07.06.13. CBD cordon, NZDF corporal's note, Colombo St / Kilmore St
Untrue, as I'd stood on that crossing, 15.08.11, during a snow storm, taking pics: Town Hall & Crowne Plaza Hotel before the latter was demolished. The corporal didn't know that the red-zone SMF-cordon then went diagonally across the crossing & several buildings were demolished north along Colombo St & east along Kilmore St towards Manchester St crossing, to be replaced by glassy Forte Health rebuild. Never mind the NZDF-checkpoint while that rebuild occurred.
07.06.13. Orange, Hi-Vis vested, NZDF cordon corporal leaving the CBD cordon, Colombo St / Kilmore St. Forte Health rebuild behind
Truth: Kilmore St between Colombo St crossing & Manchester St crossing was red-zone-cordoned ever since the 22 February 2011 Quake & citizens were banned.
As CERA was busy opening a northwest niche of the red-zone-CBD-cordon, I parked at Cambridge Tce by Manchester St Bridge. Across Avon River, below poplars, ACC was demolished, a rubble pile for Margaret Mahy Family Playground. Two and a half years later, December 2015, Margaret Mahy Family Playground would be opened for the public.
I trekked a red-zone circuit following the reopening of the northwest CBD by CERA:
Manchester St Bridge: Westwards revealed the Avon River & recently demolished BNZ & multi-storey Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel which awaited repairs. More ruins: Copthorne Hotel, Victoria Square apartments, Craigs House all awaiting demolitions. Behind a SMF-cordon, an orange-digger picked over BNZ remains near a tangled steel-rebar heap.
I trekked reopened Armagh St which was SMF-cordoned both sides, past reopened New Regent St to Victoria Sq.
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon, white / orange, plastic bollards. Armagh St view, reopened New Regent St. Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel behind
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Armagh St view, BNZ demolition site, abandoned Copthorne Hotel awaited demolition, Victoria Sq
07.06.13. Tangled, steel rebars, BNZ demolition site, Armagh St
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Armagh St view, Victoria Sq, abandoned bldgs: Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel left awaited repairs. Victoria Square flats left behind, Copthorne Hotel right awaited demolitions. The latter for the new RC Cathedral precinct
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Orange digger, BNZ demolition site, Armagh St
Armagh St: I snapped SMF-cordoned demolition-sites to Gloucester St & ruins around Christ Church Cathedral ruin.
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Five cranes, 1 digger. Armagh St view, Isaac Theatre Royal flies, being restored, demolition sites to Gloucester St & Cathedral Sq ghosts, l to r: Heritage Hotel, repaired Novotel, Christ Church Cathedral, Camelot Hotel awaiting demolition for Central Library / Turanga rebuild
Armagh St: Avon River seepage had flooded PWC demolition-site's basement, concrete columns stuck up above the flooded basement with tangled steel-rebars on top of the columns. A rubble truck reversed across the road. I saw bank ruins, PSIS & ANZ, opposite the PWC demolition-site. Art prints in a photography ruin had lain on the floor for over two years since the 22 February 2011 Quake. Above that ruin I saw a tangled-blind hanging in a broken-window. USAR / TF graffiti was scrawled on another window-glass: CLEAR. No bodies.
2019. The flooded PWC basement & tangled steel-rebarred concrete-columns would become a nesting site for rare black-billed gulls. July 2021. I saw the black-billed gulls were gone. The PWC basement was drained & I saw two diggers demolishing the concrete columns in the PWC basement. 2022-23. I saw the black-billed gulls were back, roosting on carpark shingle next to the PWC demolition-site.
07.06.13. TRUCKS CROSSING. Steel mesh fence cordon. Avon River flooding in PWC demolition site basement, Armagh St
07.06.13. TRUCKS CROSSING. Armagh St, E view, abandoned bldgs, except reopened New Regent St right
07.06.13. Isaac Theatre Royal restoration left, abandoned PSIS / ANZ, Armagh St
07.06.13. We're Gold, photography / print shop, abandoned since the 22.02.11 quake, Armagh St
07.06.13. Quake trashed, window blind, Armagh St
07.06.13. USAR / TF graffiti, Armagh St. CLEAR meant no bodies
07.06.13. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Victoria Sq, abandoned bldgs, Armagh St / Colombo St: Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel left awaited repairs. Abandoned National Bank / Isaac House middle, awaited new neighbour, Convention Centre / Te Pae. Victoria Square flats beyond awaited demolition for NZ National govt's / CCDU's Blueprint Convention Centre / Te Pae
07.06.13. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Armagh St / Colombo St view, abandoned bldgs: Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel left awaited repairs. Abandoned Rydges Hotel middle. Central Library low middle awaiting demolition for NZ National govt's / CERA's Blueprint Convention Centre / Te Pae. Abandoned National Bank / Isaac House right awaited new neighbour, Convention Centre / Te Pae
07.06.13 Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Abandoned Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel awaited repairs, Colombo St / Armagh St
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Colombo St view, red zone, abandoned Copthorne Hotel middle awaited demolition, Victoria Sq. Abandoned Ernst & Young right awaited demolition, Cambridge Tce
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Armagh St / Colombo St crossing, E view, demolition sites, abandoned bldgs, Armagh St. Left of Armagh St would be the site for the new RC Cathedral precinct
07.06.13. Orange, plastic, road cone cordon. Colombo St / Armagh St crossing, S view, abandoned bldgs: Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel left awaited repairs. Camelot Hotel left behind awaited demolition for Central Library / Turanga rebuild. Ruined Christ Church Cathedral middle awaited reinstatement. National Bank / Isaac House right awaited new Convention Centre / Te Pae neighbour
07.06.13. Colombo St / Armagh St crossing, S view, red zone Cathedral Sq, NZDF checkpoint: abandoned Camelot Hotel left awaited demolition for Central Library / Turanga rebuild. Ruined Christ Church Cathedral middle awaited reinstatement. Chalice sculpture right survived the quakes
07.06.13. Abandoned National Bank / Isaac House, Colombo St / Armagh St, awaited new Convention Centre / Te Pae neighbour
Armagh St / Colombo St: I stood in the middle of Colombo St between ruins: Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel & National Bank / Isaac House for the first time since the 22 February 2011 Quake. Northwards beyond a SMF-cordon across Colombo St which blocked Victoria Sq (multi-storey Craigs House demolition was in progress) stood multi-storey Copthorne Hotel ruin awaiting demolition. 2018-21. The new Convention Centre / Te Pae would be built next to Isaac House.
Abandoned Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel: I saw messy, black-boarded cordon-fencing & threat-signs:
SEVERE FALL
HAZARD
DO NOT ENTER
Standing below abandoned Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel I was spooked again. CERA's Blueprint showed that the Performing Arts Precinct would be bordered by massive buildings: Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel, new Convention Centre / Te Pae, new Central Library / Turanga. CERA's Blueprint Performing Arts Precinct would be in the fall-zone of those tall buildings!
Colombo St: Standing on Farmers demolition site I took pics: demolition scarred backside of National Bank / Isaac House & Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel; demolition-sites in the Blueprint Performing Arts Precinct which extended to Isaac Theatre Royal restoration; the single-storey Blue Pearl Gallery Fine Jewellery which awaited demolition for the Performing Arts Precinct, its roof was covered with a white-tarp. It was surrounded by demolition-sites both sides of Colombo St.
07.06.13. Colombo St view, Farmers demolition site to abandoned Provincial Chambers. Other abandoned bldgs: Central Library left, Craigs House, Victoria Square flats, middle right awaited demolitions for NZ National govt's Blueprint Convention Centre / Te Pae
07.06.13. Farmers demolition site view, abandoned Forsyth Barr Crowne Plaza Hotel Colombo St / Armagh St
From Colombo St, I looked at Gloucester St demolition-sites, like Gloucester Arcade ruin to part-repaired, multi-storey Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel & The Press rebuild & repaired multi-storey Novotel & multi-storey Camelot Hotel ruin awaiting demolition for Central Library / Turanga rebuild, all looming above Gloucester St.
07.06.13. One orange digger, 3 cranes. Colombo St foreground view, abandoned Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel left, Blue Pearl Gallery middle, Camelot Hotel awaiting demolition right for Central Library / Turanga rebuild. Behind: Repaired Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel left, The Press rebuild middle, repaired Novotel
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Colombo St E view, red zone bldgs: Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel left, Isaac Theatre Royal flies middle. Blue Pearl Gallery right, awaited demolition for NZ National govt's / CERA's Blueprint Performing Arts Precinct
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Red zone, abandoned Blue Pearl Gallery, awaited demolition, Colombo St, for NZ National govt's / CERA's Blueprint Performing Arts Precinct. Repaired Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel, The Press rebuild right
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. One orange digger, 3 cranes. Colombo St view, demolition sites & Gloucester St bldgs: Isaac Theatre Royal restoration left, repaired Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel, The Press rebuild middle, repaired Novotel right
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Three cranes. Colombo St / Gloucester St view, repaired Novotel left, abandoned Camelot Hotel right awaiting demolition for Central Library / Turanga rebuild
07.06.13. Farmers demolition site, Colombo St / Gloucester St view, abandoned bldgs: Government Life left awaited demolition, Rydges Hotel middle, old Central Library right awaited demolition for NZ National Govt's / CCDU's Blueprint Convention Centre / Te Pae
Colombo St / Gloucester St crossing: NO PUBLIC ACCESS. It was the usual NZDF-checkpoint which blocked access to Christ Church Cathedral ruin & Camelot Hotel ruin & repaired multi-storey Novotel. A recently opened SMF-cordoned path went across the northwest corner of Cathedral Sq past multi-storey Government Life ruin awaiting demolition & abandoned multi-storey Rydges Hotel to Worcester St Bridge.
07.06.13. NO PUBLIC ACCESS. Orange, plastic, road cones, steel mesh fence cordon. Cathedral Sq, NZDF checkpoint, Colombo St / Gloucester St crossing. Ruined Christ Church Cathedral & Chalice beyond
Gloucester St: I trekked west past weedy SMF-cordoned ruins: Chancery Ln Arcade & Central Library awaiting demolitions. I saw that Central Library's ground-floor was gutted, ready for demolition for CCDUs' Blueprint Convention Centre / Te Pae on all those demolition-sites near Oxford Tce & Gloucester St between Victoria Sq & Cathedral Sq. Taxpayers would pay for the Blueprint Convention Centre / Te Pae. Who would pay for annual operating costs?
07.06.13. Orange, plastic, fence cordon. 30 km/h speed limit sign. Gloucester St, E view, Isaac Theatre Royal restoration left, Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel right
07.06.13. Orange, plastic, fence cordon, steel mesh fence cordon. Gloucester St, W view, abandoned Chancery Lane Arcade left, abandoned Central Library right. Both bldgs would be demolished by CERA for NZ National govt's / CCDU's Blueprint Convention Centre / Te Pae
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Gloucester St view, weedy, abandoned, Chancery Lane Arcade, awaited demolition for NZ National govt's / CCDU's Blueprint Convention Centre / Te Pae
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Oxford Tce view, abandoned Central Library, awaited demolition for NZ National govt's / CCDU's Blueprint Convention Centre / Te Pae
Appointed ECAN & elected Council tiff: ECAN's dame Bazley, a NZ National government groupie, criticized Council for not building an ECAN bus-stop at Northlands Mall by 3 December 2012. Never mind locals not being consulted by ECAN! Mayor Parker apologised, blaming an employee who'd left Council.
Meanwhile, town clerk Marryatt, who'd under-insured Council assets with Civic Assurance, (he was Civic Assurance's board chairman, a conflict of interest) had a secret Council meeting (public banned) claiming Civic Assurance was under arbitration regarding Council's insured assets & by having a public meeting he'd jeopardize Council's insurance settlement for quaked assets. Marryatt evaded asset insurance responsibility by delegating asset insurance matters to a subordinate. Marryatt took a $500 000+ per annum salary without insurance responsibility! Never mind increased board fees expected. (Weekend Press June 8-9, 2013).
The Star, 7 June 2013: CERA owed Council $500K while berating Council for not selling assets to pay for CCDU's Blueprint anchor projects. Meanwhile CERA minister Brownlee often berated Council, like moaning about slow repairs of Council housing.
Port Hills farce: CERA green-zoned housing while Council red-stickered 51 green-zoned houses which stopped citizens living in their sound homes! (The Press, 7 June 2013). Council's excuse: rockfall danger, whereas CERA's computer-model deemed rockfall danger minimal! (Weekend Press, 8-9 June 2013). Home-owners were stuck between Council & CERA!
NZ government stooges ECAN & CERA belittled Council. Example: One News, 12 June 2013 revealed CERA minister Brownlee was dissatisfied by Council's slow processing of building consents, saying consents processing may be removed from Council. Pot calling kettle, as CERA was slow with residential zoning after many delays & CERA's residential zoning reviews weren't completed more than two years post 22 February 2011 Quake! Never mind CERA condoning EQC's & insurers' delays of home rebuilds & repairs. And Brownlee thought EQC did a good job.
CERA's greater Christchurch Recovery Update, Issue 22 June 2013, gave the following projections for IAG insurer's rebuilds / repairs:
2013: 1646
2014: 1127
Projected total rebuilds / Repairs: 2773
IAG would keep 2773 households waiting for three to four years post 22 February 2011 Quake before it even did house rebuilds or repairs! Why did IAG delay so long to do rebuilds / repairs? Imagine the suffering and anguish to householders. Never mind years of paying rates & insurances on broken houses & rent costs while IAG delayed. Why did PM Key & CERA minister Brownlee & CERA boss Sutton not sort out IAG soon post 22 February 2011 Quake? CERA's laissez faire attitude to slow insurers allowed insurers to delay claimants' settlements for years.
According to CERA: "IAG trades under the NZI, AMI** and State Insurance brands, and underwrites general insurance business for ASB, BNZ and the Co-operative Bank.
**AMI's earthquake claims are managed by Southern Response."
IAG wasn't the only slow insurer messing homeowners around with lengthy delays!
A CERA update revealing residential red-zone clearances (CERA's word-choice):
"The pace of residential red zone property clearances is now really gaining momentum. More than 2 000 demolitions are complete and CERA is on target to finish another 1 000 by the end of September 2013...
Brownlee: "We can now put more effort into speeding up the clearance process. It's important these areas are made safe, kept tidy and are maintained until a future use of the wider red zone is decided."... [Ignored a citizens' petition to parliament for an Avon River Otakaro Park].
"Of the 7 414 residential red zone properties eligible for an offer, 7 090 have signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement with the Crown (as at 28 May 2013)."
NZ National government thus protected slow insurers & took 7 000+ residential red-zone properties while staying mum about what it would do with all the residential red-zone land it took. CERA took residential red-zone properties, thus increasing government assets, yet NZ National government also wanted to sell other public assets.
Oxford Tce: My view near abandoned multi-storey Rydges Hotel, when I looked across SMF-cordoned Oxford Tce & Farmers demolition-site, I saw some of the ruined-CBD along Colombo St & Gloucester St, from left to right: Craigs House awaited demolition; Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel awaited repairs; Isaac Theatre Royal was restored; Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel was repaired; The Press was rebuilt; Novotel was repaired; Camelot Hotel awaited demolition for new Central Library / Turanga; old Central Library awaited demolition for CERA's Blueprint Convention Centre / Te Pae.
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Orange digger. Craigs House demolition in progress left, Oxford Tce / Armagh St. Abandoned Victoria Square flats behind awaited demolition. Both would be demolished for NZ National govt's / CERA's Blueprint Convention Centre / Te Pae. Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel right awaited repairs
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Craigs House demolition in progress, Oxford Tce / Armagh St, for NZ National govt's / CERA's Blueprint Convention Centre / Te Pae
Victoria Sq: Multi-storey Craigs House had more blue windows broken since I'd passed on Wednesday. I saw piles of aluminium & broken-glass strewn below Craigs House, Oxford Tce side. Below Craigs House, two gardeners in orange Hi-Vis vests dug a marigold flower-bed by Armagh St Bridge. Excepting me & the gardeners, Victoria Sq was empty.
07.06.13. Crane. Victoria Sq view, Craigs House demolition in progress, Armagh St / Oxford Tce. Abandoned Victoria Square flats left awaited demolition for NZ National govt's Blueprint Convention Centre / Te Pae
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Victoria Sq view, Queen Victoria, Boer War statue, abandoned bldgs: Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel left. National Bank / Isaac House right awaited new neighbour, Convention Centre / Te Pae
I trekked past Pallet Pavilion & The Arcades on Crowne Plaza Hotel demolition-site to Kilmore St which was SMF-cordon closed for over a year by abandoned Town Hall. Only CERA could tell why that section of Kilmore St was closed for over a year, as nothing went on there behind those NZDF checkpointed cordon-fences.
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. E view, Kilmore St, abandoned bldgs. Town Hall right awaited restoration
07.06.13. Kilmore St view, The Arcades, Pallet Pavilion, Crowne Plaza Hotel demolition site. Abandoned Spicers behind awaited demolition, Durham St Nth, for new lawyers' offices
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Kilmore St view, The Arcades, Crowne Plaza Hotel demolition site. Court House, Durham St Nth behind
07.06.13. Kilmore St view, The Arcades, Pallet Pavilion, Crowne Plaza Hotel demolition site. Abandoned Town Hall, Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel left; abandoned Victoria Square flats awaited demolition middle, Court House right
07.06.13. Kilmore St view, Gap Filler temp office, The Arcades, Crowne Plaza Hotel demolition site. Abandoned Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel left awaited repairs. Victoria Square flats middle awaited demolition
Kilmore St: Opposite abandoned Town Hall, I saw two more abandoned buildings with USAR / TF graffiti on doors. The old Convention Centre's demolition-site contained construction items opposite Peterborough St Central Library. 2021. Plans would be made for hotel & shops & offices to be built on the old Convention Centre site.
07.08.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Abandoned bldg, USAR / TF graffiti, Kilmore St
07.06.13. Kilmore St view, construction storage, old Convention Centre demolition site, opp post quake Central Library, Peterborough St. A decade hence, hotel, shops & offices would be built on the old Convention Centre site
Kilmore St / Colombo St crossing by abandoned Town Hall: By Colombo St SMF-cordon, I saw a flurry of orange Hi-Vis vested CERA workmen busy with a crane-truck & a ROAD MARKING truck. As mentioned above, I met the NZDF-corporal there. Glassy, three-storey Forte Health, Kilmore St was almost completed.
The Press, 17 June 2013: CERA minister Brownlee announced Town Hall should be demolished in favour of the Performing Arts precinct off Gloucester St. But Brownlee didn't say where all the actors & singers & dancers & musicians & directors would come from. Wishful thinking, as two years later, June 2015, new mayor Dalziel & her Council would confirm the previous Council's decision to repair / restore Town Hall. It would be better to use insurance money to repair Town Hall than do an expensive rebuild. But Council hadn't a clue what insurance payout would be!
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Abandoned Town Hall awaited repairs, Kilmore St
07.06.13. ROAD MARKING truck, reopened Kilmore St / Colombo St. Part reopened Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel left. Abandoned Copthorne Hotel awaited demolition middle. Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel awaited repairs middle behind. Town Hall awaited repairs right
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Orange, Hi-Vis vested CERA workers, reopening of Colombo St / Kilmore St. Part reopened Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel left. Abandoned Copthorne Hotel awaited demolition middle for the new RC Cathedral precinct. Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel awaited repairs right
07.06.13. PASS WITH CARE. White, crane truck, orange, Hi-Vis vested, CERA workmen. Abandoned Town Hall awaited repairs, Kilmore St / Colombo St
07.06.13. White, crane truck, reopened Kilmore St / Colombo St. Abandoned Ernst & Young awaited demolition right, Cambridge Tce
07.06.13. Orange, plastic, road cones, green portaloo, steel mesh fence cordon, orange, Hi-Vis vested workmen, Forte Health rebuild, Colombo St / Kilmore St
07.06.13. Orange, Hi-Vis vested workmen. Kilmore St / Colombo St view, abandoned Town Hall awaited repairs left
Cambridge Tce: For the first time since the 22 February 2011 Quake, I trekked past muddy demolition-sites & Ernst & Young ruin, awaiting demolition. I snapped Colombo St Bridge & abandoned Town Hall, both still SMF-cordoned. The CBD skyline seen from Avon River's true left bank was completely changed during quakes & CERA demolitions: Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel left; smaller high-rises middle, like Novotel & Millenium Hotel / Distinction Hotel dwarfing Christ Church Cathedral ghost; Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel right.
07.06.13. Cambridge Tce view, demolition sites, Forte Health rebuild, Kilmore St
07.06.13. Abandoned Ernst & Young, awaited demolition, Cambridge Tce
07.06.13. Cambridge Tce view, Avon River, closed Colombo St Bridge, abandoned Town Hall awaited repairs
07.06.13. Cambridge Tce view, Avon River, part opened Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel left. Abandoned Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel middle awaited repairs. Copthorne Hotel middle awaited demolition. Abandoned Victoria Square flats right awaited demolition
07.06.13. Cambridge Tce view, Avon River, Oxford Tce, abandoned Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel left awaited repairs. Copthorne Hotel right awaited demolition for the new RC Cathedral precinct
07.06.13. Cambridge Tce view, Avon River, abandoned Oxford Tce. Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel behind awaited repairs
07.06.13. Cambridge Tce view, Avon River, Oxford Tce. Behind: The Press rebuild, Isaac Theatre Royal restoration left, repaired Novotel, ruined Christ Church Cathedral, abandoned Camelot Hotel awaited demolition middle, abandoned PSIS / ANZ, Armagh St right
07.06.13. Cambridge Tce view, Avon River, BNZ demolition site. Behind: Part opened Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel middle, The Press rebuild, Isaac Theatre Royal restoration, Heritage Hotel right
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Cambridge Tce view, BNZ demolition site. Behind: Part opened Pacific Tower / Rendezvous Hotel middle, The Press rebuild right
07.06.13. Steel mesh fence cordon. Abandoned Ernst & Young, awaited demolition, Cambridge Tce
07.06.13. Orange, Hi-Vis vested workmen removing part of the red zone, steel mesh fence cordon, Cambridge Tce. Behind: Abandoned Forsyth Barr / Crowne Plaza Hotel left awaited repairs. Copthorne Hotel awaited demolition middle. Abandoned Town Hall right awaited repairs
By Ernst & Young ruin I trekked past three orange Hi-Vis vested workmen wearing hard-hats while they removed part of the red-zone SMF- cordon near PGC's demolition-site, where 18 people died in 22 February 2011 Quake. I looked across the grassed PGC site, across recently grassed CERA "meadows" (CERA demolition-sites) to Kilmore St / Manchester St crossing & St Lukes Anglican Church demolition-site. All that was left was St Luke's white, wooden, bell-tower.
07.06.13. Cambridge Tce view, grassy PGC demolition site towards Kilmore St / Manchester St crossing & St Lukes Anglican Church demolition site
07.06.13. Cambridge Tce view, grassy demolition sites to St Lukes Anglican Church demolition site & quake survivor bell tower
Behind a SMF-cordon by Retour Restaurant's demolition-site & decapitated copper-dome, two workmen wearing orange Hi-Vis vests sledge-hammered a stake into ground on Avon River bank. I saw no oil pollution that day. (2020-21. Edmonds Band Rotunda would be restored with its copper-dome on top).
07.06.13. Orange, Hi-Vis vested workmen sledge-hammering a stake, Retour Restaurant demolition site, Cambridge Tce / Manchester St. Abandoned Luneys behind, awaited demolition for NZ govt's / CERA's Blueprint Margaret Mahy Family Playground, Manchester St
*Trekked Kilmore St, Armagh St, Colombo St, Gloucester St, Oxford Tce, Cambridge Tce. 108 images.
Content & pics Copyright Mark JS Esslemont.
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