❓ Ms. Evangel asks for an update on the Yagan Square project within Perth City Link. The Minister for Planning provides a detailed response highlighting progress, including the release of an EOI for food and beverage tenancies and the expected opening date.
AnsweredQoN 831Legislative Assembly
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PERTH CITY
LINK — YAGAN SQUARE
831. Ms E. EVANGEL to the
Minister for Planning:
I understand that plans for Yagan Square at Perth City Link
are progressing well. Could the minister please provide the house with an
update on this exciting city project?
Ms
M.M. Quirk interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I call you to order for the first time.
LINK — YAGAN SQUARE
831. Ms E. EVANGEL to the
Minister for Planning:
I understand that plans for Yagan Square at Perth City Link
are progressing well. Could the minister please provide the house with an
update on this exciting city project?
Ms
M.M. Quirk interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Member for Girrawheen, I call you to order for the first time.
AnswerView source ↗
Yagan Square will be a very interesting, active and exciting
destination within the Perth CBD as part of the Perth City Link project, of
course. One particular aspect is a market hall to be contained within Yagan
Square, and I am very pleased to advise today that an expression-of-interest
request has been released by the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority seeking
potential business operators interested in opening food and beverage tenancies
within Yagan Square. This will be situated within the arms of the Horseshoe
Bridge, as part of what will be Perth City Link's flagship public
space. The central feature of Yagan Square, as I said, will be a large market
hall that will have a focus on selling and promoting Western Australian
produce. The public space will also include cafes, bars, restaurants, event and
performance spaces, and landscaped areas for relaxation, children's
play and public art.
The EOI request that has been put out calls for the leasing
of 25 tenancies within the square, and they will include tenancies within the
market hall, some within the plaza of Yagan Square and in the new public
meeting place that will be created on the rooftop of the market hall and rail
tunnel. There will be tenancies in Horseshoe lane, which will be a new laneway
constructed between the Horseshoe Bridge and the market hall, together with
pop-up and temporary tenancies. As I said, there will be 25 different tenancies
available for small to larger retailers, and they will offer fantastic
opportunities for people to establish new businesses in a very active and
exciting part of the Perth CBD. A particular focus will be on showcasing
Western Australian food and wine to both local residents and visitors. I think
that this project will help to build on Western Australia's reputation
for great food and will no doubt boost culinary tourism and support growth in
the Western Australian tourism industry. Coincidentally, Mr Speaker, the event
that was held in the courtyard here last evening, put on by the Royal Agricultural
Society with some of the outstanding food and beverage producers from Western Australia,
has relevance to the sorts of offerings that will be provided within Yagan
Square.
A lead contractor will be appointed shortly for construction
of Yagan Square itself, and the square is expected to be open to the public in
the first half of 2017. The Perth City Link project as a whole is going very
well. It has been under construction now for about four to five years. Of course,
the underground rail section is completed; the busport will be finished by the
middle of next year; Perth Arena, at the western end of Perth City Link, has
proved to be very successful; and the office buildings within Kings Square are
close to completion and fitting out and will be occupied in the early part of
next year. The market hall with the food and beverage tenancies within Yagan
Square really will be a food lover's paradise and will be a very
exciting part of Perth to be in from early 2017.
destination within the Perth CBD as part of the Perth City Link project, of
course. One particular aspect is a market hall to be contained within Yagan
Square, and I am very pleased to advise today that an expression-of-interest
request has been released by the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority seeking
potential business operators interested in opening food and beverage tenancies
within Yagan Square. This will be situated within the arms of the Horseshoe
Bridge, as part of what will be Perth City Link's flagship public
space. The central feature of Yagan Square, as I said, will be a large market
hall that will have a focus on selling and promoting Western Australian
produce. The public space will also include cafes, bars, restaurants, event and
performance spaces, and landscaped areas for relaxation, children's
play and public art.
The EOI request that has been put out calls for the leasing
of 25 tenancies within the square, and they will include tenancies within the
market hall, some within the plaza of Yagan Square and in the new public
meeting place that will be created on the rooftop of the market hall and rail
tunnel. There will be tenancies in Horseshoe lane, which will be a new laneway
constructed between the Horseshoe Bridge and the market hall, together with
pop-up and temporary tenancies. As I said, there will be 25 different tenancies
available for small to larger retailers, and they will offer fantastic
opportunities for people to establish new businesses in a very active and
exciting part of the Perth CBD. A particular focus will be on showcasing
Western Australian food and wine to both local residents and visitors. I think
that this project will help to build on Western Australia's reputation
for great food and will no doubt boost culinary tourism and support growth in
the Western Australian tourism industry. Coincidentally, Mr Speaker, the event
that was held in the courtyard here last evening, put on by the Royal Agricultural
Society with some of the outstanding food and beverage producers from Western Australia,
has relevance to the sorts of offerings that will be provided within Yagan
Square.
A lead contractor will be appointed shortly for construction
of Yagan Square itself, and the square is expected to be open to the public in
the first half of 2017. The Perth City Link project as a whole is going very
well. It has been under construction now for about four to five years. Of course,
the underground rail section is completed; the busport will be finished by the
middle of next year; Perth Arena, at the western end of Perth City Link, has
proved to be very successful; and the office buildings within Kings Square are
close to completion and fitting out and will be occupied in the early part of
next year. The market hall with the food and beverage tenancies within Yagan
Square really will be a food lover's paradise and will be a very
exciting part of Perth to be in from early 2017.
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