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Barbara Holloway
The Karangahape Road Business
Association - Auckland City mainstreet programme.
Sector represented: Retail/business
Area of interest on CBD board
My experience in the evolution of
the 'economy, ecology, culture and community' of town centres using a
collaborative approach will be useful across a range of disciplines.
Why I'm passionate about Auckland's
CBD
Its beauty, the potential in its
Pacificness. The platform which is provided by its tangata whenua, its harbours,
its cost effectiveness as a business base and its 'hot' creative sector and
position as the fashion and finance capital of New Zealand. "Auckland, last,
loneliest, loveliest, exquisite, apart", quoted Rudyard Kipling in the
nineteenth century but, today, with the advent of universal travel and
cyberspace we can be ... 'Auckland, first, friendliest, loveliest, exquisite,
apart'.
Barbara's background
- town manager, K Road Association
- thirty years retailer/consultant experience
- twenty years event management
- twelve years working with mainstreet programmes in New
Zealand consulting and lecturing
- twelve years working with mainstreet programmes in urban
design
- re-build of Onehunga town centre
- six years destination marketing
- six years working with developing public art and focusing creatives
- urban renewal through the arts
programmes
- one year study of demographics and psychographics of K Road
- visitors, workers, students,
residents
- founder of New Zealand's only private heritage awards
- centre plan developed for Onehunga
- developing heritage protection for K
Road
- development of K Road precinct
- working with police and Safer Auckland with community
designed 'OK' K Road programme and Alcohol Accord
- experienced in community based-traffic safety solutions,
managing a 24-hour entertainment precinct, planning for vandalism, facilitating
urban design and implementation, town centre branding, marketing and
facilitating equitable resource consent solutions.
