Summer BBQ - Northcote Town Centre
You are invited to attend the Northcote Town Centre’s Summer BBQ which takes place at
Date: Tuesday, 23 March
Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Place: Northcote Library
Here are some images from the 2010 Chinese & Korean New Year Festival
History of the Northcote Town Centre
The 1956 Northcote Borough Act allowed Council to sell the lots to any person who wished to build for commercial purposes. The Northcote Borough chose not to sell the freehold land, so as to ensure Council’s adequate control over the development.
The official opening of the Centre was held on Friday 19 June 1959. The buildings and activities built at that time included a drapery, a food market, a green grocery, a hairdressers, doctors and dentists rooms and a post office.
Northcote was one of the earliest pedestrian malls built in New Zealand.
The new Town Centre was to be the first municipally-owned shopping mall in New Zealand.
Centre Upgrade 1990-2006
1992 – Retail consulting group report - Northcote losing competitiveness - refurbishment commenced and Mainstreet established.
1995 – Brief on upgrade retaining its strengths and village atmosphere.
1996 – Isthmus Group redesign car park, simplify mall area Pacific theme.
1997- Mainstreet rate to promote Northcote.
1999-2000 – Upgrade completed with Isthmus and Mainstreet groups.
2002 – Northcote Central planning project – housing redevelopment; rapid bus transport system employment initiatives.
2006 – Northcote Shopping Centre bus project completed.
Northcote Statistics
• Low retail vacancy and half the shops owner-occupied.
• Slightly higher unemployment rate than rest of North Shore and rest of Auckland.
• High percentage of elderly people and children.
• High density of rental housing.
• Northcote’s main attraction is food retail.
• A varity of education facilities/schools close to the centre.
• There is a lot of recreational space in close proximity to the town centre.
• A large number of residents live close to the centre which helps to create a vibrant centre.
Northcote Shopping Centre Celebrates
The recent festival held in the Northcote Town Centre to celebrate “60th Anniversary of China’s National Day” and the “Moon Festival” was a tremendous success in terms of the diverse crowds it attracted, entertainment it provided and media coverage it garnered.
Chinese Consul-General Madam Liao following the Lion Dance
60th Anniversary of China’s National Day / Moon Festival
Food Hygiene Course
Northcote Mainstreet has worked hard on having outstanding food hygiene standards in the Northcote Town Centre. Most businesses in the centre now have an A or B food hygiene rating.
A food hygiene course was run in the Centre with outstanding results being achieved. Four Northcote business-people achieved over 95% in the course exam which is outstanding.
Martin Lawes & David Ryan presenting Food Hygiene Certificates.
Real Art Roadshow
The ‘Real Art Roadshow’ came to Northcote in July. This mobile art collection has been touring the country, and received an excellent response in Northcote. It was a good attraction in the last school holidays, and we will continue to work to get future roadshows into the Northcote Town Centre.
Chinese & Korean New Year Festival
The Northcote Shopping Centre celebrates the Chinese & Korean New Year (‘Year of the Ox’) with a free family celebration on Saturday, 31 January 09 from 10:00am – 2:30pm.
The event also features authentic Asian food stalls, an art exhibition, a host of free children’s entertainment, and special activities such as traditional Chinese fortune telling.
Northcote
A successful Northcote Fiesta was staged in the centre on Saturday, 1 November. There were good crowds of people in the centre enjoying the entertainment from various cultural groups and local schools, and the fund-raising stalls organised by the Rotary Club of Northcote. The Northcote Fiesta, proved to be a great occasion for the Northcote Shopping Centre, and community in general, as can be seen from these images.
Crowds at the Northcote Fiesta
Jonathan Coleman’s team help him get re-elected as Northcote’s MP
Children at Play
Korean Traditional Music & Cultural Group
Drums of the Pacific in war cry
Bayview School students get set to perform
North Shore City Beijing OlympicsThe recent “North Shore City Beijing Olympics Live” was a tremendous success in terms of the diverse crowds that it drew in, entertainment it provided and media coverage it attracted.
Key to the success of the “live site” were the various special events held in the Northcote Shopping Centre each weekend. The Opening Event in particular attracted several thousand people, and provided a great start to the promotion.
An estimated audience of 70,000 attended the “live site” during its 16 day duration. The audience was varied, with people from all ages, from various parts of the North Shore and the wider Auckland region coming into the centre for the coverage and associated events.
One of the highlights of the promotion was seeing a large crowd of people from diverse backgrounds in the Northcote Shopping Centre from 12midnight – 4am watching the ‘Opening Ceremony’ live from Beijing.
The promotion garnered a significant amount of media coverage including “live crosses” on Breakfast and the TV3 News, a feature story on the TV One News, and a feature on Asia Downunder.
“North Shore City Beijing Olympics Live” was certainly a large undertaking and could not have been done without the financial support of North Shore City Council and The Lion Foundation.
We had visits from representatives from both Auckland and Manukau City Councils during “North Shore City Beijing Olympics Live,”complimenting Northcote Mainstreet on the professionalism of the set-up, and the ideal location that the Northcote Shopping Centre provided for a “live site”.
This newsletter features some photographs from the “live site” and some of the media coverage from the promotion.
We can now look forward to a summer of entertainment and events in the Centre, starting with the Northcote Fiesta on Saturday, 1 November.
Media CoverageThe North Shore City Beijing Olympics “live site” garnered excellent media coverage. Some of the media stories that focussed on ‘North Shore City Beijing Olympics Live’ are as follows –
• North Shore Times (Thursday, 31 July) story entitled “Watch the Olympics on a very big screen”
• Chinese Herald (Thursday, 7 August) front page feature story.
• Breakfast (Friday, 8 August) six live crosses from the Northcote Shopping Centre previewing North Shore City Beijing Olympics Live with segments on performance groups taking part in the event.
• ONE News (Friday, 8 August) a story from the Opening Night event featuring cultural performances and crowds at the event.
• TV3 News (Friday, 8 August) a live cross on the TV3 News, featuring the Olympics Mascots and cultural performances on stage.
• WTV (Sunday, 10 August) a feature story on the Sunday, 10 August event featuring the Mascots and Chinese performing groups.
• Asia Downunder (Sunday, 17 August) a six minute feature on the Opening Night of the event which featured cultural performances and interviews.
• North Shore Times (Tuesday, 19 August) half page story entitled “Olympics Games on our doorstep” on the event.
