Is there life after death for our CBDs?

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20 July 2024: Central Auckland’s obsession with cones has claimed Smith and Caughey’s. It is with growing frustration I see Auckland’s planners taking to the CBD with the infamous gusto expressed by an American Vietnam War officer: it became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

Albert St was closed before TikTok was a thing and it still is. The whole city rail link (CRL) project was meant to have opened last year for $2.5 billion. It’s now next year, perhaps and will cost $5.5b, maybe. It was meant to be a retail white knight but is more black death. I know people who have lost their businesses, their savings and their marriages because of the stress this induces.