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Street-by-Street: City Centre

Encompassing the commercial and business district of
Sydney, the comparatively small city centre of this sprawling
metropolis is squeezed within just a few blocks. Because
Sydney grew in a haphazard fashion, with many of today’s
streets following tracks originally made by bullocks, there
was no allowance for the expansion of the burgeoning city
into what has become a major international centre. The
streets used to empty at night after workers and shoppers
retreated to the suburbs. However, a booming population
and the growing appeal of living in the city centre is driving
a renaissance, with an emerging vibrant night scene of cafés, 2 . Queen Victoria Building
bars, restaurants and cultural venues. Rapid development of Taking up an entire city block, this
high-rise apartments has been accompanied by plans to 1898 former produce market has
pedestrianize the major boulevard, George Street, by 2019. been lovingly restored and is now
a shopping mall.

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3 State Theatre Y O R K S T R E E T
A gem from the era when the movies
reigned, this glittering and richly P I T T S T R E E T
dec orated 1929 cinema was once hailed
as “the Empire’s greatest theatre”.

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Town Hall
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Suggested route E L I Z A B E T H S T R E E T

The Queen Victoria Statue was P A R K S T R E E T
found after a worldwide search
in 1983 ended in a small Irish
village. It had lain forgotten and 1 Marble Bar
neglected since being removed Once a landmark bar in the 1893
from the front of the Irish Tattersalls Hotel, it was dismantled and
Parliament in 1947. re-erected in the Sydney Hilton in 1973.

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