Hilton related newsitems

• • Why we can’t be smug about the leaky buildings on Auckland’s waterfront

    • 16 Feb 2010
    • Wellington Scoop
    • I felt unreasonably smug at the weekend when I learnt that the Hilton Hotel on Princes Wharf in Auckland has had to close some of its best rooms because there are leaks in the walls. Would this have also been the fate of a Hilton Hotel in Wellington, had it been allowed to build on the outer-Tee of Queens Wharf?
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• • Icon get no satisfaction

    • 25 Sep 2008
    • Eye of the Fish
    • It has been announced by the Wellington City Council, that following on from the demise of the proposal for a Hilton Hotel, there will be an ideas competition for the end of the Outer T on Queens Wharf: currently home to an old tin shed, as I’m sure you all know. The Hilton-to-be, as you will recall, was vanquished by the continued badgering of the combined forces of Waterfront Watch and the Civic Trust (go Grey Power!), and no one much seems to have mourned its passing (blogged by Philip back in March). The Hilton’s Auckland architects have left town with their tails between their legs, probably destined never to want to return. While details for the competition for the replacement building have not been clarified yet, there’s one thing for sure: there’s going to be a call for it to be Iconic.
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• • The Hilton vanishes?

    • 15 Mar 2008
    • Eye of the Fish
    • The potential Hilton hotel has had the appeals against its consent upheld, signalling what is likely to be the end of the controversial waterfront proposal. Having started the applications process back in later 2005, the news seems like it will be a decisive blow to the project; although an appeal is possible, it must go through the High Court.
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    Save Our Game

    • 17 Aug 2007
    • Zephyr Rovers FC
    • Zephyr Rovers Manager Steve Hall today confirmed he would be making a submission to the Wellington City Council next week to save sport on the waterfront. "The council has decided we need a Hilton Hotel on the waterfront and I have no issue with that" said Hall "but we want to see an alternative venue for sport on the waterfront as we sure can't jog to Kilbernie at lunch time to play in the new indoor facility out there".
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    • indoor-sports-centre

    ASB Sports Centre, Kemp Street, Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Waterfront update

    • 12 Dec 2006
    • WellUrban
    • must be a sucker for punishment, since on Monday night I attended the latest Waterfront Development Subcommittee meeting.
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• • The World on our doorstep

    • 18 Oct 2006
    • WellUrban
    • Just imagine the reaction if a huge multistorey structure appeared at Queens Wharf, full of wealthy foreigners, and serviced by coaches that interfere with pedestrian movement. There'd be a huge outcry, wouldn't there?
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    Rovers Back Save Our City Centre Sport

    • 22 Sep 2006
    • Land Rovers Football Club
    • Land Rovers manager Steve Hall said this morning that Land Rovers would throw their full support behind Save Our City Centre Sport. "Comments made earlier in the week might suggest Rovers don't support inner city sport which we obviously do" said Hall "but let's face it ideally we'd like to have better facilites with little luxuries like toilets and showers, not available in the Shed of Dreams".
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• • Hilton happening

    • 20 Sep 2006
    • WellUrban
    • After more than a decade of wheeling and dealing, wrangling and wailing, the proposed Queens Wharf Hilton has been granted resource consent.
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• • Shed 1 - Make Your Voice Heard

    • 14 Feb 2006
    • SOS - Save City Centre Sport
    • You have until 4pm on Feb 27th to make your voice heard to Wellington Regional Council over the Hilton Hotel's resource consent application.
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    • sport