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Reinventing

Porirua City Centre

Bryan Patchett

GM City Growth & Partnerships

Porirua City Council

The Workers’ Porirua

The Workers’ Porirua

The city centre - a place to relax

The 'six o'clock swill' at the Porirua Tavern in 1967

The city centre – a place to shop

Then the tariff wall came down

Shopping changed

Negative perceptions were

reinforced

Another Porirua was growing

First steps to revitalise

More early steps to revitalise

Meanwhile the decline continued

A change of tack

Physical improvements: 2014/15

Physical improvements: 2016/17

Activating the city centre

– day and night

Residential opportunities

Business development

Early Successes

Lessons learned so far

• Smaller sequenced projects – no big bang

• Family focused events work best

• Strong political leadership and community

engagement

• It’s not about going back – it’s about

reinventing

Time’s Up!

• About the speaker: – Name: Bryan Patchett

– :Organisation: Porirua City Council

– Tel: 04 237 1431

– Email: bpatchett@pcc.govt.nz