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| 30 April 2000 |
Te Irirangi Drive is opened. The $44 million, 7.8 kilometre four-lane arterial route, which links Manukau City Centre with the new Botany Town Centre, is named after the nineteenth century Ngai Tai chief, Tara Te Irirangi. |
| 4 August 2001 |
Tupu-Dawson Road Youth Library is opened. |
| 4 December 2001 |
Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate is officially launched, amalgamating Clydemore Primary School, Bairds Intermediate School, and Hillary College. (The new school’s combined facilities are officially opened on 29 May 2004.) |
| 19 December 2002 |
Manukau City Council imposes a liquor ban at the Otara Town Centre. |
| 19 August 2004 |
New Zealand’s first Computer Clubhouse Trust is launched at Clover Park Middle School, Otara. |
| 26 May 2006 |
Fresh Gallery is opened at Otara Town Centre. A partnership between Manukau City Council and the Otara Economic Development Trust, this aims to showcase the work of new and emerging artists. |
| 1 September 2006 |
The Otara 274 Youth Core project is launched, funding a team of youth workers to help combat gang violence in the area. |
| 29 September 2006 |
A new police youth action team begins operations targeting youth gang activity in Otara, East Tamaki, Howick, Pakuranga and other eastern parts of the city. |
| 17 April 2007 |
The Highbrook motorway interchange and Highbrook Drive are opened, allowing direct access from the southern motorway to the Highbrook Business Park in East Tamaki. |
| 9 March 2007 |
The Highbrook Park recreational reserve on the Waiouru Peninsula, East Tamaki, is officially opened. The 40-hectare park alongside the Tamaki River incorporates the Pukekiwiriki volcanic crater. |
| 13 October 2007 |
Otara lawyer Len Brown is elected the fourth mayor of Manukau City. |
| 11 October 2008 |
The new Ormiston Road bridge is officially opened. The innovative cable-stayed $6.5m structure crosses a tributary of the Otara Stream. |
| March 2009 |
Director Michael Bennett begins filming a new feature film, Matariki, set in Otara. |
| 26 November 2009 |
An event ‘Celebrating Otara in Action’ is held at the Otara Music and Arts Centre, recognizing more than five decades of community initiatives and activism. |
| 31 October 2010 (forthcoming) |
Manukau City is abolished with the creation of a new enlarged Auckland City. |
Copyright © Manukau Libraries 2009. ‘Otara: 55 Years of Community Life’ was compiled by Bruce Ringer for Manukau Libraries in November 2009. Additional pictorial material was added in September 2010. This text may be freely used for purposes of private study and research and for non-commercial publication providing that the compiler and Manukau Libraries are duly acknowledged.
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