In July 2024 a sponsorship deal for the next ten years was struck with the Telecommunication company, One New Zealand, and the venue will initially be known as One New Zealand Stadium at Te Kaha. The name gifted to Christchurch’s new Stadium by Ngāi Tūāhuriri, means “enduring strength”.
​Te Kaha stadium is on budget ($683 million) and on time to open in April 2026. Project Director Kent Summerfield attributes this to strong relationships between the Client and Contractor teams, having the right people in key roles, and a Contract model that best suits the Project, including sensible allocation of risk.
​With only 39 accessible car parks on site patrons could be offered an integrated ticket to include designated public transport within their event pass. There will be a very high level of pedestrian traffic to the arena as patrons move to and from complementary spaces within the CBD.

This purpose-built arena is versatile and able to accommodate a variety of different sporting and non-sporting events, and the replaceable turf system means these can occur in close proximity to each other.

The venue will be all electric, including the cooking facilities (where gas has traditionally been used), and there is potential for solar power in the future, either via panels installed on the solid roof or a solar farm.

The covered arena will be naturally ventilated for patron comfort (with parts of the Western Stand air conditioned) and will feature goods and passenger lifts, escalators and 32 diverse food and beverage offerings.
To provide the right growing conditions, light and warmth and moisture, for natural turf the turf has its own subterranean ventilation system. Turf can be cut out and replaced from a turf farm.
​Player facilities include large warm-up spaces, four changing rooms, hydrotherapy pools and a number of other supporting areas (e.g. medical rooms, coach’s briefing).