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As a result of the development of the Auranga Smart Town the region is set to benefit from over $2 billion of public and privately funded infrastructure planned by the Made Group for delivery in the next decade. This infrastructure includes new electric trains and stations, increased capacity on State Highway 1 between Papakura and the Bombay Hills, improvements to State Highway 22, and a new southern route via an upgraded Mill Road corridor.

This Smart Town development will dramatically improve travel times and improve access to employment at the airports, Highbrook, the CBD, and later on, the Drury South Industrial Park. Contents [hide] 1 History

2 People

History[edit]

The area now known as Auranga was formerly a sparsely populated rural area consisting of small farming plots. Between 2015 and 2016 Made Group brought up the small rural properties and consolidated these to form one parcel of land for the development of the new smart town.

People[edit]

The Auranga population was predominantly European as at 2006, with Maori and Asian ethnicity. The project is headed up by the New Zealand entrepreneur and visionary Charles Ma.