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Introducing the faces behind your favourite local businesses in Takapuna! It’s been a hard and unprecedented time for business and life across the board, so we thought we would introduce you to some of the wonderful people responsible for your favourite shops, eateries and businesses across Takapuna, so you can get to know a bit about them and their love for Takapuna and their customers! If we want to keep Takapuna as the vibrant, fun place we all love – we need YOU to help, to SHOP LOCAL and support our local businesses now more than ever. Life for Men – A passion for personal service Takapuna resident Scott Donovan might be best known as the face of Takapuna’s Life For Men menswear store on Hurstmere

Shop in Takapuna & WIN a shopping spree! ENTER HERE! How would YOU spend $5,000 in Takapuna? Shop in Takapuna for your chance to win one of TWO $5,000 Shopping Sprees!* Simply spend $20 or more in any participating Takapuna business – hospitality or retail, or anywhere you see the poster – from NOW until Friday 31st July 2020, receive your unique code, enter online and you’re in to win! The lucky winners will have 2 hours to shop around any Takapuna businesses of their choosing, continuing to support our local businesses as well as shopping up a storm and treating themselves! Want to know where to shop? Check out the list of participating businesses below! *T’s and C’s apply. Promotion runs from 20 May 2020 – 31

New concept design endorsed for Takapuna town square Takapuna locals can now visualise how their future town square will look after the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board endorsed the concept design today. Now, people will be able to give their feedback to help refine the details of the design. In the future, the town square will be a place where people can come together to meet and relax, children can play and celebrations can be held. The design is the result of local feedback and expert master-planning which will give Takapuna a new heart. Extensive feedback has been included in the design from the local community, DevonportTakapuna Local Board and other key stakeholders between 2017 – 2018. The much-debated location and shape of the town square was

Why the government must not walk away from good businesses via Channel Magazine. To say we are in challenging times would be an understatement. My business life started over 40 years ago as a young pimply-faced advertising cadet at the New Zealand Herald. The year was 1979, I was 16 going on 17. Erebus had just happened. Rob Muldoon was the prime minister. Nine years later I started our business Benefitz. August 1988, as New Zealand was battling with the fall-out from the share market crash of 1987. Things were starting to bite. In hindsight it was a crazy but good time to start out in business. It was a character building time for all. Just two years prior Michelle and I had bought our

Takapuna, our beloved town centre filled with vibrancy, life and laughter, needs YOU to get through this COVID-19 situation. Our local businesses have been hit hard by having to close and change the way they operate. For many, this might be too much and we may lose some of our beloved businesses. If we want to keep Takapuna as the vibrant, fun place we all love – we need YOU to SHOP LOCAL and support our local businesses over the next while. There are lots of benefits to YOU shopping local too!! Here are 10 things that happen to TAKAPUNA when YOU shop local: You take advantage of great customer service and expertise You are their friends and neighbours, and locally owned businesses have a

Women’s Winter Fashion in Takapuna Go no further than Takapuna for all your fashion needs this winter. A sortie along Hurstmere Road and side streets proves there’s a wealth of women’s fashion choice along the main street strip and side streets. With garments arriving now, it’s time to ignore the continuing hot weather, and start to plan ahead for cooler days. Sophisticated and feminine fashion at Repertoire, at the intersection of Lake Road and Hurstmere Road, combines with styles that last beyond a single season. As the new season’s garments arrive, look out for tweed in every hue, and lots of gold, high necks and ruffles. Animal print leather augments still-popular animal print tops and skirts – and this season’s boots to the knee take

Town square brings Takapuna’s future closer Takapuna’s transformation has taken another big step, following a recent decision by Auckland Council to approve the layout of a large public town square. The new 3,200sqm town square will provide our town centre with a much-needed heart and place for people to congregate. It will be a place focused around people – where people share stories, quench a thirst, share food, celebrate milestones, and where kids can have fun! Repurposing the Anzac Street asphalt carpark area has not been without controversary. For nearly a decade, it has been a hot point of contention. However, multiple surveys of the public and business association members alike have consistently shown strong support for its redevelopment into a high-quality mixed-use precinct. The

The long lunch is something we often associate with the carefree days of summer – but not in Takapuna, where the year-round beachside vibe will have you feeling like you’ve taken a mini break from it all, even in the middle of winter. We’ve rounded up some of our top picks for a leisurely lunch, places where you can cosy up with warming food before a bracing stroll along the beach. Regatta The Strand, Takapuna With a laidback seaside feeling and a perfect vantage point to take in views of the water, it’s easy to relax in to a long lunch at Regatta. There’s a bounty from the ocean on the menu here, such as oysters; seafood chowder with toasted focaccia and seaweed butter; and

There’s lots going on at Takapuna’s “social kitchen” and “larger than life local” – The Elephant Wrestler. And lots more planned. Owner Steve Shute says the team has a really exciting summer coming up. New group dining initiatives will “make for some fun and affordable nights out”, and  2018 hit events like The Rib Joint Pop-Up and Lip Sync Battles will return. But before that, December is all about sharing. Menu items already proving popular are “Dragon Babies”, small plate selections, curated to be a fusion of Asian flavours. “You have to try the Coconut Chicken and the Pork Belly bites,” he enthuses. “Honestly, these are amazing dishes.” In January, you’ll find more new sharing menus (“great value menus designed for any style of light meal catch-ups”)