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Melbourne Docklands is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 km west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Melbourne. At the 2006 Census, Melbourne Docklands had a population of 3939.
Melbourne Docklands is a primarily waterfront area centred around the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne, Australia. Recently, much of this area has been reconstructed to become a new inner city suburb and urban renewal project in Melbourne.
It is bounded by Spencer Street, Wurundjeri Way and Charles Grimes bridge to the east, CityLink to the west and Lorimer Street across the Yarra to the south.
Melbourne Docklands is best known as home to the Etihad Stadium, Southern Cross Station and a large number of modern buildings and eccentric public artworks.
The Docklands precinct was originally used for docks but fell out of use following the containerisation of shipping traffic. The space remained vacant and unused during the 1980s and it fell in to disrepair. It was used for "special events" during the 1990s, becoming notable for a number of dance and rave parties. After almost a decade of planning, urban renewal in earnest began with the construction of Docklands Stadium (then known as Colonial Stadium) in 1996. Completion is expected in 2015. The redeveloped area will almost double the size of the city's central business district. With a residential population primarily living in high-density highrise apartments, its population (2006) is 3939 persons. The residential population is expected to reach 20,000 in 2015. The current (2004) employment in the area is 7200 persons and expected to rise to 25,000 in years to come. The precinct is a tourist destination and Melbourne's tourist authorities anticipate over 20 million visitors per year in future years.
It has become a sought after business addresses, already attracting the national headquarters of the National Australia Bank, ANZ, AXA, Medibank Private and the Bureau of Meteorology and regional headquarters of the Bendigo Bank in campus style office buildings.
Despite being almost completely redeveloped Docklands does retain a handful of heritage buildings, including the former railways offices on Spencer Street, the railway goods sheds, The Mission to Seamen building docks crane and a small number of warehouses and container sheds. Almost all of these remaining buildings are being restored as part of the integration into the new development.
As of 1 July 2007 Docklands became part of the City of Melbourne local government authority. Until then it had not been part of any local government authority (LGA), but was its own LGA, the Docklands Authority (now Vic Urban), while being a division of the State government. Although Docklands is now part of the City of Melbourne, Vic Urban retains urban planning authority until 2010. However, the Planning Minister has the final say on the approval of a development.
www.docklands.com/docklands/
Melbourne Docklands is a primarily waterfront area centred around the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne, Australia. Recently, much of this area has been reconstructed to become a new inner city suburb and urban renewal project in Melbourne.
It is bounded by Spencer Street, Wurundjeri Way and Charles Grimes bridge to the east, CityLink to the west and Lorimer Street across the Yarra to the south.
Melbourne Docklands is best known as home to the Etihad Stadium, Southern Cross Station and a large number of modern buildings and eccentric public artworks.
The Docklands precinct was originally used for docks but fell out of use following the containerisation of shipping traffic. The space remained vacant and unused during the 1980s and it fell in to disrepair. It was used for "special events" during the 1990s, becoming notable for a number of dance and rave parties. After almost a decade of planning, urban renewal in earnest began with the construction of Docklands Stadium (then known as Colonial Stadium) in 1996. Completion is expected in 2015. The redeveloped area will almost double the size of the city's central business district. With a residential population primarily living in high-density highrise apartments, its population (2006) is 3939 persons. The residential population is expected to reach 20,000 in 2015. The current (2004) employment in the area is 7200 persons and expected to rise to 25,000 in years to come. The precinct is a tourist destination and Melbourne's tourist authorities anticipate over 20 million visitors per year in future years.
It has become a sought after business addresses, already attracting the national headquarters of the National Australia Bank, ANZ, AXA, Medibank Private and the Bureau of Meteorology and regional headquarters of the Bendigo Bank in campus style office buildings.
Despite being almost completely redeveloped Docklands does retain a handful of heritage buildings, including the former railways offices on Spencer Street, the railway goods sheds, The Mission to Seamen building docks crane and a small number of warehouses and container sheds. Almost all of these remaining buildings are being restored as part of the integration into the new development.
As of 1 July 2007 Docklands became part of the City of Melbourne local government authority. Until then it had not been part of any local government authority (LGA), but was its own LGA, the Docklands Authority (now Vic Urban), while being a division of the State government. Although Docklands is now part of the City of Melbourne, Vic Urban retains urban planning authority until 2010. However, the Planning Minister has the final say on the approval of a development.
www.docklands.com/docklands/
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands,_Victoria
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Coordinates: 37°49'4"S 144°56'25"E
- Little River 52 km
- Cocoroc 68 km
- Tumby Bay 900 km
- Sleaford 907 km
- Ungarra 913 km
- Uley 922 km
- Brooker 933 km
- Cummins 942 km
- Coulta 947 km
- Coffin Bay 960 km
- Victoria Harbour 0.2 km
- Melbourne Central City Studios 0.6 km
- Docklands Stadium 0.6 km
- Bolte Bridge 0.9 km
- Southern Cross Railway Station (formerly Spencer Street Railway Station)(1859) 1 km
- Flagstaff Gardens 1.5 km
- Melbourne Freight Terminal 1.8 km
- Port of Melbourne 1.9 km
- Melbourne CBD 2.1 km
- Melbourne 8.5 km
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