What a pack of nay-sayers. Without some sort of progress report from Christchurch to say that the processes are in motion to rebuld the city, the money will stop flowing, the big corporate machine will abandon Christchurch, people will lose their jobs, Christchurch will become a back water country hick town not worth saving.

Whatever your problems with the process you may have, suck it up and stay, or pack up and leave. Stop having your little whinge, it's getting a little tired. We all have the same issues, how you deal with it determines your ability to overcome the issues.

Christchurch / Canterbury will continue to have earthquakes, that is inevitable. New Zealand will always have earthquakes, snow, storms, floods etc. Learn to deal with it or bugger off.

Why don't all those who are so negative...Just Leave. Let the strong remain which would be better for Christchurch all round! Go and complain somewhere else.

You would need rocks in your head to go back to the CBD let alone stay in CHCH! Those so-called geologists only last month told you that the quakes/aftershocks or whatever they are being told to call them now said, that the western quakes (Darfield) were settling down and they were all but gone. Yeah right! 4.6 yesterday or was that just a train!!! Whose going to pay for the next round???

Oh the irony of it being a real estate office with so many being unable to find somehwere to live, perhaps they can put bunks in!

I find this very encouraging. I, for one, am chomping at the bit to get back to working in the central city! Not only would I work in a four-storey building, I'd go back in a heartbeat to my own seven-storey offices. We're not all afraid.

Could someone verify for me why residential homes in the red zone cant be rebuilt, but in the city they can. Lives were put at risk when they first built up the city, they had the info then. Then, after the September earthquake more lives were put at risk and lost thanks to the 'get back in the city asap' and the shoddy lazy building codes. Stop cutting corners, do it once, do it right!

#1 a survey has already gone out to most people who used to work in the CBD or know someone who does. Ive completed this survey and have no problem working in a 4 storey building. And yes i did used to work in the CBD so ive seen what can happen first hand. But we need rebuilds to move on. People need to realise that commercial insurance companies are different to residential ones, so putting a stop on the CBD rebuild isnt going to make your rebuild go faster unfortunately.

Ten points to The Press for trying to give some 'upbeat news', however, for those of us still living in this nighmare, we don't buy into this 'rebuild'. I'm sure tht there will be lots of photos taken in front of this building - perhaps in the hope that they can convince more people to pay the extra to build here. If the people in the east (and I also mean from Sumner, Redcliffs, Mount Pleasant and through to Huntsbury) are not sorted soon, there won't be many residents left to visit the CBD.

A bit of PR here - 'it's all good here in ChCh - honest'. Sorry, we don't buy into it. While the people are still trying to recover, the city will not recover. It's about time that the CCC, EQC and CERA put all their energies into rebuilding the residents lives. Perhaps then, they would get excited about one building going up.

I took CERA's survey, not as a tenant or an owner, but as someone who used to shop in the city. I wanted to be able to leave a comment or give a vote as to whether I would still be coming back to the city to shop (no way). I was able to do this and the survey simply took my vote as one of being happy with the city plan.