Where am I?

I biked through town after work and experienced my usual sense of bewilderment and confusion. I stopped and looked around, and eventually worked out I was on the corner of Manchester and Hereford streets.

It's still a bit busted and bare but I felt a surge of nostalgia and remembered the location and shops and cafes that used to be here. Other parts of town have cranes and buildings under construction. It's not all as confronting as this, though I think it scenes like this (or large tracts of cleared land) dominate the central city.

I bike past the Margaret Mahy kids playground too. What a marvelous space. There were kids and families everywhere, all free, all accessible. It gives me hope for my city.