In Tauranga's CBD, heavily-laden trucks lurch through a gate and a digger scrapes at a gaping hole in the earth.
It's the start of a big project that stems from the most expensive building consent granted in the city last month, at $6.5 million.
It is here, on the corner of Willow and Harington sts, that a four-level office building is about to take shape in time to be opened early next year.
In the site's portable office, Brunel Group construction director Paul Anning points at plans showing that the hole is up to 4m deep in places. He says that its base of stone has been compacted and that its walls of pre-cast concrete will placed next Thursday. Then the workers will start constructing columns. Then beams. Then spans between the beams. Then there will be concrete. And steel.
"The thing that's really neat is that the outlook is quite diverse," Mr Anning says, gesturing in a circle around him. "You've got the city, the park, the seaviews - it's a phenomenal working environment.'
The group is designing and building the complex for owners JWL Investment Trust.
As a mark of Tauranga's booming demand for space, the top floor of the building has already been leased a year in advance of its opening date, scheduled for early 2018.
And the group is busy elsewhere, too, having just finished building childcare centres, a funeral home, a pizza shop and a gym.
But despite complaints from some developers that Tauranga City Council's building consent process has been taking too long, Mr Anning says all went smoothly on this new project.
"They seem to have got it together now," he says. "I'm impressed."
A spokesman for the trust, who would not be named, said he expected the building to house three tenants on the upper levels and a restaurant or cafe on the ground floor.
"It should be a nice addition to that end of town."