According to The Age Newspaper today:
" A skyscraper taller than Melbourne Central shopping centre will soon rise above the CBD. The Department of Planning yesterday granted the Brady property group a permit to construct what would be Melbourne's fifth-tallest skyscraper, on Elizabeth Street. The 67-storey development, opposite the Queen Victoria Market, will be on the site of the old Stork Hotel, which has been approved for demolition. The pub has operated for 150 years but is not heritage protected because of modifications to the building in 1925. "
152 years to be exact. This place served people on the way to Ballarat and Bendigo during the gold rush.
Considering 150 years is most of this city's history... this demolition is obscene.
Part of the character of Melbourne is its beautiful old buildings.
" City planning activist Maureen Capp, of Residents Rights, said city sites were being overdeveloped, leaving an ''ugly legacy for future generations''.
''The city is just being decimated of all its lovely old buildings and history,'' she said. "
Bloody oath it is.
And has anyone considered this is one less place to drink?
The justification? Construction jobs.
What? you couldn't construct anything anywhere else in the whole bloody state of Victoria?
Fucking developers.
Infuriating isn’t it? This happens in the U.S. constantly; developers destroying history and even important natural resources to build more useless buildings.
ReplyDeleteLas Vegas is notorious for destroying history in the name of modernization and expansion. About three years ago, an entire neighborhood was demolished under the guise that McCarran International Airport needed to expand.
Every house in the neighborhood was confiscated by the county government under emanate domain laws commonly used in the U.S. in favor of private businesses and developers citing “the public’s interest outweighs the personal needs.”
The houses were destroyed and instead of airport expansion, they created yet another strip mall and called it Airport Center. There are so many strip malls in Las Vegas that most are constantly advertising for renters, even when the economy was booming, yet we needed one more.
"emanate domain laws commonly used in the U.S. in favor of private businesses and developers citing “the public’s interest outweighs the personal needs” ".
ReplyDelete"but let's not have 'socialism' "... oh no.