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Leeann Watson: Business Canterbury CEO on the opening of the One NZ Stadium · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: One in zed stadium. It's Takaha kicking off with a
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  Speaker 1: super bang FORANZAC weekend the Super Rugby Super Round ten
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  Speaker 1: teams back to back games. Lee and Watson, chief executive
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  Speaker 1: at Business Canterbury, joins me this morning, Get Alien, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: very exciting weekend ahead for you. How many are you expecting?
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  Speaker 1: What sort of activity in the city.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, look, it'll be certainly a full house at the stadium,
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  Speaker 2: So twenty five thousand people will be flowing out of
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  Speaker 2: that stadium after the very first game tonight, and that
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  Speaker 2: is a moment that christ Church in Canary has been
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  Speaker 2: waiting for for a very long time. So it's a
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  Speaker 2: super exciting day. But of course it is also just
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  Speaker 2: the beginning for the city.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you've got six sixty and may haven't you?
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  Speaker 1: You got Robbie Williams coming later this year. Anything else
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  Speaker 1: that you want to announce to us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: If I knew, maybe, but I don't. But look, I
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  Speaker 2: think you know, this is a really exciting time. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we know that the central city was largely sort of
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  Speaker 2: rebuilt and that was the private sector. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: had businesses and private investors you know, really commit early
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  Speaker 2: and get into the central city and so this is
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  Speaker 2: real payback for those businesses now that the stadium is
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  Speaker 2: about to open and we will see not only our
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  Speaker 2: own people from christ Chuch and Canterary in the South
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  Speaker 2: Island coming, but those from the North Island. Have tried
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  Speaker 2: to get a flight back from Willington last night. All
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  Speaker 2: of them were full. It's a really great sign so
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  Speaker 2: that it will bring people into the city and spending
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  Speaker 2: money locally, which is exactly what we want.
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  Speaker 1: Leanne, Are you seeing businesses make decisions about where to
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  Speaker 1: locate themselves that sort of thing now that the stadium's
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  Speaker 1: being built, Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Look, definitely, but that's been happening for years actually, which
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  Speaker 2: is good and as I said before, the private sector,
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  Speaker 2: you know, really lead the redevelopment of the central city
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  Speaker 2: on the basis that we were going to have the
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  Speaker 2: stadium right in the heart of you know what is
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  Speaker 2: now our world class central city. So people are still
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  Speaker 2: making those decisions. You know, spoken to a number of
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  Speaker 2: businesses that have got themselves positioned pretty close to the
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  Speaker 2: stadium as well, and they'll no doubt be hosting clients
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  Speaker 2: before the game tonight. So it's a real draw card.
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  Speaker 2: It puts christ Uch back on the world stage. It
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  Speaker 2: also bringing forces of course that you know, christ Church
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  Speaker 2: is now a new, modern, ambitious city full of opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: and that's great for our investors' scrateful businesses who are
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  Speaker 2: looking to move here and also looking for people that
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  Speaker 2: are wanting to move into christ chut I'm trying to
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  Speaker 2: This really is more than just a piece of infrastructure
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  Speaker 2: in the central city totally.
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  Speaker 1: It's sort of the icing on the cake, really, isn't
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  Speaker 1: it for In terms of your entertainment, Leanne? What about
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  Speaker 1: the hotel situation? Hotel and accommodation, have you got enough
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  Speaker 1: of it in christ Church. I've been trying to book
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  Speaker 1: tickets to stay.
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  Speaker 2: I've got it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming to the concert, but I have been trying
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  Speaker 1: to book a hotel and shit, things are a bit tight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and look absolutely they are pretty tight. There's
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  Speaker 2: a positive situation to have. We've obviously got you know,
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  Speaker 2: the new Sheraitan hotel being built at the moment, that's
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  Speaker 2: imminent and so there is more beds coming, which I
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  Speaker 2: think we will definitely need. And that's a good sign that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we've got people who are wanting to come.
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  Speaker 2: We hope that we can make sure we've got different
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  Speaker 2: options of animal people, but I think that is deffinitely coming.
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  Speaker 1: LeAnn Watson, Chief Executive Business Canterbury. Time is twenty two
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  Speaker 1: minutes after five.
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