Page 270 - Week 01 - Thursday, 24 February 1994
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Boulevard Car Park Site
MRS GRASSBY: My question is to the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning. Can the Minister inform the house about the section 52 car park opposite the Boulevard which the Government repurchased some time ago? Is there to be any redevelopment on that site?
Mr Kaine: That would be a good place for a hospice, Bill.
MR WOOD: It is a good place and I should think it is appropriate for hotel accommodation or serviced apartments - certainly for accommodation. It is the case that the Department of the Environment, Land and Planning is now drawing up appropriate development conditions for that site. It is then likely to be released for restricted auction, and I think that would happen before the middle of the year.
Garema Place Redevelopment
MS SZUTY: My question also is to the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning, Mr Wood. Many months ago now the Minister announced a study into the future development of Garema Place. My question to the Minister is: What progress has been made to date on the study by consultants Mitchell Giurgola and Thorp, and when might the ACT community and members of this Assembly be informed of the results?
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, in fact there are three studies affecting Garema Place, City Walk and adjacent areas. It is the case that the one Ms Szuty referred to was the first of those studies and it led to a second, which was a marketing study. It was found out very early in the process that we needed to engage the cooperation of the private sector. We can propose all sorts of things for Garema Place, but unless we can get the cooperation of the shopkeepers and the owners, the lessees in that area, we can do only a limited amount. A number of meetings were called.
There was another consultancy, I think with Jones Lang Wootton, who approached the owners in the area with an aim of developing a more coherent path. I suppose the best model is that of the Brisbane city mall, which is a cooperative effort between the owners in the area and the Brisbane City Council. The owners contribute very substantially, as does the council, to the improvement and the maintenance of that mall, and we thought it was appropriate to go down that path too. Needless to say, it is not particularly easy, with a quite large number of owners around Garema Place, to get their endorsement, let alone some action. That was that side of it. As well as that, the Mitchell Giurgola and Thorp one related to some of the more physical aspects of what we can do.
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