Wellington business gets its mojo back

Wellington business gets its mojo back
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Jem Traylen
It wasn’t long ago a gloomy narrative hung over the Wellington region as iconic businesses such as Wishbone went into liquidation, and politicians announced plans for spending cuts.For a moment, lobbyist Charles Finny found himself the centre of social media attention after tweeting a photo of a sad-looking, dark, empty Wishbone café on the ground floor of The Treasury building at number one, The Terrace.The address is ground zero for the capital’s CBD and the economic activity that radiates from it, with the wider region gen...

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