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Alex and Corban Walls are big ideas people, and when they chanced on an empty section in Island Bay on Auckland’s North Shore that to others may have presented only challenges, they inevitably saw opportunity. Having grown up nearby, to Alex this coastal area with pockets of native bush has always been home, so on discovering a site that their budget could manageably stretch to, she and Corban jumped

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