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The Queen Street and Wellesley Street West facades of the Queen Street store in the Auckland CBD. One of the oldest surviving retail businesses in New Zealand, it was established in 1880 by Ulster-born Marianne Smith as a drapers and millinery shop, [2] [3] and is the oldest-surviving department store in Auckland. [4]
The statistical areas of Queen Street, which encompasses a full block either side of Queen Street north of Wellesley Street, and Queen Street South West, which includes the area west of Queen Street to Vincent Street and Pitt Street south of Wellesley Street, cover 0.40 km 2 (0.15 sq mi) [2] and had an estimated population of 4,910 as of June 2024, [3] with a population density of 12,275 ...
Name Retail format Main products Number of stores Number of Auckland stores Parent company Founded Head office 2degrees: Electronics store [1]: Mobile phones [1]: 56 [1]: 20 [1] ...
In 1887, as New Zealand was entering a depression, the store hosted a spring fashion parade; one of the first in Auckland. [4] In 1901 the company was made public, and became Milne & Choyce Ltd. Henry Choyce was the managing director of the company. [4] [7] The store moved again in 1908, this time to 131-141 Queen Street. [4]
The following is a list of notable shopping centres in New Zealand. For comparison, the largest mall in Canada, the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton , Alberta , Canada has a retail space of 350,000 m 2 .
The Dilworth Building is a heritage mixed-use (residential apartments and shops on the ground floor) building at the corner of Customs Street and Queen Street in the Auckland CBD, New Zealand. The building by William Gummer & Reginald Ford [ 1 ] was constructed between 1925 and 1927, and is listed as a Category I Historic building by Heritage ...
The area of today's CBD was the site of the original European settlement of Auckland, oriented along the coastline and then Queen Street, in a southward direction. From those origins, it has grown progressively, and become much more densely built-up, now being an area of high-rise buildings mainly used for commercial and retail uses.
A shopping street [1] or shopping district [2] is a designated road or quarter of a municipality that is composed of retail establishments (such as stores, boutiques, restaurants, and shopping complexes). Such areas may be pedestrian-oriented, [3] with street-side buildings and wide sidewalks.