No takers for Melbourne icon a year after wheel stopped turning

No takers for Melbourne icon a year after wheel stopped turning

The Melbourne Star observation wheel was one of the city’s most high-profile victims of repeated COVID-19 lockdowns,closing last year with multimillion-dollar debt.

  • byRebecca Sadique andBianca Hall

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E-gate:The inner Melbourne suburb that could have been

E-gate:The inner Melbourne suburb that could have been

Melbourne’s newly released 20-year plan states that no one will be living in E-Gate in 20 years. What happened to the grand plans for this “eco” suburb?

  • byRachael Dexter andPatrick Hatch
‘I don’t know what to do’:The Melbourne suburbs where rents have risen most

‘I don’t know what to do’:The Melbourne suburbs where rents have risen most

Rents have risen in the majority of Melbourne’s suburbs over the past year,offering little respite to priced-out tenants searching for affordable options.

  • byMelissa Heagney
Southern Cross is grim,grimy and depressing. Melbourne deserves better
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Southern Cross is grim,grimy and depressing. Melbourne deserves better

After moving out of Melbourne to a regional city,I’ve discovered the joys and delights of Southern Cross Station,of which there are none.

  • byEmily Day
Melbourne’s home of film production gets new $46M studio

Melbourne’s home of film production gets new $46M studio

Docklands’ Sound Stage 6 launched on Saturday,with the film production facility already booked as the location for a new biopic about English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams.

  • byAshleigh McMillan
Rooftop park solution to Docklands space squeeze

Rooftop park solution to Docklands space squeeze

Australia’s largest elevated park is going to be built at Waterfront City in Docklands in a bid to counter the lack of open space and parkland in the area.

  • byCara Waters
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Swarm welcome:Drone show ready to light up city after NYE grounding

Swarm welcome:Drone show ready to light up city after NYE grounding

The Docklands drone swarm will give its debut performance on Saturday,with 350 drones buzzing into the city sky to create colourful light displays after COVID-19 woes stopped a planned New Year’s Eve event.

  • byMarta Pascual Juanola
‘Lights will not come on tonight’:Melbourne Star goes dark as operator enters liquidation

‘Lights will not come on tonight’:Melbourne Star goes dark as operator enters liquidation

The wheel that has lit up Melbourne’s skyline for more than a decade has gone dark as the company that runs the landmark tourist attraction goes into liquidation.

  • byCassandra Morgan
Once a growing office precinct,Docklands feels ‘dead’

Once a growing office precinct,Docklands feels ‘dead’

Almost half of all shopfronts in Docklands were closed or vacant in December,making it one of the precincts worst affected by COVID-19 restrictions.

  • byRachel Eddie,Bianca Hall andCraig Butt
Stars player concerned at'horrendous'Marvel Stadium turf

Stars player concerned at'horrendous'Marvel Stadium turf

The Marvel Stadium turf has been labelled"horrendous"by Melbourne Stars batsman Nick Larkin after he created a large divot while trying to prevent a boundary late in Wednesday night's Big Bash League derby.

  • byDaniel Cherny
Central Pier closure came suddenly,urgently,but after years of warnings
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Central Pier closure came suddenly,urgently,but after years of warnings

The Victorian government agency in charge of the shuttered Central Pier at Docklands knew for almost a year that the 100-year-old structure was at"extreme"risk of collapse.

  • byChris Vedelago