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Oh dear, others on the way?
After much-maligned dockless bicycle company oBike withdrew its Melbourne fleet in June, rival companies are preparing to enter the market.
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A marathon auction
The five-storey building at 220 Bourke St has been sold for more than $15million after a record-breaking auction process.
Read MoreThe ultimate obstacle course
How would you go wandering the streets of the CBD blindfolded, or traversing the busy footpaths in a wheelchair?
Read MoreBold proposal for the city’s tallest
The Royal Society of Victoria has floated a bold proposal for what would become Melbourne’s tallest skyscraper on one of the city’s smallest land plots.
Read MoreDid the earth move for you?
The facade is light brown stone with chiaroscuro in the monumental sunken windows at the top, which peek out above the trees of Swanston St like an alien intelligence.
Read MoreGough Music Spark
Jack Ladder surveyed the scene at Rocksteady Records, Mitchell House, Lonsdale St, CBD.
Read MoreMaking money by destroying culture
So, it seems that people have taken to advertising on street art hot spots. Paste up advertising or street advertising is killing much of the important lanes in the CBD and inner city.
Read MoreA royal couple
Janni and Sofia walk their two Jack Russell pups twice a day near their CBD home.
Read MoreMore large-scale proxy farming
In our April column we reported on two apartment buildings where owners were suffering after proxy farmers stitched up lucrative contracts.
Read MoreHeritage Victoria steps up
Some recent decisions affecting CBD heritage have affirmed that Heritage Victoria (HV) no longer wants to be seen as a rubber stamp – as many involved in heritage activism have thought it had become over the past decade.
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Fixing our health system
Melbourne Food and Wine Festival 2020
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