Where is freemans bay auckland

Skip to content. Freemans Bay School. Empower 1. Enrich 1. Engage 1. Empower 2. Enrich 2. Engage 2. Empower 3. This mirrored the activity in neighbouring suburbs Ponsonby and St Marys Bay — where the remaining Victorian villas were snapped up and renovated to fashionable and modern glory. Rupa's has been owned by the same family for many years and is one of Auckland's most iconic inner city buildings.

It is a favourite with the locals serving both cafe style food and authentic Indian curries and samosa's. Fantastic inner city park - bigger than it looks. Great Kids playground with flying fox. Off leash dog walking and sculptures by John Radford. Built sometime between and , when the area was known as Dedwood, The Cav has been a feature of the landscape for over years. Serving classic gastropub fare and a selection of craft beer it is the perfect spot for a meal or after work drinks.

With large grounds for playing cricket and rugby, a skatepark, a playground for the kids or simply finding a sunny spot for a midweek lunch break Victoria Park offers an oasis of green in the central city. Once a year Franklin Road residents light up their street to create a magical Christmas setting. The lights are on every night until Christmas Eve from 6. You can drive the street but it's well worth the walk up and back down the road so you can take in the very talented busking musicians.

If you would like to know more about a property or require further information about the local market please get in touch and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Watch Our Auctions Live. Freemans Bay While Freemans Bay may have lost the ocean, today it is the confident yet quiet over-achiever with a savvy and cultured soul.

Auckland Freemans Bay. On the market Things to do. Few places in Auckland can claim as dramatic a Cinderella story as Freemans Bay. History Despite its current land-locked location, the name denotes its beginnings as a bay.

Queenies Filled with interesting collectables and colour, the essence of Queenies is great food, coffee, colour and people. On the market Buy Rent. Things to do, places to see. Freemans Bay School. Nelson St lost its southern end as the motorway churned through, dividing the old Freemans Bay and eradicating parts of residential areas. The slum clearance was total on the city side of Union St, where commercial buildings and the City Works Depot - now portrayed as "industrial and chic" - were built.

But on the other side of Union St, progress was slow in building the new housing. The council cut back the slum-clearance scheme and in abandoned it - paving the way for renovation and climbing property values as city-living gained new popularity. From the late s, after World War II, prosperity, the baby boom and the quarter-acre dream drew people to suburbs further out and the inner-city attracted first urbanising Maori seeking work, then Pacific Islands immigrants.

The population of the CBD and inner ring of suburbs reached 68, in , but crashed to about 35, by , before climbing back and over the , mark by this year. The CBD fell from about 10, in to fewer than in and now with the apartment-building boom has more than 44, residents.