St Hilliers survey asks people for views on Gosford CBD future
The company charged with building a multimillion-dollar office building on key Gosford waterfront land wants to know what Coasties think the city CBD should look like.
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The company charged with building a multimillion-dollar office building on key Gosford waterfront land wants to know what Coasties think the city CBD should look like.
Developer and construction firm St Hilliers won the right to build a six-level, 7000 sqm mixed used commercial building on the former Gosford Public School site — along side the controversial ATO building.
The private developer paid just under $10 million for the 1.1-hectare site and plans to develop about 250 units and retail space in future stages of the project.
Ground work has already begun at the $50 million dollar development but the company is now trying to determine what residents want the area to look and feel like and is running an online survey which closes on Sunday.
The survey is being promoted by Raine and Horne Commerical which is handling the tendering process for potential cafe and restaurants tenants in the building.
Brett Hunter of Raine and Horne at Terrigal said the survey asked a series of questions about how people currently perceived the area and about the kind of services and experiences they thought were be missing.
He said they survey then asked survey participants to choose from a variety of pictures of other well known urban destinations which might reflect some of what they want in Gosford.
“St Hilliers are very keen to understand what people know about Gosford now, but more importantly what Gosford wants for the future,” Mr Hunter said.
“There’s a Melbourne feel to some of the photos and there’s a Newtown ilk to some of the photos, and some of them have that Bondi-Bronte feel — where do you want to see Gosford go?
Mr Hunter said the general concept for the development would be a “vertical village” containing a mix of facilities.
“You will be able to shop, go to cafes and restaurants, children’s playgrounds — units with great views of the water and linking with what ever happens on the foreshore — such as a performing arts centre, outdoor art and that kind of thing.”
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