WACA Redevelopment Update

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Homes, cafes in $550m revamp of the WACA

A first glance of the multi-milliondollar WACA Ground redevelopment will be unveiled today.

The images, which coincide with the release of design guidelines for the overarching Riverside precinct plan, show how the WACA will be transformed by six residential and commercial towers of up to 20 storeys and an eight-storey northern grandstand.

The WACA will enter a partnership with Ascot Capital to build the project, which is valued conservatively at $550 million for the stand and three of the towers.

It will be put to members for approval in the New Year.

WACA chief executive Graeme Wood has said the WACA had to redevelop the ground if cricket was to remain at its historic East Perth HQ.

The State Government will today initiate a nine-week public comment period on planning scheme amendments for the Riverside precinct and The Link project in Northbridge.

The $880 million Riverside precinct plan sets out future development for a 40ha area at the eastern end of Perth’s CBD and incorporates the WACA Ground as well as plans for Gloucester Park and Trinity College.

It includes about 3400 dwellings for about 5800 people and plans for three 30 storey towers, 30,000sqm of commercial space for about 1700 workers, main street shopping and a “waterbank precinct” comprising cafes and restaurants around an artificial inlet.

The Link project will result in 1650 dwellings housing more than 3000 residents and provide for 244,000sqm of commercial and retail floor space and 4.5ha of public open space over 13.5ha.

Planning Minister John Day said yesterday the Riverside precinct and The Link were “critical regeneration projects that will deliver much needed social and economic benefits to the community” through more housing, jobs and office space.

He said current economic conditions may slow the projects but they were long-term visions.

Works and land sales for the waterbank precinct — the next phase of the Riverside project — would begin next year along with work on the Milligan Street precinct in Northbridge.

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Dello's firing today. That was a quick execution.

That looks like something Mike Brady would come up with

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In the first pic it looks like the WACA loses two light towers.

Zat wrote:In the first pic it looks like the WACA loses two light towers.

Aye, but they are back in other pics...

eponymous wrote:

Zat wrote:In the first pic it looks like the WACA loses two light towers.

Aye, but they are back in other pics...

Will they be buying the old retractable light towers from the Adelaide Oval?

Perhaps they plan to remove some? Subi only needs four light towers because they where built a good ten years after the WACA lights.

Is Perth made of lego?

I don't understand why "eponymous" and "guest" can't merely be Zim.