City centre employment keeps growing
Hottish off the press: there are now more than 120,000 people working in Auckland’s city centre,* making it the biggest hub for employment in New Zealand. Almost 3,000 jobs were added in the last year.
That’s based on a fairly typical definition of the city centre, stretching from Wynyard Quarter to the eastern end of the ports, and inside the motorway noose (plus the western end of K Road).…
33 Comments More jobs in the city centre
However you define Auckland’s “city centre”, it’s been adding jobs rapidly in the last couple of years. Based on a narrow definition – roughly, the area bounded by the motorways – the city centre has hit a new milestone of 100,000 jobs, actually reaching almost 102,000 as at February 2016.…
Auckland Office space Low – More on the Horizon
An interesting piece was hidden in the Herald’s business section yesterday from Chris Dibble, the national research manager at Colliers International talking about the shortage of office space in the central city.
The amount of vacant office space in the Auckland CBD has been shrinking for the past three years as the economy grows, business confidence reaches record highs and supply stays still.…
Job growth in New Zealand – Auckland leading the way
In a recent post I looked at the geographic distribution of New Zealand’s economic activity, finding that the majority of the country’s GDP is produced by its three major cities – Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch.
However, it’s also really important to look at the growth of regional economies over time.…
How rail upgrades help the North Shore
Whenever there is public discussion on projects that improve the rail network – whether it be electrification or the city rail link – we often see comments to the effect of “but it doesn’t do anything to help the North Shore”.…
What is employment in the city centre, anyway?
I wrote most of this post back in November, when the latest CBD-specific employment data came out. We didn’t publish it at the time, since we felt we had given the topic enough coverage already, but it seems appropriate to revisit it now that the Ministry of Transport has released some new documents on progress towards the government’s targets for starting the City Rail Link early.…
Why being a liveable city is important economically
Len Brown made a big deal in his first term about making Auckland the world’s most liveable city and projects like the CRL are key to that vision. But when it comes to business and Auckland’s economy is that vision worth it or should we instead be focused on keeping rates as low as absolutely possible – as the likes of Cameron Brewer would have us do.…
Employment update: good or bad for the CRL?
As Matt wrote yesterday, it’s clear that central Auckland is becoming increasingly important for employment. So that’s good news for the City Rail Link, right? Well, it’s probably fair to call it mixed news.
National’s ‘support’ of the CRL came loaded with a lot of conditions.…
Strong employment growth in the central city
Last week Statistics NZ released their business demography statistics for 2013 which provides a range of information about businesses in New Zealand. One of the really interesting bits of information included within the release are employee counts by geographic area, which can tell us the number of jobs in each area unit.…
Can we meet the targets to start the CRL early?
As I’m sure you can imagine with the transport announcement yesterday we will have heaps to talk about over the coming weeks. It is going to take us some time to fully go through everything so please bear with us as we do that however if there is a particular topic you would like to see on the blog please feel free to provide a guest post.…
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