Our streets bustle with trade.
Specialty shops jostle with general stores for attention.
Espresso machines hiss, and the coffee shops spill people back onto the pavements, refreshed, to explore and sample the variety of experiences in the City of Yarra. Nowhere can the influence of Australia's migrant communities be seen as clearly as in the energy and optimism of our retail industry. There are 14 shopping strips and two markets, and each strip has cultivated an identity of its own that, as well as appealing to the local community, attracts interstate and international visitors. Fitzroy is Melbourne's oldest suburb, and Smith Street, which borders Fitzroy and Collingwood, is Melbourne's oldest shopping street. It's all there.