Auckland Council to revisit CRL station precinct plans at Mt Eden, Mayor Wayne Brown discloses $180m land sales target

Auckland Council to revisit CRL station precinct plans at Mt Eden, Mayor Wayne Brown discloses $180m land sales target
Some of the bare land around the Maungawhau CRL station. (Image: BusinessDesk)
Oliver Lewis
Brent Kennedy likens it to something out of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The City Rail Link (CRL) station at Maungawhau/Mt Eden looks, Kennedy said, like it’s been dropped into the Uptown neighbourhood from outer space.“We're incredulous, really, that more thought hasn't been put into the social dividend and integrating the new station into the broader neighbourhood,” the precinct leader for the Uptown Business Association told BusinessDesk.“We want to see more ambition and imagination.”As it st...

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