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BINGO, kek
The area that was rebuilt( Red Zone) included a business thats connected to Disney, Dreamworks, Sony.
And Google is deeply involved.
About 1,100 commercial buildings have been pulled down or are awaiting demolition in Christchurch’s central business area following the February 2011 earthquake and an earlier quake on September 2010. About 6,000 businesses were forced to move to new premises, 10,000 homes were destroyed and a further 25,000 homes faced repair bills of more than NZ$100,000, according to the CECC.
But amid all the rubble and dust, which sweeps across the town centre on windy days, there are signs of entrepreneurial activity taking root, in part driven by necessity in the aftermath of the earthquake.
Fashion retailers have squeezed into shipping containers, pop-up shops have colonised recently cleared sites, and street art and sculptures provide a splash of colour to a city dominated by scaffolding and building sites. Businesses forced to leave the city centre after the earthquakes are slowly beginning to creep back. “In those early days after the earthquake it was chaos. We had 40 staff with no equipment or place to work from and lots of orders to fulfil,” says Henry Lane, president of business development at Cerebral Fix, a video games developer with clients that include Disney, Dreamworks and Sony.
Cerebral Fix was based in Christchurch’s central business district, which was largely cordoned off as an exclusion zone for two years after the earthquake. Like many other companies, the games developer scrambled to find alternative accommodation and ended up in a shed near the airport with several other companies.
Conditions were cramped in the co-working space but it quickly became a “buzzing hive of collaboration” as employees working for these companies in exile forged personal networks and swapped ideas, according to Lane. This experience sowed the seeds of Epic, Christchurch’s Enterprise Precinct Innovation Centre, a collaborative work space based in the business district that houses 25 technology companies. The two-storey campus building is based on designs provided free of charge by Google. Cisco Systems installed the telecoms networks and some funding was provided by the government.
https://www.ft.com/content/85fcff96-2d4f-11e6-bf8d-26294ad519fc