{video}Auckland’s latest lockdown has cost central city businesses $110 million in sales, according to Heart of the City. In a statement released on Sunday, the inner-city business group estimated customer-facing businesses in the city centre had lost an average of $85,000 in consumer spending since the beginning of lockdown on August 17. The cost of the current lockdown was comparable to level 4 in 2020 and brought the total loss for about 1300 businesses to nearly $800 million since January 2020, an average of almost $600,000 per business, it said.Heart of the City chief executive Viv Beck​ said the numbers s ... (full story)