Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Viv Beck: Heart of the City CEO on the Government investigating potential changes to Eden Park's event rules

Transcript

Viv Beck: Heart of the City CEO on the Government investigating potential changes to Eden Park's event rules · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: So Haling Clark heading back this morning as the government
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: goes after Eden Park's restrictions. Only six artists are allowed
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: to play a total of twelve shows a year there,
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: and only on certain days. You've got a curfew on weeknights.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: These are two thousand. I didn't realize this until yesterday.
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Two thousand max capacity for conferences there. Consultation on changes
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: getting underway. Vivbek, Heart of the City CEO with us
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: this morning. Viv, good morning, Good morning. How ridiculous are
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: these rules?
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: Well, what I can say is that this is all
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: about driving economic growth and I think the idea of
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: actually testing this to enable more concerts wherever they might be.
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: But it's about the size and the scale. If we're
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: going to benchmark ourselves with Brisbane they had forty five,
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: I think as I understand that their Economic Development Agency
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: supported more than forty five events, I think it might
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: have been twenty four that generated two hundred million economic
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: activity and bought two hundred thousand people to the city.
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: So you know, we're talking about unlocking the ability to
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: really utilize major events as a big economic driver.
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: Do we have the same infrastructure and capacity though as Brisbane.
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: Has well you know, Eden Park is clearly the largest
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: stadium in the country, and we've got others coming on
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: stream but not as big. So it's you know, we're
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: going to have to do something that's fit for purpose here.
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: But I think the idea of having a look at
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: these rules to see what's possible is important. And you know,
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: the factor is that these are the opportunities we've been
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: asking for. We're looking for a long term, sustainable pipeline
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: of events with sustainable funding. Now that's not what's here.
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: We've got some immediate money, which is terrific to drive things.
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: From our perspective, coming out of a decade of major
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: construction and disruption, this is the sort of thing that
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: can actually start to get things moving.
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you think they're going to do because
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: they've announced this one off money for the major events?
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: What are you think they're going to do it because
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: they're talking or they want a pipeline that they need
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: to stuff going forward? Is that? Do you reckon that
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: they're going to I reckon the nets are going to
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: go to the election with a bed tax. What do
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: you reckon?
• 2:10
  Speaker 2: Well, there's going to have to be something, and they've
• 2:13
  Speaker 2: pushed back I understand if they pushed back on it
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: because there was well, they're not going to do it
• 2:17
  Speaker 2: this term. There's quite a lot of support for it
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: to be national rather than regional. Obviously there's a big
• 2:24
  Speaker 2: push here to get something locally to get things moving,
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: but I think what we do need is to see
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: what's going to come beyond that. There has to be
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: something If we're going to be in this space, we're
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: going to have to have a sustainable funding model. So
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: this is really an interim step. I think it's been
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: really well received from our perspective. If you look at
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: something like a Pink you know, we had a day
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: of six and a half million dollars of spend. You know,
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: those sort of concerts make a massive difference, and that's
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: really what we want to unlock here. And I think,
• 2:53
  Speaker 2: you know, having a lock at these rules to see
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: what is possible to really start to grow and make
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: sure we're in it for the long time, that's going
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: to be key because we have to have the artists
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: wanting to come here. It has to be, you know,
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: something that's viable. But there's certainly a big opportunity from
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: an economic perspective.
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: Everyone talks about Pink. I mean it was a great concert,
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: wasn't that. There's no doubt, no denying that.
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: I appreciate your time this morning, vivid Heart of the
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: City's CEO.
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge, Listen live
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: to news talks it'd be from five am weekdays, or
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.