Planning
A new identity for the Walk Arcade
The long-mooted redevelopment of the Walk Arcade looks to finally be progressing following the submission of an application to DELWP on February 9 for “alterations, additions (including partial demolition) to existing buildings for the purposes of retail premises, residential hotel and gym”.
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Double trouble in harness
Kathy Sun and her partner Brendan Lee have been regulars at Flagstaff Gardens for a couple of years since they got Bubble, their Japanese Spitz.
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24-hour construction starting in CBD
In April, the Metro Tunnel project is progressing to start the 24-hour construction activities in the CBD.
Read MoreEmpire of Melbourne
I have spent some of this month fixing up and re-doing the lanes at the north of the CBD.
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Palace of Winged Words
A 19th century three-storey redbrick building in Wills St in the CBD hardly rates a glance from most passers-by who are unaware that this building was once Melbourne’s first purpose-built telephone exchange.
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Keeping fit in the CBD
You live in Melbourne’s CBD? The pre-conception is that your environment, with all the hustle and bustle and compact living could not possibly be healthy, compared to your suburban or country cousins. Is this so?
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Letters to the Editor - April 2018
I continue to enjoy reading each month CBD News.
Read MoreEmbedded kickbacks
We Live Here has had a request from the ABC for information about embedded electricity networks.
Read MoreCallisto Woman near Ganymede
Many years ago, a woman is walking through undulating countryside with a grey horse, like Chautauqua.
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Pining for a lover
Last year someone at Dymocks bookstore in Collins St left a stray novel amongst those on the 2017 Stella Prize shortlist for women’s writing and the CBD News picked it up mistakenly out of the pile of hopefuls.
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Craft’s final exhibition of 2024 celebrates the narratives behind objects and art
Council seeks to make community consultation more transparent
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