Rangiuru Business Park is situated in one of New Zealand’s fastest-growing cities, offering enviable Golden Triangle access and positioning itself as one of the most progressive industrial hubs in the region. For industries and businesses looking to the future, Rangiuru presents a wealth of opportunities. The first 14ha (Stage 1a) of the 148ha development began being actively marketed in July 2024 and has had strong enquiry to date. It offers premium sites for ambitious or expanding exporters, importers, distributors, and manufacturers.
“For anyone keen to do business in this booming region, Rangiuru Business Park is hard to beat – it’s just 25 minutes from the country’s busiest Port and sits alongside State Highway 2 with a dedicated motorway interchange, providing excellent access to all major North Island and global markets,” says Lyndon Settle, CEO of Quayside Holdings, which owns 40 percent of the park and leads its development.
However, the park’s prime location isn’t its only attraction. It is designed to accommodate the construction of high-quality, large-footprint industrial facilities, serving as a hub that will unlock future growth and enhance potential – not just for businesses, but for the entire community.
At Rangiuru Business Park, Quayside’s value-add spans a diverse range of areas, from earthworks (reducing environmental impact and development costs by relocating large volumes of earth to a neighboring whenua Māori block) to social procurement. In 2020, Quayside received $18 million through the Provincial Growth Fund, providing seed capital for the Tauranga Eastern Link motorway interchange, which connects the park to State Highway 2. Quayside has collaborated with iwi partners and mana whenua to develop a cultural masterplan, ensuring the cultural heritage, values, and interests of Tapuika (mana whenua for the Rangiuru area) are respected and integrated into the park’s design.
Within the Business Park is a 48-hectare Stormwater Pond that will service the entire industrial park. It has been purposefully designed with a dual purpose – functional stormwater management and wetland development; enriching environmental, cultural and social outcomes.
Half of what will eventually be planted in the full expanse of the Stormwater Pond, are wetland plants, which will aid the filtration of the stormwater runoff as it flows into the Kaituna River. This is a key environment outcome and a lofty goal placed on the landscape and ecological designers by Quayside and Mana Whenua.
Over stages 1a and 1b, we are working with the commercial arm of the Tapuika Iwi Authority to plant 117,000 plants this planting season with another 170,000 in the ground by October 2025. Enabling Tapuika to use this opportunity to upskill some of their people whilst ensuring Quayside fulfils some project obligations, has mutually
benefitted both organisations and strengthened a relationship built on whanaungatanga.
The design also features a track to enable visitors to cycle or walk around the full Pond weaving past both the shallow and deep wetland areas
and into the built-up dryland and tree islands, home to groups of Kahikatea, Totara, Miro and Matai, Manuka and Harakeke to name a few. At its full capacity, these uru rākau will welcome back to the whenua and awa, bird, insect and fish endemic species lost when the land was converted to agricultural use many years ago – another lofty goal that will be celebrated jointly with Iwi when achieved.
The cultural masterplan is currently in design with Tapuika, and we are excited to build in concepts and cultural elements that acknowledge the history of Rangiuru. Linking to the stories of the past where hapū and whanau worked together to provide sustenance and economic growth
through their market gardens. Looking at both the industrial park but also the stormwater pond as areas where we could recognise these stories and values, the designs will come to life over the next 24 months as each stage is reached.
Quayside’s vision of Invested in our Future – Mauri Ora Roa has been a constant during this project and when the stormwater comes to life over the next decade, that vision will have been achieved.
Register now for Stage 1b at rangiuru.co.nz or by calling 07 960 2600.