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Excerpt of Viv Beck's full Op-Ed "Great city needs beating heart", published in the New Zealand Herald's Project Auckland on Friday 5 March 2021. Click to read the full piece on the NZ Herald website. Four questions have been raised with me consistently...

Auckland Council’s Long Term Plan is open for feedback until 22 March. As well as proposed general rates increases, included are options for the reinstatement of the Accommodation Provider Targeted Rate, paused last year to due to COVID, as well as...

1 - 31 May 2021 New this year, in line with the NZ International Comedy Festival, Heart of the City will be promoting Cheap & Cheerful food and drink offers ($15 or less) from city centre café, bar and restaurant businesses. Offers must...

Hospitality operators - do you have an outdoor trading license? Did you know that Auckland Council can extend your licence expiry date for the period of time Auckland has been at raised Alert Levels? At this point in time, we've spent 156 days in...

The updated construction start date for the Viaduct's Project WAVE, a trial connecting the cycling route from Nelson Street to Quay Street, is 14 April. Additional loading zones, pedestrian crossing points, and a one-way system also form part of the...

Heart of the City's submission to Auckland Council's 10-Year Budget 2021/2031: submitted 22 March 2021. Heart of the City is the business association for Auckland’s city centre. We represent the interests of businesses and property owners in the...

Heart of the City is clear that they want to see a beautiful and well functioning Queen Street but the Auckland Transport plans released today are a fail, and no one is going to win. Heart of the City Chief Executive Viv Beck says that “Queen Street...

With the reopening of the CPO as the main entrance for the Britomart Transport Centre in early April came some new retail offerings in the beautifully renovated heritage space. Artisan breads from OM Goodness, beautiful blooms from the Britomart Florist...

Aucklanders have only two days to give feedback to Auckland Transport’s proposal for Queen Street, and Heart of the City is urging Aucklanders to tell Auckland Transport what they think. “We’ve heard from a wide range of Aucklanders with different needs...

Heart of the City (HOTC) is the business association for Auckland’s city centre and we represent the interests of businesses and property owners. We are committed to the growth and success of the city centre as a vibrant, accessible, safe and welcoming...

From 1 - 31 May, over 80 Heart of the City cafés, bars and eateries will be serving up Cheap & Cheerful Eats for $15 or less. Whether diners are in the mood for dumplings or burgers, a coffee and something sweet or something salty with a cold beer,...

A sophisticated retail, hospitality and commercial transformation has been completed at 246 Queen Street, an eight-storey example of 1960s architecture in the mid-city block between Victoria and Wellesley Streets. Designers Fearon Hay...

Another skyline transforming addition to the city, completed early in 2021. The Pacifica is a 57-level apartment tower in the Fort Street area featuring a boutique hotel and a new laneway connecting Commerce and Gore Streets with shopping and dining...

The 36th America's Cup was held in Auckland city centre's Wynyard Quarter, with the event base spread across Wynyard Point, Halsey Street wharf and Hobson Wharf. Developments in the area to enable to event to take place will have a lasting impact...

Britomart is an urban regeneration success story, with refurbished heritage buildings with nautical and commercial history and well-designed modern low and mid-rise developments linked together by a number of well-used public spaces that people...

Commercial Bay is a major development by Precinct Properties completed in 2020 in the block bounded by Quay Street, Lower Queen Street and Albert Street. The project delivered 39,000sqm of office space across 39 levels in the new PwC Tower and a...

Heart of the City (HOTC) is the business association for Auckland’s city centre. We represent the interests of business in the city-centre and strive to ensure the city centre is vibrant and successful, commensurate with its role in Auckland’s economy....

We measure pedestrian numbers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year at multiple Auckland city centre locations. We spoke with Reveal Smart Nations, the provider of our counting system, about how powerful the data is for understanding the...

Update 1 June: Auckland Transport has reopened consultation for the Queen Street changes - with submissions now being received by email (to [email protected]) until midnight on Friday 4 June. Auckland Transport is proposing network ...

If you missed out giving feedback on Queen Street's network changes, Auckland Transport has reopened consultation until this Friday 4 June. Please take the opportunity to do this, particularly if you have concerns about for loading, drop-offs, scooters/...

Heart of the City (HOTC) is the business association for Auckland’s city centre. We represent the interests of businesses and property owners in the city centre. We are committed to the growth and success of the city centre as a vibrant, accessible, safe...

Artweek Auckland returns to the city centre from 9 - 17 October. As a proud long-standing supporter of the event, we're proud to be partnering with Artweek to offer opportunities for local artists to reimagine and transform some familiar city...

We’ll keep you on top of everything you need to know about Auckland’s city centre - from how it’s transforming and what this means for business, to what’s on in the city around you. To go to our membership sign-up for city centre businesses and...

Want to know how CRL construction is progressing behind the hoardings? It's a complex project with multiple worksites and workstreams, so we've rounded up some of the key activity for the coming months in the city centre, from tunnelling to road...

To allow the next stage of CRL works to take place, including construction of Aotea Station, there are some significant changes for access around this area of the city. The Victoria/Albert Street intersection will be closed from Tuesday 29...

Businesses facing the imminent closure of the Albert/Victoria Street intersection will gather in demonstration on the steps of Auckland Council on Thursday 17 June at 9am, asking for those accountable for the CRL project to make a decision on financial...

Auckland Transport are offering city centre workers assistance with planning their journeys to and from work. With City Rail Link construction progressing and the intersection at Victoria and Albert Street closing on 30 June, a number of workers’...

One week on from when more than two dozen businesses impacted by the City Rail Link gathered and only days before a major city centre intersection closure, businesses have still not had an answer on financial relief so desperately needed. Whilst...

With the COVID emergency works on Queen Street between Shortland Street and Mayoral Drive being removed, some interim changes are being proposed with the aim of prioritising loading, servicing and mobility parking over the provision of general parking....

Restaurant Month 2021 in the heart of the city is more world-class than ever before, bolstered by top talent returning home to Auckland’s already impressive culinary line-up. Viv Beck, Heart of the City Chief Executive, says, “The chefs and restaurant...

Two weeks after Albert Street area businesses asked decision makers to meet and let them know the outcome of requests for financial support, there is still no action.  Meanwhile, the Albert/Victoria Street intersection has closed and businesses are...

Time is ticking for businesses impacted by City Rail Link construction. One business on Victoria Street has closed this week, and other business owners are distressed and reporting a significant drop in trade. With no definitive answer on when the...

We'd like to welcome a range of new eateries, retailers and a new hotel that  have opened their doors in the past couple of months. Some big tech names have moved into shiny new city centre locations of late too. There are more openings coming up...

The City Rail Link's effect as a catalyst for private development is being realised with a number of projects in the news. These include developments like Mansons TCLM's new Fifty Albert $650m office tower and Auckland Real...

The evolution of Wynyard Quarter into a mixed-use precinct continues, with the development of more offices, homes and public spaces currently underway. Take a look at what's under construction here. Wynyard Quarter Innovation Precinct With Mason Bros,...

A Special Offers feature on heartofthecity.co.nz means we can now display your offers and promotions on a dedicated offers page as well as on your business listing page. We'll regularly promote offers from retailers, restaurants, arts...