St Kilda is a place constantly in transition. While cash is flowing into the bayside suburb, it’s also an area that locals will fight doggedly to protect.
Brian Nankervis is standing surveying the view from The Espy, out across the moody horizon of the bay, listing off the things he loves about St Kilda.
However, it’s also a place where locals fight doggedly to protect its spirit, evident in the ongoing dispute over what should happen to the “triangle site”, which is next to the Palais and currently languishing as a car park dubbed “ “Last year, there were 25 robberies and 270 non-family violence assaults in St Kilda – a suburb that was visited by more than 4 million people,” he says. “As a result, the chances of being robbed in St Kilda were one in 160,000, while the chances of being randomly assaulted were one in almost 15,000.”
“There’s always been perception that St Kilda is worse now than it was before,” he says. “It’s often about perceptions of danger and people often say that it’s about drug use, and it’s about street sex work, and it’s about homelessness. But when you actually look at what goes on on the street, a lot of it is people from out of town, from other parts of Melbourne coming into St Kilda to party on Friday nights and Saturday nights.
He’s also seen a change in the street sex industry, with the sex workers who used to stand along Grey Street mainly gone. “I just looked at the map and I thought I wanted to be close to the beach,” he says. “There was a moment when Fitzroy Street was a little bit more down with shops closed and not a lot of people around. Now there is a lot of new bars opening. It’s nice to see people around. It’s been cleaned up a little bit.”
She points to Irish pub Fifth Province, which is expanding and will offer an Irish whiskey bar in the former Pizza Birra site at the Metropol where the light rail stops.Cunsolo defends the vacant shops along Acland Street and Fitzroy Street as part of a broader issue for high streets across the country due to major changes in the retail landscape with the shift to online shopping and high rental costs.
Cunsolo and the Port Phillip council are keen to push ahead with the plans as part of a broader strategy to make St Kilda Victoria’s first live music precinct.
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