PHOTO: JOHN KIRK-ANDERSON/STUFF –Antony Gough’s $140m riverfront development The Terrace will open by March.

Christchurch residents and visitors will be able to enjoy new riverside bars, central city cinemas, a farmers’ market, a new swimming pool complex, and a new library in 2018.

More than half a billion dollars worth of developments are nearing completion and are set to open across the city this year.

Antony Gough’s $140 million riverfront development The Terrace is almost complete and a new $50m Hoyts cinema development on the corner of Colombo and Lichfield streets is also due to open this year.

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