SkyCity gearing up for reopen, NZICC completion date extended to Jan 2025

SkyCity gearing up for reopen, NZICC completion date extended to Jan 2025
Rebecca Howard
SkyCity Entertainment staff are on site gearing up to reopen if covid-19 restrictions are further eased and Fletcher Construction now has until Jan 2025 to finish the convention centre and hotel project because the pandemic is considered a force majeure event. “At alert level 2, SkyCity expects to re-open its New Zealand properties in a staged manner with reduced operating hours, initially based on expected customer demand,” it said. It currently expects re-openings by the end of May 2020.New Zealand eased the lockdown res...

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