The increasingly genteel neighbourhood that overlooks Eveleigh and Chippendale between North Newtown and Redfern bears witness to criminal behaviour with that domestic cultural icon, the milk crate, more wreckless NSW government behaviour and the imminent arrival of the Seven GroupAt the Redfernish end of Wilson Street, between Eveleigh Markets and the Foundry on Eve Street, I spotted a fiendish stacking of crates that spells out STOLEN in a naive font. In a curiously empty and wire-fenced yard of the old government department type and against the wall of what may once have been a Housing Commission warren of mock terraces, the crates display their subversive, self-aware message. Suspicious in the otherwise abandoned yard are a few of those knotted wood sculptures seen in the living rooms of Daoists and up-country hippies; looks like art is afoot.
Further down the street stands a Victorian two-storey balconied NSW Railways building under the shade of broadleaf trees. Boarded up and well on the way to delapidation, it's a boutique developer's heritage dream. What's going on there Minister Keneally?
Beyond the ridge that Wilson Street rides upon lies an even bigger developer's dream, but one that's about to come true: Seven Group's new HQ at 8 Central Ave. The building will house the staffs of Channel 7, Pacific Magazines and, eventually, Text Pacific Publishing.
Real estate directive? Buy now!
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