You can stroll through a park en route to the G.
There's that one (Fitzroy), Carlton, and Flagstaff gardens all littered on the border of the CBD. They're good for lunch breaks and the last two are littered with office workers at 1pm. They're well patronised by backpackers and young punks with paper bagged beers in the arvs too. So I don't think it's really badly needed.
The biggest thing is that no way will multi-million dollar land be chucked away for a park. No way. Everyone is just going to point towards Flagstaff Gardens.
This whole 'unlocking' Docklands thing is mostly shit. People find the walk down to Southern Cross inane enough. We don't have a city massive enough to constitute anything but residences down there anyway... you can't have thriving shops and entertainment districts all over the place. I just don't think Docklands'll be massive until the population bumps up another 500,000. You're just not going to make it substantially more attractive by knocking down the stadium – and only marginally more attractive than that with a nice green space.
Plus Etihad won't be demolished. Just won't.
yeh
nah, where is WHELAN the WRECKER ?