The HyperBlog » Out with the Old, in with the Newcastle: city ...

We especially should forget about Newcastle City centre being a mass retail and shopping district. The de-centralisation of essential government services to suburbs and other major Hunter town centres, the retail saturation of Charlestown and Kotara, and the drifting of professional services to the western parts of Honeysuckle and other inner western suburbs has resulted in an effective abandonment of the traditional city centre around Hunter Street Mall. ...