Te Ahu Passes With Flying Colours

Tiny tweaks have been needed in a few places, but Te Ahu Centre has otherwise passed its first week in business with flying colours.

Te Ahu Trust opened the centre in Kaitaia for business on Monday to test systems before a grand opening in March or April.

Trust general manager Mark Osborne says the building’s systems are performing well.

The Far North District Council has delivered library, i-Site and customer services without any major hitches and a new cafe has been very popular.

“We’ve had to make tiny tweaks here and there, but otherwise everything has gone exactly as it should have.”

Work in the coming weeks will be aimed at completing the Far North Regional Museum's exhibition space and landscaping outdoor areas.

Mr Osborne asks the community to bear with the trust as it completes access ways and signage in the lead-up to the grand opening, the date of which is yet to be set.

Visitors to Te Ahu can enter through the atrium entrance on Matthews Avenue or from an eastern entrance.

This is accessed from a large new car park next to the A&P grounds on South Road.

People can also enter via The Little Theatre/Te Ahu Cinema on Matthews Avenue when Centre opening hours coincide with film screenings or theatre performances.

The trust is offering guided hourly tours of the almost-finished facility during the Kaitaia A & P Show on February 25.

Interested people should be in the atrium on the hour from 10am to take one of the tours which will run hourly.