The Te Mata Park Trust is working with various charitable trusts to secure $500,000 to develop and restore 8.5ha boughtthrough the "One Giant Chance" crowdfunding campaign.
The campaign raised a whopping $1.25m.
Trust manager Emma Buttle said the total project cost was $1,750,000, and having secured $1.25m, it now hoped to get another $500,000 to help fence the boundaries, get resource consent, buy 29,000 native trees and other work. "We intend to establish tracks, clear exotic trees off the land, assess sites of Māori significance; there are also costs involved with signs and fencing, and the cost of putting plants in the ground."
The trust had already secured $52,000 from local charitable trusts, she said.
Of that, $41,000 would be spent on signsthroughout the new land and existing park.