A lot of Sydney’s growth too will go to Redfern.
Redfern’s in the news, looking 25
years ahead major commercial
redevelopment of Redfern.
It’s inevitable.
First because of the public
transport focus, second because of its proximity to the investment being rolled out of the Australian
Technology Park
and three because it is the obvious place to take a rollover, spill over of the
commercial investment in Sydney’s
Central Business District.
For those of you investing in
property, the compression in Sydney’s
CBD will be relieved by the growth of the centres and the movement of investment
to Redfern.
If you want to measure of how the quality of life will be better
pollution totally banished, sustainability written into all our planning and
all our development but third a
massive enhancement of our cultural
facilities.
Now think how far we’ve come by way of measurement in the last 25 years.
You go back 25 years and Darling Harbour was a railway goods yard, can
you believe it.
There was a rotting, crumbling
corrugated iron railway goods yard at Darling Harbour.
The Conservatorium of Music was a
disgrace, water logged, rundown, third world conditions.
The Finger Wharves at Walsh Bay
were rotting away, Woolloomooloo too.
In the area between Sydney and its Airport you
had an old fashioned crumbling industrial structure with tanneries generating
an noisome environment.
Hard to believe.
That was the old clapped out
economy.
The new Sydney’s we’ve got reflects the new transformed economically liberalised society we Australians
of our generation have built for ourselves.
A similar transformation will take
place over the next 25 years.