The Herald’s Project Auckland 2022 publishes today as Auckland’s city centre reaches a “turning point”. The report celebrates Auckland’s reopening for business after multiple lockdowns and constraints caused by the pandemic, and, takes a deep dive into plans to “reactivate” the city centre. The plans are impressive, and as their authors — Heart of the City and Auckland Unlimited — …

Reimagining Business is not a catchcry. It is a gift in time when the dislocation caused by a global pandemic, now running into its third year, is catalysing change. In the Herald’s Dynamic Business Report we take a look at how to maintain momentum in challenging times. Auckland Business Chamber CEO Michael Barnett —whose business organisation has been in the …

It is no mistake that in recent years the Infrastructure portfolio has also been held by the Minister of Finance. Infrastructure has rightly been described as the “backbone of economic growth”. Resilient infrastructure that caters for growing populations is critical to the workings of a modern economy. Everything from transport, energy, water and the construction of houses, commercial and industrial …