Wellington Scoop and Business
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Not just a bookshop
- Wellington Scoop
- As Wellington mourns the loss (at the end of March) of one of its oldest bookshops, there’s agreement that Vic Books is in fact … not just a bookshop.
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- books
- retail
- victoria-university
Vic Books, Kelburn Parade, Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The business case
- Wellington Scoop
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Hollywood in Upper Hutt?
- Wellington Scoop
- Many questions are raised by today’s curious report that there are dreams of creating a Hollywood-style film production studio in Upper Hutt.
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- hutt-valley
- film-and-video
Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A celebration at Unity Books, and other favourite places
- Wellington Scoop
- Wednesday will be a day of celebration at Unity Books in Willis Street, marking the end of months of renovations. Bigger! Brighter! Even better! The new Unity Books has a wider, more welcoming facade, a lot more window space to entice pedestrians to stop, and a lot more space for browsing and buying.
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- books
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The disappearance of nine car parks, and the decline of a heritage shopping precinct
- Wellington Scoop
- n November 2008, road works were started to resurface and widen Riddiford Street in Newtown, from the southern end to the heritage shopping precinct at the intersection of John Street and Adelaide Road. The contractor put up a sign saying the work would take a month. But it took two and a half months, finishing about the middle of February 2009.
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- cafes
- retail
- parking
- newtown
Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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What went wrong with Wellington’s big overseas-owned bookstores?
- Wellington Scoop
- Reports this weekend have confirmed that the money troubles faced by the owners of the Whitcoulls and Borders bookstores are likely to leave empty retail spaces not only in Lambton Quay. The future could also be uncertain for Wellington’s other big Whitcoulls stores, in the Readings complex in Courtenay Place, at the airport, and in Queensgate, as well as others throughout New Zealand.
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- retail
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If we’re so cool, why are Manners Street businesses so unhappy?
- Wellington Scoop
- Banners telling us that we are the “coolest little capital in the world” are on display throughout the CBD. But if we’re so cool, then why are Manners Street retailers so unhappy?
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Crime scene investigation: Miramar
- Wellington Scoop
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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellywood: good idea, dreadful idea
- Wellington Scoop
- It’s a great idea to put a Hollywood-style sign on the Miramar peninsula. But it’s a dreadful idea for the sign to use the cliched “Wellywood” word, which does nothing except show that we are hankering after older and bigger film industries rather than having confidence in our own identity and our own name.
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- film-and-video
- wellywood-sign
Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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570 community websites under threat
- Wellington Scoop
- Council annual planning rounds are by their nature a stressful time for community groups, and this year is a classic. The latest round creates the prospect of losing the Wellington Community Net, a free website hosting and support service for community groups.
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- community-groups
- internet-services
- wcn-funding
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