There are hopes a 14-storey premium office building made of sustainable materials proposed by a Hong Kong developer will breathe new life into the barren Perth City Link.
A third senior executive at the City of Perth is leaving the organisation with planning and economic development general manager Jayson Miragliotta the latest to exit.
The City of Perth has dipped into its budget surplus to try and bring the WA Day festival celebrations back into the CBD.
The local government has appointed a general counsel six months after a state inquiry into the organisation was finalised.
The plan to build a new $100 million pool at the WACA ground and go ahead with a broader $1.5 billion Perth City Deal could be delayed for months over a tiff between different levels of government.
The remaining fraud charges against former City of Perth councillor Jim Adamos stemming from a lengthy and expensive inquiry into the dysfunctional local government have been dropped.
Community development general manager Anne Banks-McAllister will leave the local government just three months after infrastructure general manager Chris Kopec quit.
Lyndsey Chappels created the petition about a week ago after learning the charity had wound up the mobile food service service it had run since 2013.
The City of Perth administration will present a 12-month action plan which will include'rough sleeper reduction targets in defined areas and CBD hotspots'.
Advertising campaigns for the first half of 2021 will be put on hold while $280,000 worth of new lighting installations could be installed around the city.
A July survey of the local government's staff found morale had not improved much prior to a new council and chief executive taking over.