2 Drake Street

An office and retail building in the heart of the Victoria Quarter

Set in the heart of the Victoria Quarter, The Drake is a Historic Place Category 2 building dating back to the late 1800s. The former Freeman’s Hotel is a late nineteenth-century urban corner pub designed by the noted Auckland architectural firm Edward Mahoney and Sons. In 2009 Morton Property built a new interlinking office building designed to 4 Green Stars which was one of the first Green Star projects in New Zealand. In 2019 we completed the seismic strengthening and conversion of the pub to character offices which is now home to advertising agency Pitchblack Partners.