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Two local town centres have shown positive growth in the recent quarter, while central Auckland dives deep into negative territory.
Paymark/Marketview figures supplied to Destination Orewa Beach show that overall the spend in Orewa in the July-September quarter was 4.6 percent up on the same quarter last year. In dollar terms, it was an increase of $1.5 million.
The biggest growth was in retail (29.5 percent) and groceries (26.1 percent), which includes supermarkets, fruit and vegetable shops, bakeries and liquor outlets. Cafés, restaurants and takeaways showed a 6.8 percent increase, while fuel and automotive was down -13.5 percent.
Silverdale showed 4.5 percent overall growth for the same period.
Destination Orewa operations manager Hellen Wilkins says while figures for Whangaparāoa are not available, she is confident there has also been an upswing for business on the peninsula.
At the same time, Auckland overall averaged -6.3 percent and the city centre was at -34.2 percent.
Hellen says it’s important to note that these results are a summary across all sectors and don’t represent individual businesses’ results. “These are awesome results considering it’s for the winter period and includes lockdowns,” Hellen says. “The spend outside of the lockdown periods, has consistently been higher than the same time last year.”
