Work started on painting Otago's $200 million Forsyth Barr
Stadium yesterday. And, surprisingly, red and black were the
most popular colour choices for the new home of Otago rugby.
The Forsyth Barr Stadium swallowed another $1.8 million
yesterday, and the Carisbrook Stadium Trust and its
consultants were labelled "either misleading or incompetent"
for budgeting far less than that for the company set up to
run it.
The new head of the Forsyth Barr Stadium has taken rugby
officials to task for the "arrogance" he says they have shown
the sport's potential supporters.
The much-vaunted multipurpose nature of the Forsyth Barr
Stadium has been both heralded by proponents and mocked by
opponents as the building rapidly takes shape on Dunedin's
waterfront.
Few would argue Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium is one of
the city's most ambitious - and controversial - civic
projects. But what about the man at the centre of it all?
Reporters Chris Morris and David Loughrey talk
to David Davies about his past and his plans to make the
stadium work.
