The nation’s biggest sporting codes are backing calls by a consortium of high-profile investors to reverse new laws for the Moore Park precinct which they argue threaten a $2 billion redevelopment of the Entertainment Quarter.
The proposed Carsingha redevelopment would include tree-lined boulevards, a cafe strip, a multi-storey hotel and offices for creative industries workers. Senior officials from the sporting alliance and Carsingha Investments, a consortium behind the Entertainment Quarter, will appear before a parliamentary inquiry into the Bill on Thursday.
Moore Park has been one of the most contested parklands in Australia, and a battle over on-grass car parking dates back decades. It has rejected suggestions that the nearby Randwick Racecourse be used as an alternative parking site. Community group Saving Moore Park, which has fought for years for the removal of on-grass parking, said there would still be an ample supply of car spaces in the Moore Park precinct once temporary parking during events ceased.Upper house Greens MP David Shoebridge said the debate over the future of Moore Park exposed the struggle between competing interests of politics, sport and big business.
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