Until recently, Melbourne's Docklands were characterised as grubby, dangerous territory to the west of Robert Hoddle's civilised nineteenth-century city grid. Scruffy, industrial and weathered this was Melbourne's badlands: off the grid, off the radar and neglected even by industry as modernised shipping methods pushed dock action further south. Similar to the redevelopment of other docklands such as Canary Wharf, the rich pickings of a brownfield site adjacent to the CBD didn't lie fallow for long. In the early 2000s, several large-scale infrastructure works including the extension of Collins Street and Bourke Street began to reach into what were the bowels of the docks and provoke numerous commercial and residential projects and several notable new public facilities, the Telstra Dome stadium - hallowed ground for footy fans - among them.
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