Value added success

At the age of 19, most teenagers are figuring out what they want to do with their life, but CBD entrepreneur Matt Mahon had a vision.

Timing is everything!

Cel Out doesn’t have an arts background and, is quick to stress, not confident with drawing.

Let’s talk about density

On Monday, February 9 the commercial broadcast media was all fired up with sensationalist headlines and shallow reporting on the release of a report which sought to “investigate planning policies that deliver positive social outcomes in hyper-dense, high-rise residential environments”.

From community activist to councillor

It’s been interesting to watch Jackie Watts’ transition from community activist to councillor.

Assault at karaoke bar

Melbourne North Crime Investigation Unit detectives are investigating a serious assault that left two people injured at a karaoke bar in the CBD last month.

Councillors compromise on housing strategy

After more than eight years of talking about it, the City of Melbourne has a housing strategy but no one, it appears, is very happy with it.

Creative pathway

Young people between 13 to 25 years engaged with professional artists as co-creators during Signal 37.

Riding roughshod over the law

The clippity clop of hooves on CBD streets is soothing to most but is increasingly annoying to the City of Melbourne.

High hopes for the ‘other’ east-west link

Proponents of the Melbourne B1 Veloway are confident that the new State Government will accept their novel idea to separate cyclists from CBD motorists and pedestrians.

Call for plan for the central city

Some order may come to the apparent planning chaos within the CBD if City of Melbourne planning chair Cr Ken Ong has his way.

Central city is the new Wi-Fi hub

For residents and visitors constantly on the go, it doesn’t get better than in the CBD.

Melbourne imagined as Manhattan

This stunning image of the intersection of Bourke and Elizabeth streets by master photographer David Simmonds interprets the CBD in the vision of New York.

Jury is out on further smoking bans

The City of Melbourne has completed its consultation on three new potential smoke-free zones in the CBD.

From busking to the city’s top job

New Melbourne council CEO Ben Rimmer is returning to the city which gave him a start in life – as a young busker playing violin for extra cash.

End of the line for weather station

After 106 years of recording CBD weather, the LaTrobe St weather observation station has been closed.

Parking has peaked in CBD

Car parking has peaked in central Melbourne and is now in decline.

Where has all the good architecture gone?

There is one problem – there have been few good pieces of architecture built here in the past five years. 

Desirable!

The magic of the stage

At just 26-years of age, CBD resident Jayde Krichet exhibits the confidence and the wisdom of a seasoned stage director.

Waiting to learn new rules

It’s a new year, we have a new state government, an updated project database and potentially a new planning approval regime for the Capital City Zone which encompasses the CBD, Southbank, Docklands and Fishermans Bend.