Land Owner. Territorial Authority. Type Main city station. District Plan Yes. Conservation Plan Yes. Heritage Convenant No. Integrity Very good. Britomart is a site rich in history. Most of Britomart as we know it today was under water until the s, when Port Britomart was levelled and the land around it reclaimed from the sea to create improved facilities for a rapidly growing port and city around it.
From the s, the area of reclaimed land became one of Auckland's principal business districts, with many of the offices and warehouses built during this period now refurbished and serving new generations of occupants today. In the latter half of the 20th century, Britomart fell on hard times. A new bus depot occupied the centre of the precinct, and many of the buildings were shuttered and scheduled for demolition.
Eventually the council made plans to bring rail tracks into the heart of the city, and to save the heritage buildings around the new station. After an international design competition and a lengthy competitive bid process, Cooper and Company took over full responsibility for the regeneration and long-term management of Britomart with a long-term lease of the precinct.
Since then, heritage buildings have been gradually refurbished and combined with new architecture, plant-filled streets and a sunny public square.
Read our Sustainability Report. Cooper and Company is a private investment company with offices in Auckland, California and Texas. Cooper and Company invests in, manages and develops assets on a long-term basis in two main areas: real estate in both New Zealand and the United States, and private equity, with a focus on financial services and energy solutions.
In the Britomart development contract was put up for tender by Auckland City Council. After a lengthy and highly competitive international bid process, the Britomart contract was awarded to the Bluewater Consortium in In Bluewater Management Company bought out its partners in the Consortium and in April changed its name to Cooper and Company.
CPO Annexe completed. Britomart Development cancelled with stock market crash. Auckland City proposes the Britomart project. Design competition. And she could not believe this could be built here. And that was after 8. Our preference is to have much more through routing and use Britomart as much less of a Terminus post CRL. One interesting advantage of working those two outer platforms for the local intra-city routes is that it does free up the three central slots for inter-city trains….
That route diagram is based on the one the other guy did based off your comments? In terms of working with our current assets a cross town route seems like it would not only capture new passengers that it served better, but take away some stress from britomart. Having the Britomart entrance tunnel built early it was complete and boarded up for a few years from memory, perhaps Geoff has photos? Are there any plans to have a proper bus terminal as there was pre Britomart.
I realise it did not accommodate all services back then , rather than the shambles that exists post Britomart. In theory you will start to see fewer and fewer buses needing to travel all the way into the CBD as they will be turned into feeders. In theory only buses from the Shore, inner Isthmus, and the eastern bays will be required to come all the way in. Once the CRL comes in you will be able to provide for transfer for these services at any one of four inner city stations which will reduce the amount of buses converging on the downtown area even further.
A lot of services will start to run through the CBD instead of terminate there. Yes Happy Birthday Britomart! I now unfortunately live in Rotorua, But was born in Auckland in This makes me of the age when we visit Auckland I travel for free, and always visit that rail citidael Britomart! Thanks for this most enlightening post Matt.
The move to Britomart has been such a clear success story, and it really does show that projects like the CRL and expansion of the rail network can reap surprisingly large benefits even at this early stage in the development of our public transport system.
It was by no means the grandest or most elegant of bus stations, but it was very functional and easy to find the bus you wanted because they mostly left from the same place, and in the same direction, and the platforms were set out like in a railway station.
I wonder where planning is at with this because it would be great to recapture that efficiency somehow. These are some pictures from Assen in the Netherlands before and after the campaign there to make cycling safer. I really hope one day I can show my grandchildren photos like this about Auckland and they will be shocked by the massive traffic sewers we now call streets. Something close to zero dollars for 50 million bus trips. In exchange for… bus spread confusingly around the CBD, next to zero bus priority areas in the CBD, inadequate seating, zero staff on hand for bus service information, few if any amenities for bus users, and for most of the period paying higher prices than train passengers.
A shame they entirely forgot to do anything for the majority of public transport users. Your email address will not be published.
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Sign up for updates about what's happening, and how you can be part of it. Want to receive updates? Happy 10th Birthday Britomart. Matt L July 7, 56 Comments. Surely this is worth a bit more recognition?
AT are doing something tomorrow morning when there will be more people about. They have a band playing and they are cutting up a birthday cake and handing out slices. Very nice and lots of people.
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