Eden Park
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@Nepia The loan is Eden Park's but if it is defaulted on, the Council gets to pay it.
And in the mean time Eden Park Trust has to pay or defer the interest probably at a rate a bank would charge a precarious trust.
Where as all NZ Local Government Authorities have an excellent credit rating via a pooled credit thingamajig and pay low interest.
Could be saving millions a year.
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@Nepia The loan is Eden Park's but if it is defaulted on, the Council gets to pay it.
And in the mean time Eden Park Trust has to pay or defer the interest probably at a rate a bank would charge a precarious trust.
Where as all NZ Local Government Authorities have an excellent credit rating via a pooled credit thingamajig and pay low interest.
Could be saving millions a year.
Eden Park Trust is a registered charity with its financial statements available here: https://www.register.charities.govt.nz/Charity/CC32802
Going by recent statements, their bank loans are between 2.82% and 4.14% (total bank interest: 2018 - $1.463 million, 2017 - $1.758 million, 2016 - $2.285 million), and 2.43% for the Council loans, so while it would make a difference (around $500K), it would not be the difference between solvency or not. Probably helps that the bank is also a sponsor (ASB).
Having looked over the various financial statements, tickets + membership ($14+ million p.a.) more than pay for the costs of actually running the events (~$9+ million p.a., being direct costs, staff) and contributions to ACA and ARU ($2 million) - the principal issue is depreciation i.e. replacement costs over time, not interest or anything else. It's over $8 million a year, so unless they can find a way to pay for that, they are in dire straits, even if all loans were forgiven/paid by Council.
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@Nepia The loan is Eden Park's but if it is defaulted on, the Council gets to pay it.
And in the mean time Eden Park Trust has to pay or defer the interest probably at a rate a bank would charge a precarious trust.
Where as all NZ Local Government Authorities have an excellent credit rating via a pooled credit thingamajig and pay low interest.
Could be saving millions a year.
Eden Park Trust is a registered charity with its financial statements available here: https://www.register.charities.govt.nz/Charity/CC32802
Going by recent statements, their bank loans are between 2.82% and 4.14% (total bank interest: 2018 - $1.463 million, 2017 - $1.758 million, 2016 - $2.285 million), and 2.43% for the Council loans, so while it would make a difference (around $500K), it would not be the difference between solvency or not. Probably helps that the bank is also a sponsor (ASB).
Having looked over the various financial statements, tickets + membership ($14+ million p.a.) more than pay for the costs of actually running the events (~$9+ million p.a., being direct costs, staff) and contributions to ACA and ARU ($2 million) - the principal issue is depreciation i.e. replacement costs over time, not interest or anything else. It's over $8 million a year, so unless they can find a way to pay for that, they are in dire straits, even if all loans were forgiven/paid by Council.
Are they really though?
In 50 years time, when it is time to turn that depreciation from a paper loss into a real world cost, the loan/costs probably will indeed be paid for by the council. Whether at Eden Park or a stadium somewhere else in the city if the stadium rationalisation happens.Where not talking $8 million a year of degradation of plastic seats, and some guttering etc, its a paper loss - that huge concrete structure is $8 million less value than the year before until it reaches end of life.
Eden Park prior to its redevelopment was a 1960s stadium. The Trust could afford to redevelop the west terrace in 1992 and the North Stand in 1999. The fact that they couldn't cover the cost of redeveloping the South stand and East Terraces in 2011 is not something I'd think they were panicing about in 1975 when they looked at the depreciation on their annual report.
I'm taking a lot of the dire warning reporting with a grain of salt. Eden Park present themselves in dire straits as they want the $50 million turned into council debt so they can concentrate on the achievable target of covering their operating costs only. The various council voices present Eden Park as a white elephant if they have ambitions for a vainglorious empire-building stadium project of their own, or are sports-haters with an aversion to debt.
Currently Auckland have the best stadium in the country located in their city for the meagre cost of $10 million to their council. Albeit they don't own it. They do however own 2 other less good football stadiums with their own debt burdens .....
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@Rapido If the Council and/or Government agrees to replace parts of the Stadium as and when required, then there are no issues, basically. Not sure how likely that is with the anti-rates/tax brigade bleating at every opportunity, but in principle it would solve the problem.
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/112319438/eden-parks-future-what-the-neighbours-really-think
A mate of mine works in the stats department at Auckland Uni. He was one of the participants given the survey. He wrote to the senior editor at Stuff advising them that the survey was structured in such a way as to be biased towards this result, and it was unlikely that anything of statistical significance could be determined from it. I guess they went ahead and published anyway.
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@Stockcar86 said in Eden Park:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/112319438/eden-parks-future-what-the-neighbours-really-think
A mate of mine works in the stats department at Auckland Uni. He was one of the participants given the survey. He wrote to the senior editor at Stuff advising them that the survey was structured in such a way as to be biased towards this result, and it was unlikely that anything of statistical significance could be determined from it. I guess they went ahead and published anyway.
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Don't know where else to post this.
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@Stargazer said in Eden Park:
Don't know where else to post this.
That’s very disappointing.
Will always be Eden Park to me. Understand the new realities, but it’s still a bit upsetting.
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