Are new high-rises and a station enough to bring life to North Sydney?

North Sydney is set to be transformed by billions of dollars of office and residential tower projects, but critics question whether the building boom will revive a CBD still suffering from the COVID-19 crisis and years of bad planning.

North Sydney mayor Zoe Baker said the new Metro station will provide more rapid access to the commercial district as well as nearby schools. It is also the impetus for Miller Place – a new public space that Baker said “will create a true centre to the CBD”. North Sydney mayor Zoe Baker said plans to improve the CBD will be undermined if the Western Harbour Tunnel access on Berry Street goes ahead.North Sydney federal MP Kylea Tink also highlighted concerns about traffic and infrastructure planning on the North Sydney CBD.

Forrest said taller towers would pay for more public open space “but most of all, mixed use development with apartments are desperately needed to breathe life into what has become a city without soul”. Committee for North Sydney president Geoff Hanmer said the North Sydney CBD is “a mess – cut in half by busy roads, the configuration of buildings preventing what could be spectacular views of the harbour, the Opera House, the Bridge and the city”.

“Serious thought should be given to roofing over the Warringah Freeway and making a grand open space to the east of the CBD,” he said.

_andrew Given the North Sydney CBD has been turned into a collection of 'sunless wind tunnels' through the building of large office towers, adding even bigger high-rise towers will not help. Just try walking up Pacific Hwy from Miller St if you want a depressing environment!

_andrew The best places in North Sydney: Commodore Hotel (and shops across the road), Greenwood Plaza, that strip of shops facing the city, some cafes facing Monte, etc. All of this existed before the highrise mania

_andrew The CBD ghost towns are already pre-programmed anyway. None of the organizations mentioned in the article have spent even 1 minute to think where the dispatchable power will come from as old coal power clunkers shut down Urban_Taskforce KyleaTink GetRealNorthSyd SydneyMetro

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