“New Kawerau sites hoped to drive town's economic revival”, 25 August 2022

Six greenfield sites for lease in a new industrial subdivision in Kawerau offer businesses a stake in the economic revival of the former Bay of Plenty mill town…

Owned by the [Indigenous-led] Putauaki Trust, the subdivision is zoned for light to medium industry, and is expected to bring new businesses and jobs to the geothermal energy hotspot which was previously dominated by the former Tasman paper mil…

“The trustees made the business decision to develop this land for the purpose of creating jobs for the local community and for our own descendants of the trust,” [the trust´s general manager O´Brien] said....

O’Brien said the development of the subdivision itself had already provided employment for up to 100 people over the life of the project.... [and] the location offered a unique opportunity to harness renewable resources and the area’s geothermal energy....

Reid said the estate’s neighbours included renewable energy giant Mercury’s 100-megawatt Kawerau geothermal power plant, along with a Putauaki Trust dairy farm and the Waiū Dairy processing plant, which is owned by the trust and other Māori businesses along with Japanese-owned company Cedenco.