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Riverside Market opened on 28 September 2019. [1] [2] The market was founded by Mike Percasky, Kris Inglis and Richard Peebles, who modelled the design on food markets in Melbourne and Copenhagen. [3] They had previously had success with a similar location in Christchurch, called the Little High Eatery. [4]
Countdown was an Australian-owned New Zealand full-service supermarket chain and subsidiary of Woolworths New Zealand, itself a subsidiary of Australia's Woolworths Group. It is one of two supermarket chains in New Zealand, the other being Foodstuffs. Until the brand's rebranding, there were 194 Countdown stores, with 61 in Auckland. [1]
The naming of New Brighton was apparently done on the 'spur of the moment' by William Fee, an early settler of the area. When Guise Brittan, the Waste Lands Commissioner, visited the area in December 1860, he was recognised and Fee chalked 'New Brighton' on a wooden plank, supposedly in reference to his fellow settler Stephen Brooker, who had come from New Brighton in England. [4]
Oversimplified map of the Christchurch Metro Network New route 97 at the Pegasus terminus. 5/10/2020. On 8 December 2014, a new bus network was launched offering three types of bus services. Five colour-coded frequent bus routes (the High Frequency Services) run through Christchurch's major road corridors, connecting people to popular destinations.
South New Brighton School is a full primary school catering for years 1 to 8. [13] [14] [15] It had a roll of 419 as of August 2024. [16]In 1917, the New Brighton school committee was asked to establish a school in South New Brighton since fifty-four children resided in South New Brighton.
The Saturday market on Upper Gardner Street. Today North Laine is a thriving residential, conservation and retail area of central Brighton featuring largely period (from late Regency to early Victorian) terraced housing such as Kensington Place and Tidy Street plus bohemian independent shopping areas. Some streets combine retail and residential.
For 30 years, the New Brighton community rallied for another pier to be built. The Pier and Foreshore Society had campaigned to save the original pier, and the group continued lobbying for a new pier. When NZ$2m had been raised, this was matched by funding from Christchurch City Council and a new pier was designed using reinforced concrete. The ...
The new owners closed Smiths City's operations in Auckland, where it had struggled against Australian rival chains like Harvey Norman and Freedom Furniture. [16] In June 2020, Smiths City opened its first new store after going into receivership in Petone. The store is the only store in the Wellington region following the closures of the ...