Hassell\u2019s ideas for Bakery Hill has won the firm the contract to begin final designs on rejuvenating the area. Image: SUPPLIED<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMark Haycox, principal at Hassell said he was looking forward to the opportunity to bring a different life to the area while acknowledging on the space\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re rapt, actually,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re building on the work that the City of Ballarat has been doing for a number of years now.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe came forward with a response based on looking at the history, the stories, the narrative of all the different layers of cultural values associated with Ballarat.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always been a meeting place, a place where goods and services and ideas were exchanged right at the very heart of Ballarat\u2019s European heritage, but before that it goes back millennia in terms of the natural and cultural values associated with traditional owners.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hassell was awarded the contract for the Bakery Hill project through a competitive design process that began late last year.<\/p>\n
As part of that the firm had to incorporate some must haves in the project that included reopening Bridge Mall to traffic, and uncovering the Yarrowee River.<\/p>\n
A further community consultation process will now take place and Mr Haycox said it would be a balancing act to incorporate the often-varied feedback from across the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the art of design,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s the game we play. Design is a process and a problem-solving tool.<\/p>\n
\u201cA successful project is based on broad base of support for a vision, a shared vision and that shared vision can only be enacted upon when there is that broad base of support.\u201d<\/p>\n
City of Ballarat mayor Cr Ben Taylor said the Bakery Hill precinct, and Bridge Mall especially, was primed for a rejuvenation.<\/p>\n
Yet what form it would take he\u2019ll leave up to the community feedback process.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s still no locked in designs,\u201d Cr Taylor said. \u201cHassell\u2019s process was around their vision and their understanding of what could be seen here.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow the next stages are doing more consultation, and then we\u2019ll get some more detailed design around what it\u2019s going to look like because we can\u2019t leave it as it is, we\u2019ve heard that loud and clear from the community.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bridge Mall Traders Association welcomed the announcement and the plans to renovate the area.<\/p>\n
Spokesperson Shane Donnithorne has two retail spaces in the Mall. He said a revamp of the area was much needed, and his group had some ideas on what form that might take.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been faced with a downturn in foot traffic in the Mall which has happened over the last five years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs an association we\u2019re looking at ways of marketing the place as an event-based precinct.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re positive and enthusiastic about working with the designer, the possibilities are endless.\u201d<\/p>\n
Council has planned to spend $14 million over two years on the project, with $4 million budgeted in 2020\/21.<\/p>\n
As a firm Hassell has undertaken projects across the country and the world including the Darling Harbour transformation in Sydney, the New Museum for Western Australia in Perth and the Resilient South City as part of the Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge in San Francisco, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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