Big tick for Promenade park, but development concerns remain
By David Schout
While plans for a new 30-storey Riverside Quay development include a large public park along Southbank Promenade, Eureka Tower residents have expressed concern about overshadowing.
City of Melbourne councillors endorsed the 120-metre commercial development at the former home of ExxonMobil at 12 Riverside Quay, which would include 1000 sqm of green space with sweeping views out onto the Yarra River and the CBD.
Plans for the site, bought by Macau billionaire Keong Kuong Loi in 2016, would also include improved pedestrian links at the edges of the site, which the council’s planning chair Nicholas Reece said was “particularly welcome”.
But some residents at Eureka Tower expressed concern about the daylight impact of the development,...
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