Beasley Hutton wrote:
Bazza wrote:
DD wrote: Can someone explain to me in English please, what is good about Elizabeth Quay? I drive around it often, sometimes through it and I never feel the urge to stop and take a look around. In other words, nothing to see here.
The only time it draws people in is when there’s a pop up event there on vacant lots. But when those lots are not vacant anymore and occupied by glass towers full of offices and apartments then what? The place is sterile.
Still a work on progress DD, the Carlton Ritz is looking great and a real asset, Chevrons new build is starting as well which will add hundreds of workers to the precinct, there's still the blocks at the far end to fill but that wont be far off..
The Mrs and I got the ferry from South Perth across and then had a few beers at the Island Bar and Brewery which is really pleasant looking at the lights of the City.
EQ was long overdue for that precinct and is far far better than that boring patch of grass that used to waste away there, as you say though still a work in progress but will be fantastic when it is eventually finished with plenty of bars, restaurants, eateries right on the picturesque Swan River in the CBD, similar to Perth's version of Darling Harbour in Sydney.
You can tie the boat up at the bottom of the Reveley and walk straight in for a drink and a feed or 20m away is the The Island Brewery or a small stroll past the Bell Tower to the Lucky Shag where a hotel (Double-Tree Hilton) is being built next door or there is the Rooftop bar up at the Ritz Carlton.
I hope they do keep some green space around there for pop up events like the Fringe Festival etc and it is not all taken up by buildings.
Hopefully a chairlift from Kings Park to EQ is in the pipeline eventually as well.
Perth City desperately needed revitalised entertainment/nightlife precincts like EQ & Yagan Square not only for our very own residents but tourists as well as we were being left for dead by Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane in that space. I wouldnt stop there as well there is plenty more we can do in around the CBD & Fremantle as well which has become stagnant.
Yeah, people crack me up saying EQ is sterile, ffs, what was more sterile than a patch of half dead grass that was hardly ever used, it was decades over due and as you say they Jetty is also value adding with another Hotel.
I havent been inside the carlton ritz as yet but walking past it looks world class.
We have had some tremendous value added to the city last decade or so, EQ and Yagan is also a bonus area, love the renovated Royal Hotel just opened as well.
The new Museum will revitalize the Cultural Precinct which was in bad need of help, unfortunately the brown block brutalist library and art gallery and 70s style concrete paving done cheap hasnt dated well and needs a big facelift.
The next area that needs a big clean up for mine is Northbridge, its looking run down and grotty.
I see they are doing a big upgrade on Wellington Square which is great.
Still plenty of value to add, the biggest and most important to me is to re think the entire Fremanntle Harbour, its time to make it a world class Cruise Port with harbour side living and remove the containers and heavy freight.
