Youth Hub
The youth hub precinct is located next to Masterton's skate park and encompasses two buildings.
- The hub itself which was created by repurposing an existing portable building from the library site.
- A permaloo which has two accessible toilets.
The project ran from August to November 2024 with the official opening on Friday 15 November.
The work was completed by local contractors who contributed discounted labour and materials. They are – Waterwise, Festival Hire, Rigg Zschokke, WaiSpark, Silverwood Architects, Wairarapa Treescaping, Harrisons Carpet and Flooring, Loader Construction Engineering, and Green By Nature.
The project has also been supported financially by Trust House.
Project History
Councillors had approved $538,570 for the project as part for the 2021-31 long-term plan, with a $120,000 contribution from the Ministry for Youth Development and Department of Internal Affairs.
Council signed a contract with Podular in 2021 to supply a youth hub building and construction was meant to start in early 2024. Podular went into liquidation in 2022 and the $260K paid is still to be recovered.
We began exploring other options so that we could still deliver a facility at the skatepark using the remaining budget. It was decided that a portacom building - that had previously been used as the Archive’s temporary home, would move from the site next to the library, to the skate park.
