Waverley Council | ALWAYS IMPROVING ing in additional hotel accommodations to Bondi Junction to cater to the growing number of visitors. Currently, only about 100,000 out of the three million or so visitors to the region each year stay overnight, and Council is hopeful that the addition of a five-star hotel might encourage more visitors to extend their stay in Waverley instead of just visiting for the day. With great foresight, Waverley Council purchased a number of properties throughout Bondi Junction well before a number of upper class developments transformed the suburb into one of the premium destinations in New South Wales. Many of them are investment properties used to generate funds to provide additional services to the community, whilst others are currently under consideration for repurposing as part of Council’s Bondi Junction Civic Heart project. “That project follows our Bondi Junction Vision for 2030 work that we did with the community, where we rebranded Bondi Junction as the heartbeat of the east, being the area’s major economic strategic centre,” says Peter. Council has allocated $60 million for the Civic Heart project, which is still in the planning
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