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Homelessness

June 25th, 2020 - CBD News

It only happens to the lazy. It only happens to the drug addled. It only happens to those that can only be described as a burden on society.

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Getting creative with jobs support

June 25th, 2020 - CBD News

The Metro Tunnel Project will provide a huge boost to the Victorian arts community in the coming months, with more than $150,000 of new commissions announced for local artists.

Folia House returns after QVM reopens for specialty traders

June 25th, 2020 - Katie Johnson

For a long 11 weeks, Queen Victoria Market’s (QVM’s) beloved plant store, Folia House, was forced to keep its doors shut due to coronavirus restrictions.

City folk return to the arcades

June 25th, 2020 - Rhonda Dredge

The grace of the CBD is undeniably in its arcades but these grand urban spaces from the days of polite society are usually too full of tourists to be that attractive to local city folk.

Angst over injecting room site

June 25th, 2020 - David Schout

The Andrews government has nominated a CBD site for the state’s second medically supervised injecting room (MSIR), but a number of key stakeholders have raised concerns about the location.

Customs Square’s new life

June 25th, 2020 - Meg Hill

A piece of dead space CBD land has been picked as the site for Melbourne’s first “social enterprise cluster” in a new proposal by Good Cycles.

“Carparking is not heritage”: Market Square charter endorsed

June 25th, 2020 - Sean Car

The City of Melbourne has finally adopted the charter for its new public open space at Queen Victoria Market (QVM) after a majority of councillors voted in favour of the initiative.

Residents seek exemption U-turn

June 25th, 2020 - David Schout

CBD residents angered by plans to turn the 1840s built Job Warehouse into an almost 1000-patron bar will ask the new Minister for Consumer Affairs, Gaming and Liquor Regulation Melissa Horne to change the 3am liquor licence exemption granted by now resigned minister Marlene Kairouz.