obviously got
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  Speaker 3: too big and two completes. I am looking forward to
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  Speaker 3: what is going to happen next, but let's get shovels
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  Speaker 3: in the ground and less shiny brochures. That's pretty much
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  Speaker 3: the business message.
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  Speaker 2: I like the cut of your jip. Have a good weekend,
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  Speaker 2: Hailey Horn, who's the right? So yup, Wellington Chamber of
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  Speaker 2: Commerce Hurricanes hot favorites. I didn't realize how hot are favorites.
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