Downtown car park building legal challenge 'resolved'

Downtown car park building legal challenge 'resolved'
Renders from Precinct Properties show the redevelopment of the downtown car parking building. (Image: Precinct)
Oliver Lewis
Judicial review proceedings against the sale of a central Auckland car parking building to Precinct Properties have been resolved.Save the Queen Street Society launched a Givealittle fundraising page several weeks ago to crowdfund its judicial review against Auckland Council and Precinct, which was due to be heard in the High Court at Auckland from Aug 5.As of late Wednesday, the society had raised $2170, or around 0.4% of its $500,000 target.On Tuesday, a spokeswoman for Precinct, the publicly listed property developer behind Commercial Bay, s...

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