Recent rain has been a bonus for the Mount Greens project with the croquet greens grass growth shooting ahead.
Seed for the six croquet lawns was first sown three weeks ago when that part of the project was handed over to the Mount Greens Sports green keepers.
Ross Linney show Tauranga City Councillors and staff the greens progress.
"They look like they are just about ready for their first cut," says city council project manager Tony Bodger, "but that decision is up to the green keepers."
The bowling greens, two grass and one artificial turf are to be handed over in July.
All playing surfaces are expected to be ready for games by mid November. Handover of the whole project, including the clubrooms and new Cosmopolitan club, is expected mid December.
The budget for site development is $3.2 million, consisting of $2.9 million from council and $300,000 from Mount Greens Sports Inc.
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Mount Greens Sports is paying for the amenities block, shade structures and seating. Mount Greens is also growing in the lawns and greens following handover from the main contractor.
"We are really delighted with where we have got to, other people will look at it and envy," says Mount Greens Sports chairman Ross Linney.
8 comments
Oranges and Lemon Heads
Posted on 10-06-2010 13:34 | By ACTIVIST
Hard hats and flourishing green grass must be symbolic because you would ve been soft in the head and green as grass to become involved in this ill-conceived venture for the benefit of a chosen few citizens. I think I recognise Cr. Faulkner in the background, wearing an orange hard hat and safety shades, looking dazed too! Probably wondering how on earth TCC managed to waste $$$$$$$$ on this bit of nonsense.
MOUNT GREENS MADNESS
Posted on 12-06-2010 15:12 | By PIED PIPER
Envious is not the word I would use for a luxury facility built on desolate prime industrial land on the main Tauranga, Mount Maunganui Highway opposite the Port Railway marshalling yards, next to the saltworks and almost adjacent to the coal storage sheds and coal conveyor belts, all for the chosen privileged few people, perhaps up to 2,000 of them - envy the players and tipplers, I think not!! Furious at the obscene cost to ratepayers by stripping assets like prime industrial land that was previously used for Blake Park overflow parking, valued at $20 million and injecting cash of up to $13.5 million a grand total of around $33.5 million is definitely an apt reaction to this fiscal madness. A scheme that should have cost $3 million and could have been accommodated in Blake Park itself will probably cost ratepayers $30 million in assets and cash, while not to overlooking the fact that the existing upmarket Cozzie Clubrooms are to be demolished for parking as soon as possible. A wanton waste of assets! Stand back and just think, Rugby Northland, with help from Whangarei District Council is building and upgrading its new grandstand, Conference Facilities & Exhibition Rooms, etc., 4 storeys high for just $16.5 million at Okara Park. Those with any inside knowledge as to how this thing germinated and flourished into the ogre it is, should speak out and let us all in on the secret. This is the forum to do so and rest assured it will be checked out because outrageous extravagances like this are unacceptable in today s poor economic climate or for that matter, at any time.
HARD HEADS
Posted on 09-06-2010 16:38 | By The Master
Murray they need reflective jackets to stand out in the "GREEN" grass. It is all about being different ... you never know what lurks in the grass and of course what use it can be put to?
CROWN JEWELS WASTED
Posted on 10-06-2010 13:48 | By ROCCO
It really has a blood diamonds look about it. In some less civilised countries, you might be stoned, sent to Siberia or exiled for gross spendthrift type incompetency on this scale to the major detriment of hard working ratepayers No wonder the punters are all wearing hard hats, protective vests and safety goggles, possibly just in case an angry mob turns up and confronts them when the coin finally drops about this white elephant
INSANITY IS CONTAGIOUS
Posted on 10-06-2010 14:54 | By The Master
How do you TRY TO make a pigs ear look like a silk purse? Tell em it s gold, they will flatten it and build it again at twice the cost. Then initiate selective memory such that it was all a good idea and all wander around in pretty jackets and hard hats trying to look impressed whilst wondering where all the money actually went to.
STUNNED MULLETS
Posted on 08-06-2010 20:48 | By The Master
Sorry lads to late to cut hay and to boot even. The hay sales will not help the price tag of $33 million all up, where is the gold plating on the grass for that one, we could sellthe grass to teh Arabs to pay for something useful like oil ... Look at this folks ... $20 million of useful land gone Town claimed it was reserve land and it is not Cosi club just refitted the premises for $3 million "TOWN" Hall paid $6 million for it and are going to flatten it When does the madness stop ... It is not "envy" it is absolute astonishment that so much has been spent for so little.
SPEED RACERS RETURNED
Posted on 15-06-2010 23:28 | By The Master
This little project happened so fast that not even the occupants could keep up with the pace of change as it happened. There goes $33 million, that is about $825 per household The annual loss will be somewhere around $150 household each and every year and increasing as the debt only get bigger. They will say that has not been paid from rates, but that is a dream, one way or another RATEPAYERS pay.
PINOCCHIO RESURRECTED IN TOWN HALL
Posted on 16-06-2010 00:07 | By The Master
The reply is a compliment Mike, however the wording needs to be tidied up a bit so as we are CLEAR . The fact is that you can not respond as there is nothing meaningful that you are able to add to this forum anymore because when you speak there is no one there to listen .
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