the NZ Transport Agency. In the end, the Crown built the Bus Interchange and it opened on 25 May 2015. The cost to the Crown was NZ$53m and as part of the global settlement between the Crown and the city council, the building was transferred to the city council for $23m in October 2019. Innovation Precinct The aim of the Innovation Precinct (Māori: ) was to encourage collaboration between innovative businesses and research organisations, thus improving productivity for Christchurch and New Zealand. The general location of the Innovation Precinct was the area around High Street, where the South Frame and the East Frame meet. At the time of the Blueprint's release, the EPIC (Enterprise Precinct and Innovation Campus) project was already underway and proximity to the Christchurch Polytech (now known as Ara Institute of Canterbury) was seen as a benefit. The largest tech business that has moved into the area is Vodafone, which established its South Island headquarters in the InnoV8 building in 2016. Another building that houses a tech company is Orbica on Lichfield Street. As of 2020, about half of the land between Lichfield Street, Poplar Street, Tuam Street, and Manchester Street remains as gravel car parks. Timeline The timeline graphic is based on the indicative project delivery schedule contained in the Blueprint published in July 2012, a pamphlet published in November 2014 plus the status as of July 2020. None of the projects were delivered as per the originally published indicative project delivery schedule. The first project to be completed was Hagley Oval (September 2014). The original schedule saw all projects where a delivery date had been specified completed by March 2017; at that point in time just three of the seventeen projects had been completed (the Bus Interchange was the second project (May 2015) to be finished, and the Earthquake Memorial the third project in February 2017). Ngāi Tahu abandoned its anchor project—Te Puna Ahurea Cultural Centre—in April 2014. As of July 2020, neither the Square, the Residential Demonstration Project, nor the stadium have been started, and only the stadium has a confirmed project status. Footnotes Notes References Christchurch Central City 2011 Christchurch earthquake Urban planning in New Zealand Urban development