Facilities
Purpose-built in parklike grounds
foodeast-haumako will provide you and your clients with an environment that empowers inspiration, collaboration, innovation and commercialisation.
Flexible facilities
Collaborative spaces, contemporary offices, bookable meeting rooms and outdoor relaxing and meeting places. All with a communal café facility at its heart in a fabulous rural setting just five minutes’ drive from Hastings city.
At the ready
Construction
Construction of the facility is due be completed in March 2024.
Funding and management
The planning and construction phases of foodeast-haumako are funded by The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment MBIE), Hawke’s Bay Regional Investment Company, Hastings District Council, and Progressive Meats. It is owned by a Council Controlled Trading Organisation (CCTO).
It will be operated as a commercial enterprise, focused on providing services to businesses to enable them to develop and commercialise high-value products in the food, beverage and agri-tech sectors.