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Creative thinking has revitalised Newcastle’s Hunter St Mall, where cars, shops and people have replaced the tumbleweeds, writes Helen Gregory.
The Newcastle Herald, H2.
Saturday 17 December 2011.
Rediscover Newcastle. If you haven’t been to Newcastle in a while you’ve been missing out, writes Lee Atkinson.
The Sun Herald
Sunday 27 November 2011
Just two year’s ago the once vibrant Newcastle’s Hunter Street Mall was a pretty shabby place, vandalised, empty boarded-up shopfronts, dying. It was depressing and leaving idle what was once valuable property. The turn around since however, thanks to the opportunities given to entrepreneurial artists by Renew Newcastle and GPT Group has been described as nothing short of a ‘miraculous’.
The best relationships between the arts, business and donors have been recognised at the 2010 National AbaF Awards, with the partnership between property developer The GPT Group and creative urban renewal project Renew Newcastle taking home the top award.
The partnership between The GPT Group and Renew Newcastle, a Not for Profit organisation that connects artists and creative groups with...
Renew Newcastle was rewarded yesterday for helping to turn Newcastle around when it was named Best Organisation at the 2010 Newcastle Business Club awards.
Marni Jackson accepted the award on behalf of the non-profit organisation, which brings to life vacant retail premises in Newcastle.
The organisation has operated for only two years. In the Newcastle CBD alone, it has turned...
18 Aug 2010
REVITALISE: Renew Newcastle general manager Marni Jackson in Before it Began
TALK of cutting Newcastle’s rail line or building a new shopping complex in the Hunter Street Mall does not phase Renew Newcastle general manager Marni Jackson.
After months of speculation on what to do with Newcastle’s decaying CBD, the not for profit project Renew Newcastle is...
THE "green shoots of recovery" can be seen in Newcastle's city centre according to a Newcastle City Council report. The overall number of vacant buildings, shop fronts and lots in the city centre had decreased from 166 in January last year to 145 that June. The report cited the reopening of Hunter Street Mall and increased activity brought about through the Renew Newcastle initiative, which...
The post-industrial city of Newcastle is reinventing itself as a centre for culture, art, music and crafts thanks to initiatives like Renew Newcastle.
First-time visitors to Newcastle are often shocked to discover that more than one third of shop fronts in the city’s Central Business District lie eerily abandoned.
According to property developers GPT Group, the decline of Newcastle’s CBD is...
"Renew Newcastle has seen an abundance of artisians move into vacant buildings in the previously bereft Newcastle Mall. Not only have they injected life into the area and seen boarded up or vandalised shop fronts filled with colour, vitality and talent - it's had a knock-on effect with businesses moving into the area along with the crowds." - from Pink Patent Mary Jane's Blog.
*"the Renew Newcastle project enabled small businesses, artists, entrepreneurs and various creatives to find a temporary home in these largely unoccupied city centre spaces. By liaising with the building owners, the project found a way of offering super-short-term leases at peppercorn rents in all kinds of pretty vacant spaces. They overlaid a free wi-fi network, enabling basic connectivity...
