1 Mar 2024

Wellington City Council to push ahead with property deal for Reading Cinema

From Morning Report, 6:48 am on 1 March 2024

Wellington City Council has decided to push ahead with a $32 million property deal in a bid to end the long-running Reading Cinema saga.

The council will buy the land under the earthquake prone complex on Courtenay Place, with the international company that owns it planning to use that money to redevelop it.

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