Uploaded May 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
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We follow three small business owners who used to be based in the central city and ask them the question, 'is there room for you in the central city?'
Between them, Pedro Carazo, Debbie Lawson and Deric Blacker, lost 3 businesses, 2 homes, a child, and a close friend, on February 22nd 2011.
All three owned businesses in Christchurch's central city and despite their personal losses and professional struggles, all three decided to re-establish their retail offerings, but on the outskirts of the city - Woolston, Merivale and Sydenham.
Suburbia is where they've remained, and flourished. So as the new city centre begins to take shape, Christchurch Dilemmas takes Pedro, Debbie and Deric back to Worcester, Cashel, and Tuam Streets, back to where their premises once stood - to a place they no longer like to linger - and asks each of them if they'll ever return here?
Is there a place for small business in Christchurch's new city centre?
CHCH Dilemmas S2 Ep1
See more videos at chchdilemmas.co.nz or on our Facebook page facebook.com/chchdilemmas
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We follow three small business owners who used to be based in the central city and ask them the question, 'is there room for you in the central city?'
Between them, Pedro Carazo, Debbie Lawson and Deric Blacker, lost 3 businesses, 2 homes, a child, and a close friend, on February 22nd 2011.
All three owned businesses in Christchurch's central city and despite their personal losses and professional struggles, all three decided to re-establish their retail offerings, but on the outskirts of the city - Woolston, Merivale and Sydenham.
Suburbia is where they've remained, and flourished. So as the new city centre begins to take shape, Christchurch Dilemmas takes Pedro, Debbie and Deric back to Worcester, Cashel, and Tuam Streets, back to where their premises once stood - to a place they no longer like to linger - and asks each of them if they'll ever return here?
Is there a place for small business in Christchurch's new city centre?
CHCH Dilemmas S2 Ep1
