Debate on the future of Blacktown Central Business District.
There are two schools of thought: traditional CBD development with a series of tall buildings that generates jobs where developers design what they believe we ought to have or the alternative model of a transparent master planned Central Living District through a design competition that addresses entertainment, residential, car parking and jobs in a holistic modern way.
What is a Central Living District and how could it work in Blacktown?
https://www.greaterblacktownnews.com.au/our-evolving-city?limit=7&start=7
https://www.greaterblacktownnews.com.au/our-evolving-city/item/2250-youthy-want-a-say-in-cbd-future
Traditional CBD development
https://www.greaterblacktownnews.com.au/featured/item/2260-coucnil-backs-walkers-cbd-vision
Bowman Hall
The birth of modern Australia as Gough Whitlam launched the Labor party campaign in 1972 outlining a modern vision of a multicultural Australia
Council’s response that Bowman Hall & Whitlam legacy can live on in if it is bulldozed:
https://www.greaterblacktownnews.com.au/our-evolving-city/item/2290-whitlam-legacy-will-live-on
