Brunswick Street Mall is a
pedestrian mall
Pedestrian zones (also known as auto-free zones and car-free zones, as pedestrian precincts in British English, and as pedestrian malls in the United States and Australia) are areas of a city or town reserved for pedestrian-only use and in whi ...
in
Fortitude Valley
Fortitude Valley (often called "The Valley" by local residents) is an inner suburb of the City of Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia. In the , Fortitude Valley had a population of 9,708 people. The suburb features two pedestr ...
,
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South ...
,
Australia. The Mall occupies all of
Brunswick Street between Wickham Street and
Ann Street.
History
Brunswick Street Mall was constructed in 1991, and renovated in 1995.
Brisbane City Council began a redevelopment of the Mall in January, 2014.
The project is being built by
JMac Constructions (a subsidiary of
BMD Group
BMD Group is an Australian construction company based in Brisbane, Queensland. In 2016 it was listed at 44 in ''The Australian Financial Review's'' "Top 500 Private Companies", with an estimated annual revenue of 895 million.
The group was found ...
) at a cost of $4,000,000, and is expected to take six months.
The redevelopment was originally due to take place in 2016, but was pushed forward to make it ready for the
G-20 Summit.
See also
*
Brunswick Street
References
External links
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Pedestrian malls in Australia
Fortitude Valley, Queensland
1991 establishments in Australia