Hoyts cinema and new restaurants part of $150m development at Harbour Town in Docklands
WORK is to start on two new precincts — one for entertainment, the other for food — in a $150 million development at Harbour Town in Docklands.
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WORK will start today on two new precincts — one for entertainment, the other for food — in a $150 million development at Harbour Town in Docklands.
The additions will aim to lure tourists and shoppers to the area, as well as residents and workers. The Harbour Town shopping zone, at the western edge of Docklands, will even get a new name later this year.
A new eight-screen Hoyts cinema will be the centre of attention in the entertainment zone when it opens in the middle of next year.
Other new Harbour Town tenants include FunLab, the company behind Strike bowling and Holey Moley mini golf, a well as Asian hawker-style restaurant 8Eight Street and Route66 pancake house.
The precincts will be built next to the Melbourne Star Observation Wheel and O’Brien Group Arena, formerly the Medibank Icehouse.
The existing arcades lined with 110 specialty shops will remain but a roof will provide shelter for shoppers in some areas.
Alton Abrahams, principal of Harbour Town owner AsheMorgan, said the changes would make the centre an even more appealing destination..
“With the marked shift of the CBD workforce towards the Docklands, the opportunity is ripe for Docklands to become
Melbourne’s gateway to the west,’’ Mr Abrahams said.
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