Night market outperforms

The Victoria Market’s summer night market is performing beyond expectations with unofficial reports of a 40 per cent growth on last year.

Finale for artists’ building?

Lawyers are advising tenants of the Nicholas Building to think about exit strategies, following gazettal by the Minister for Planning in January of the project land area for the Metro Tunnel. 

Food delivery revolution

CBD tops the  2016 residential sales list

The CBD has taken out the number one spot for the highest total value of residential unit sales for 2016.

Developing young talent

Young Melbourne artists developed their skills alongside professionals last month at the CBC-based Signal Summer Program.

Mass exodus by community staff

The City of Melbourne’s placemaking and engagement branch, which focuses on strengthening our local community, has recently been the subject of major staff losses.  

VCAT out of reach of locals

CBD locals are despondent that serious financial risk has prevented them from challenging a controversial City of Melbourne planning decision late last year.

Looking for a social conscience

These days everyone likes to advertise their differences including Marcus Dixon, the Big Issue seller in Flinders Lane, who makes up a little riff about the magazine to amuse buyers.

$8 million gallery gift

An $8 million donation from the John and Myriam Wylie Foundation is enabling the State Library of Victoria to build a new gallery.

Plenty of Chinese New Year choices

CBD residents have plenty of choices this Chinese New Year, which gets underway on Friday, January 27 and concludes on February 12.

Apartment standards have been relaxed

Victoria’s new apartments standards to become law next month are significantly more relaxed than the draft that was circulated in the middle of last year.

Third party rights back in spotlight

Third party planning notification and appeal rights for CBD residents are back on the agenda.

Making a splash!

Young and old celebrated summer with a supersized inflatable slip ‘n’ slide at Federation Square last month.

Metro Tunnel gets underway

The first major works of the Melbourne Metro Tunnel project started last month with the closure of Franklin and A’Beckett streets.

Homeless epidemic divides the city

Homeless camps around the CBD are drawing national attention and people are divided on what to do about them.

Hall of secrets

The level of secrecy adopted by the City of Melbourne has been brought into sharp focus by recent inquiries about its approach to filling the 11th councillor vacancy.

Councillor position saga to continue

Melbourne could be without an 11th and final city councillor for months, thanks to an attempt by the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) to overturn a decision made by a magistrate last year.

Too close to home

January 20’s Bourke St horror will be with us for a long time.

Emergency vehicle damaged

Police are appealing for witnesses after objects were dropped on an emergency services vehicle in Melbourne’s CBD early on Sunday, November 20.

Hungry thieves target Queen St

Melbourne police are still searching for two men believed to have broken into a Queen St building in late August.