Matai Common in Mollett Street is part of the enhancement of the city’s South Frame. The idea is to use stories, plants, and landscape design to create a unique and welcoming urban place. It features attractive plantings with boards explaining how the various native plants can be used.
Matai Common
Today the only inhabitants were rebuild workers on their morning break, but there are monthly Sunday markets here, and an invitation for other community events. Yikes is responsible for the mural near the Colombo Street entrance.
Mollett Street mural by Yikes
As the rebuild continues the South Frame will have three more gathering spaces like this, all linked by pedestrian and cycle ways.
“A common space where we can rest
when relaxation is the quest.”
Ruth's Reflections 
Markets aren’t usually a success until they are weekly. Market goers are required to remember the dates when a monthly market is on. If on every week, no remembering required
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I imagine this one is aimed at enticing people into the inner city. It’s usually publicised in the ‘Press’, and reports I’ve seen show plenty of people.
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