North Sydney Council, Business Sydney and Lendlease released a special paper on 11 March calling for Miller Street to become a people-friendly plaza that could rival that of cities worldwide.
Mayor Zoe Baker said that giving North Sydney a pedestrian precinct to bring workers, students and residents together was an idea that had been championed since the 1970s. With the recent opening of the Victoria Cross Metro Station the need for a vibrant outdoor space was only growing in momentum.
“More than $11 billion in investment has catapulted North Sydney into being the second fastest growing CBD in Australia and the opening of the Metro has brought North Sydney even closer to the rest of Sydney,” Mayor Baker said.
“Miller Place is vital to injecting vitality into the North Sydney CBD. Existing restaurants and bars will be joined by a variety of new food and beverage offerings for residents, visitors and, importantly, the 80,000 workers and 12,000 schoolchildren who commute to North Sydney each day.”
Paul Nicolaou, Executive Director of Business Sydney, said the proposed “Miller Street Plaza would add around 7500 square metres of open space giving North Sydney the beating heart of a major CBD.”
“With thousands of Metro passengers coming and going each day, it makes all the sense in the world to have an area of open space at its proverbial ‘front door.’”
Lendlease has plans to make the pedestrian plaza part of the overall project at Victoria Cross as part of the area’s transformation into a round-the-clock precinct.
Project Director of Victoria Cross Alex Frankl said: “It would be a huge asset to have additional space for our roughly 5,000 workers to spend their breaks, meetings or time outside of work hours and will complement the six new restaurants due to open on Miller Street in early 2026.”