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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]
Number of Auckland stores Parent company Founded Head office 2degrees: ... 1880 on Queen Street, Auckland [269] Auckland CBD [269] Smith's Sports Shoes: Shoe store [270]
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 ...
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]
In 2022, St Pierre's closed two stores in Pakuranga and Queen Street, Auckland. By February 2023, St Pierre's Sushi had 69 stores across New Zealand including new stores in Tauranga, Ashburton, Nelson and Karaka in South Auckland. To boost growth, Katsoulis confirmed that St Pierre's had introduced bento bowls to its menu and self-service kiosks.
The Auckland Town Hall, c. 1910. The row of shops to the left would later become the first premises of Trilby Yates. The label was founded by sisters Trilby and Julia Yates in the mid-1920s. [3] Trilby, who was the older by nine years, had trained as a milliner at The Bon Marché, an emporium founded in Auckland in 1904. [3]
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 CBD remains attractive to shops, partially due to the very high pedestrian numbers on the main shopping streets like Queen Street, where footfalls are estimated to be up to 10 times as high as on Broadway in Newmarket, seen as Queen Street's closest rival. [13] Auckland CBD has a higher share of employment in large firms than other areas in ...