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A man whose business sat right next to a half-finished apartment block is still waiting to be paid $30,000, after ageing concrete collapsed and blocked his driveway.
The Epsom Central Apartments Project halted six years ago, after Auckland Council found it had not complied with building consent.
The original partnership, Epsom Central Apartments LP, was put into receivership in 2022, and purchased by Xiao Liu, the director at the time, of a company named Reeheng Limited, in September 2023.
In September 2024, RNZ spoke to community members and business owners who described the building as a "blight on the Epsom landscape", which at one point attracted ra
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