Pyrmont to see 4000 homes, 23,000 jobs as Metro west, The Star, Harbourside development underway
The Pyrmont Peninsula is set to be revolutionised as part of a multimillion-dollar renaissance, expected to bring thousands of homes as jobs in a series of major developments.
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The inner-city suburb of Pyrmont is set to be dramatically transformed into a new health and retail precinct – alongside hundreds of new homes in towering skyscrapers – as part of major redevelopment plans at the soon-to-be-built Sydney Metro West station.
Newly exhibited plans for the Pyrmont Metro station earmark several multistorey towers, reaching heights of up to 31 storeys, as well as a massive retail, health, and business precinct.
A NSW Government planner for the project said the Pyrmont Peninsula would be transformed into an “innovative, creative and cultural precinct and an engine room of the Eastern Harbour CBD” by 2041.
“A new harbourside precinct (will be) enabled by the metro station, focused on knowledge-intensive employment and supported by an active public domain and associated retail and residential”.
The major Sydney Metro West construction site – at 37-69 Union Street, Pyrmont – would include 45 one-, 91 two- and 24 three-bedroom apartments above an “anchor retail shopping site” and commercial offices as part of a transport orientated development above the station entrance.
More than 23,000 jobs and 4000 new homes are expected to be built in the Pyrmont Peninsula as part of a 20-year vision by the NSW Government, with the promise of a vibrant 24-hour hub featured in future plans for growth in Darling Island, Blackwattle Bay, Tumbalong Park, Ultimo, Pirrama, Pyrmont Village and Wentworth Park.
Meanwhile, the revitalised precinct will centre around a new six-star hotel, theatre, and a rooftop dining and event space at the soon-to-be redeveloped Star Casino, under-construction Sydney Fish Markets and the high-rise retail and residential tower at the Harbourside Shopping Centre development from Mirvac.
Pyrmont residents are baring the brunt of major excavation work at the future metro station site, with earthworks and structural work being carried out six days a week as an army of construction workers take over the site.
But locals told the Saturday Telegraph they were “in favour” of the plans to revolutionise Pyrmont.
25-year-old engineer Frank Lawson said the inner-city suburb “needed more development” like what was planned at the Metro station site.
“I think it’s net positive, I’m sure some homeowners will have a whine about it,” the 25-year-old said. “But compare it to Victoria station in Crows Nest and how positive that has been for the precinct and community.
“We need the Sydney West Metro.”
While retail-worker Georffrey Boscoe, 26, said the redevelopment of the suburb was a long time coming.
“I’d probably still be working in Pyrmont if the Metro site was around, would have made my life far easier,” he said. “The development of the towers and the precinct as well turns it into something more than just a train station, it’s an opportunity to build up the areas character.”
A Sydney Metro spokesman said Metro stations were being designed to integrate with their surrounding area, “to make vibrant and attractive precincts”.
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