City of Palmerston | Elton Consulting is proud to have created a vision and provided planning, consultation and project management services for the City Centre Master Plan and delivery of projects. We collaborate and think strategically to: • create great places and facilities for people • develop plans and strategies that work • communicate and engage meaningfully with clients, communities and stakeholders • improve communities, services, systems and organisations • design materials that bring projects to life. Elton Consulting is pleased to work with City of Palmerston www.elton.com.au Darwin | Sydney | Canberra YOUNG AND GROWING September 2016. “Once this project is completed, council will have spent $16 million on upgrading its CBD to provide better facilities for our residents,” he reports. “That’s very exciting for us.” Other recent or upcoming developments that have the City of Palmerston excited include: the recently-opened Rydges Palmerston Hotel; a new $20 million Woolworths under construction in the inner-city suburb of Bakewell; the $88 million Tiger Brennan Drive Duplication, which will improve traffic flow from Darwin to Palmerston; the $21 million Bellamack Special School; and two more new schools currently being planned in the recently-created suburb of Zuccoli. Development consent has also been received for the landmark ‘Boulevard Plaza’ complex in the centre of the Palmerston CBD. This project in excess of $150 million will include high-rise buildings incorporating mixed uses of residential, retail and commercial. The NT Government has recently committed $57m on a series of road improvements in Palmerston aimed at boosting safety and productivity and to ensure the road network keeps pace with the rapid development. “There’s a lot happening right now – and there’s a lot that’s going to happen,” Ricki says. “There are a lot of outcomes we’re looking for in our master plan and we’re well on our way to achieving them.” Moving forward, Ricki says that the council’s vision remains centred on the CBD. In particular, they hope to see mixed-use highrise development take place in the land that remains vacant, and they are currently seeking expressions of interest from developers with the financial capacity and experience to take that kind of work on. “Our goal is to give the CBD a bit more vitality by having people live within it,” Ricki says. “We believe there are great opportunities for residential living. We have large developments happening on the fringes, including the new
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