ACG development manager Barbara Burns said a decision had not yet been made about whether the school would directly employ cleaners, caterers and maintenance staff or contract out the roles but the total number of people employed by the school in some capacity was likely to be about 100.
When the school opened next year, she expected there would be between 11 and 14 full-time positions and a number of part-time employees.
The new Countdown in Bureta Park would also employ about 80 local people when it opened in October.
Store manager James Liddell was in the process of recruiting a senior management team of about 30 from other stores in Tauranga, which would create as many vacancies throughout the city. The Bureta Park team would then look to employ about 40 to 50 entry level staff to work at the store.
Mr Liddell, who used to be store manager of Countdown Metro in Auckland CBD and has been with the company for more than 30 years after starting as an apprentice butcher, encouraged others to see a job at Countdown as more than a way to pay the bills.
"I started off with a trade and ended up with a career," he said.
Bethlehem Birthing and Medical Centre development manager Philip Lindsey said an average of 20 staff would be employed at the complex at any one time. Of those roles, about 70 per cent would be new positions while the rest of the staff would have moved from other premises in Tauranga.
Twenty-five new jobs, many of those highly specialised, needed to be filled to run the Kathleen Kilgour Centre next to Tauranga Hospital. Project manager Lisa-Jane Dench said most of the staff hired to work at the radiotherapy centre would come from outside the region. Three positions had been filled by locals and a couple more were still possible.
Westpac Centre development manager Duarne Lankshear said about 80 staff would work in the building, which was being built on the corner of Cameron Rd and 12th Ave. Most staff would move from their current office in the Westpac building but there was space for another tenant with about 30 staff.
Priority One chief executive Andrew Coker said the creation of new jobs was always good particularly when they were high-paying, skilled roles. "We need to get semi-skilled and skilled people and pay them accordingly," he said.
It was the skilled positions that would really boost the Tauranga economy and attract more people, Mr Coker said.
The new head office of Brother International had hired four locals including the new chief financial officer and would bring about 40 staff to the region from Wellington, he said.
