Hundreds of Super City staff could soon shift to new Auckland premises held by a private Australian institutional fund.
Auckland Council appears ready to shift its headquarters to the 31-level ASB Bank Centre at 135 Albert St.
A spokeswoman said a decision was about to be made about moving staff from the 19-level Civic Building beside Aotea Square to another site.
"Auckland Council has been working through options to identify how best to secure a large, good-quality CBD office building into which it can relocate the majority of its city-based employees over the next year or two," she said. "We hope to be able to give more detail on our preferred option in the next fortnight."
The ASB building was tipped late last year as the most likely block, to be vacated next year by bank staff and OnePath, who are moving to the Wynyard Quarter on the waterfront and the ANZ Centre Tower on Albert St respectively.
