juicenewton* said about 4 years ago or at 10:54AM on Tuesday, February 3 2009 in competitions
It really doesn't matter how much they charge for apartments, or if they get a new shopping district (Costco? eeewww!), the whole place is a souless example of anti-design and town planning by new- money developers.
I had the misfortune to meet up someone who works down there and because it was 44 degrees proceeded to the closest bar called The Lounge (?) populated by future cast members of Underbelly pt. 3 (tribal sleeve tatts & throwing their keys to bar staff to move their v. expensive cars) and poor intl tourists who thought it was Melbourne.
What's the cure? Make it public housing for 30 years and let it go to the dogs, artists, homeless- ripe for revitalisation later on?
could you not go there anymore?
But it's such a blight, it makes Marvellous Melbourne less so.
Turn it into a minimum-security prison.
I hear they're trying to breed a super race down there.
(Completely hairless; bronzed.)
That area definately needs some low to medium cost housing for a start. The developers need to stop pretending that it's Darling Harbour - we are not fucking Sydney, that shit wont stand here. We dont have the number of tourists willing to throw money at semi-shit restaurants just because they serve fish and are on the water.
They need to bulldoze that big tent thing, the giant tv screens, the southern star, and all the shops around the southern star.
They need to allow for the area to grow organically - the area around the studios would be full off inner-city hipsters if there were converted warehouse buildings, or more interesting / affordable housing than fucking ugly high-rise shoebox living.
Docklands needs more Kensington / Footscray / Yarraville and less Darling Harbour.
Super race? Bah. I like my translucent jellyfish body and sporadic clumps of hair just fine, thank you very much.
Build an opera house and a great big bridge.
its melbourne, its a shitty country town at the arse-end of the world trying to big-note itself. suffer in your afl jocks you inbred hicks.
marvellous melbourne could use a few more cultural stains.
Once again, gardenia performing his witty repertoire. Never gets old, does it?
especially cos I used to wear AFL jocks when I was a kid.
The developers need to stop pretending that it's Darling Harbour
even darling harbour is soulless, docklands just takes it even further.
Would have been easy for you to hide the skiddies fishandfinger, although Hawthorn jocks would be the best at that.
Turn it into a Running Man style murder stadium.
I had Richmond ones, so I pretty much shat myself all the time because we lose so damn much. Nothing hides that. The only thing that got the stains out were tears.
If you're going to promote an area as a premium shopping centre than have premium shops - not discount outlets. You also need unique products - there was nothing for sale at Docklands that I couldn't buy in Shepparton.
The timing's not right for a premium-focussed precinct such as Docklands. It needs more genuinely compelling entertainment options that couldn't be found in any other inner-South nightlife district. It wastes its waterfront positioning somewhat, and lacks casual, non-commercial spaces for recreation. I think there's potential for it to improve, but it's a bit weird starting a new suburb from the top down.
I'm sick of shopping and scoffing being the only 'recreational' pursuits catered for.
Where is the jumping castle? The Totem tennis courts? The croquet lawn? The Speakers corner? the chess park?
contemplates running for Mayor
Wait for the area to become a proper slum / ghost town, then convert some of the derelict buildings into cheap artists' studios.
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Meh. It's only a disaster for the developers who expected to make a killing.
The Solution:
Shock Lands? More like Cock Lands...
Dock Glands
Re-open shed 14 to dance parties and get some mitsubishis from 1993.
Something like that would be great, even if it was temporary. It would be like fast-tracking that comment K2 made 2 years ago:
So they might start charging for the free tourist bus that stops in Harbour town. Traders upset. Poor Docklands.
still shit supposedly
that one's err, closer to home.
I have the misfortune of working there. My building is very nice inside, but, like all other constructions in the vicinity, an absolute eyesore on the exterior.
Fucken big boat on fire out the front of ANZ
Maybe it's Clive or Gina's.
Rising sea levels should take care of it nicely.
Did you hear how some of the blocks in the docklands went for 1 to $200 000?
Scam or what?
Maybe it's Clive or Gina's
Obviously the CIA didn't like being outed for their conspiracy with Greenpeace and sent a black ops team down to docklands.
It was the same one they used in their plot with Greenpeace to frame the French for Rainbow Warrior.
lowers venetian blind with finger, looks outside
X post- the rising sea level will take care of the docklands.
Who would want to live next to the stinky yarra/open drain?
Think there's a bomb threat - road blocked with cop cars and one of those robot cameras checking out a vehicle.
People actually raise their kids in the Docklands??
Fuck... poor little tykes.
Docklands Shuts Down Food Trucks, Empty Again
dumbos.