[1] Today, most of the street is fronted by low-level retail outlets, with an increase in mixed use skyscrapers being recently constructed.

The offices at Central Plaza Two have their entrance at the easterly end or downtown part of the street.

To ease congestion in the Brisbane central business district traffic direction is one-way from west to east.

Elizabeth Street was one of various Brisbane locations used in the filming of the 2015 motion picture San Andreas.

The street was used to represent downtown San Francisco after a major earthquake struck that city,[2] with over 300 extras participating in the shooting of the scene.