Post by Brent George on Jul 24, 2023 20:35:39 GMT
NZ's fastest growing city has 'dead vibes' in the CBD
Stuff - Bay of Plenty: 22-July-2023
Has Tauranga really become a “ghost town”?
A sightseeing video by a visitor went viral this week for all the wrong reasons, after highlighting a city centre filled with shop windows decked in ‘For Lease’ signs, abandoned businesses and “dead vibes”.
The video, posted on TikTok by What Zoe Does, said 90% of stores in the main street were either closed or for lease.
Non-residents were shocked, calling it “dire”, “grim” with “dead vibes,” rather than the hum and buzz of activity and trade you’d expect in a city centre.
[Or this may be symptomatic of a post-Covid; early-recession; tough-economy; pre-normal tourism operation type times.
What is it like in a town near you?]
Stuff - Bay of Plenty: 22-July-2023
Has Tauranga really become a “ghost town”?
A sightseeing video by a visitor went viral this week for all the wrong reasons, after highlighting a city centre filled with shop windows decked in ‘For Lease’ signs, abandoned businesses and “dead vibes”.
The video, posted on TikTok by What Zoe Does, said 90% of stores in the main street were either closed or for lease.
Non-residents were shocked, calling it “dire”, “grim” with “dead vibes,” rather than the hum and buzz of activity and trade you’d expect in a city centre.
[Or this may be symptomatic of a post-Covid; early-recession; tough-economy; pre-normal tourism operation type times.
What is it like in a town near you?]