Everyone thought, 'why build houses there?' Not anymore..

Chris Meehan has had some explaining to do of late. His property development company Winton has, until recently, focused on well-known places like Wanaka and Queenstown, Hobsonville Point or the newly opened eateries of the city’s Queens Rise. 

But when it comes to one of the company’s newest projects, a master-planned community on the edge of Te Kauwhata, people are puzzled.

'They’ve driven past the sign on the highway to Hamilton, but nobody been there,” says Meehan. “They get here and see the lake and they’re blown away.'

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