Community and Housing

• G Line turns the rail corridor from something that divides the area into something that brings it together. It creates new parks, community spaces, safer walking and cycling connections, local shops and places to meet.
  
  It is designed to improve everyday life for surrounding communities, not simply move crowds on major event days, while ensuring the benefits of the project extend well beyond the sporting precinct.

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  Apartments gather around a shared courtyard, with greenery and views down to the retail and station below.

  Apartments gather around a shared courtyard, with greenery and views down to the retail and station below.

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  A community crafted around people
  G Line offers a vibrant, active urban environment focused on connection, with distinctive housing options, shared spaces, and local amenities that appeal to residents and visitors alike.
  
  Human scale comes before height. 2,000 new homes are embedded within our six neighbourhoods, spanning apartments, build-to-rent, affordable housing, retirement living and student accommodation.
  
  Cost, distance, ability, and background don’t determine who gets to call G Line home. Affordable housing sits on the same streets as everything else.
  
  Homes, services and communal spaces are planned as one system — connecting community and the daily rhythms of life to nature and place throughout.

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  Residential uses across the master plan, including build-to-rent, affordable housing, retirement living and student accommodation.

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  Residential uses across the master plan, including build-to-rent, affordable housing, retirement living and student accommodation.

• Private residences

  165600m²

  Affordable housing

  12900m²

  Hotel and serviced apartments

  48100m²

  Build-to-rent (BTR) properties

  21400m²

  Retirement living

  9800m²

  Student accommodation

  1800m²

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  Community living
  G Line provides a canvas for a diversity of experiences and destinations for the community, through educational, recreational, and artistic spaces that engage all ages. Play areas blend learning and creativity, while passive and active zones support wellbeing.
  
  – Human scaled spaces
  – Design for people and all ages and abilities
  – Vertical communities
  – Design places where people walk, shop, play, relax, sit and talk, not just as thoroughfares
  – Biophilic design connecting nature, health and wellbeing
  – Community activities
  – Intergenerational living
  – Health and wellbeing commons
  – Shared rooftop gardens
  – Passive and ecological parks
  – Active recreation
  – Arts program
  – Play
  – Gathering places.

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  The project provides a canvas for a diversity of experiences for the community.

  The project provides a canvas for a diversity of experiences for the community.

• New dedicated public parks

  8

  Car parks including park and ride

  1400

  Productive gardens for community use

  2ha

• Everyday necessities are on your doorstep, with health services, education, markets and activity spaces accessible throughout G Line.

  2,000 new homes

  2,000 homes across the six neighbourhoods, from apartments to affordable housing, student accommodation, and retirement living.

  Intergenerational living

  Homes designed for young families, down-sizers and everyone in between to live side by side: shared spaces that bring generations together.

  Community commons

  Shared rooftop gardens, communal kitchens and resident-led design. 100% electric and designed for connection over convenience.

  Health and wellbeing commons

  GPs, allied health and mental health services are all under one roof and steps from the station: everyday care built into daily life. Plus a gym and wellness services that provide quiet care alongside quiet living.

  Early learning centres

  Childcare, maternal child health, and early learning are built into the heart of the neighbourhood, supporting young families and making everyday life easier for the community.

  Vertical education

  A vertical education precinct, with schools, university, and student accommodation.

  Local traders farmers market

  Creating a vibrant market that connects local producers, residents and visitors through fresh, seasonal food. Everyday amenity delivered by local businesses and independent retailers.

  Community activity spaces

  New community activity spaces, youth activation spaces and tennis courts sit across the precinct. Seasonal changes enrich the landscape, creating dynamic environments that evolve over time and invite exploration and connection year-round.

• At its heart, this project is about community. By transforming an underutilised site in the centre of Melbourne, we can bring together sport, culture, creativity, biodiversity and community in one connected place. It’s a project for everyone, and a powerful example of what can be achieved when we focus less on why not and more on why.

  I’m not a big sports person, but I love exploring Melbourne by bike and on foot. One of my favourite parts of G Line is that it creates this amazing new link all the way from the Yarra River trails to Richmond and Cremorne, completely separated from dangerous or unpleasant roads. And I love the idea that it’s not just a path, but a beautiful vibrant neighbourhood in the heart of Melbourne’s parklands that I can explore any time of the day.

• Common questions

  What community amenities are provided?

  G Line is not just a vision, it is a deeply considered, rigorously tested urban renewal opportunity that supports an experience where everything is within reach. Through public spaces, laneways, and a mix of uses that span daily services, food and beverage, retail, commercial, employment, education, health and wellness, arts and culture all connecting back to the world-class sports and entertainment precinct it sits within – G Line is an opportunity to create a whole new suburb and 6 neighbourhoods that exemplify everything Melbourne has to offer.

  What’s the balance between private and public space?

  How people move through, explore, live and work here is the underlying driver of the precinct’s planning and design approach.

  With 8 public parks, a plaza connecting the MCG and Melbourne Park, an upgraded Richmond Station and transport interchange, all connected by a 1.8km pedestrian and cycling corridor through the precinct, G Line is a people-first project, with the human experience at its heart.

  G Line isn’t just a horizontal connection between Richmond and the City, but a vertical one, integrating public and active transport and opportunities for people to live, work and explore at every level.

  How are people encouraged to gather and connect?

  In a world of increasing isolation and inequity, what makes our sporting precinct so special is how it brings people together. The opportunity for shared human experience is the thread that stitches G Line together. From the open greenery of Jolimont Fields, to the energy of Olympic Plaza, the elevated lushness of Yarra Residences, the buzzing transport and employment hub of Richmond Circus, through to everyday activity in The Village and Cremorne Commons – spaces for people are embedded not just as a design, but a core principle.

  How are barriers to inclusion removed?

  Inclusion isn’t an afterthought, it’s a core consideration that’s embedded in the design thinking of the 6 neighbourhoods and everything that connects them.

  As far as possible at this early stage, we’ve endeavoured to design this with the human experience in mind. How people get around and access the things that make life not only possible but enjoyable no matter their life stage or needs.

  Understanding what’s not possible now, but what could be, and how we could enable that to happen through considered planning and design.

  While G Line is a masterplan, it will continue to evolve to meet the needs of the people who will live, work and visit. In the spirit of the collaborative process through which G Line has emerged, we are committed to continuing to engage with people from all walks of life, experiences, and perspectives.

  How will this feel like it belongs to all Melburnians?

  G Line is an homage to our sporting ‘cathedral’. A place that brings us together to celebrate the best and the greatest. The birthplace of iconic moments that stay with us for a lifetime – connecting us across generations, language, culture and team loyalty. It is a testament to the power of human connection and the values that unite us.

  But unless you have a reason to be there, or already live nearby, the opportunity to engage with Melbourne’s premier sporting destination is severely limited. The human experience of getting to, from, and around the precinct is hindered by decades of poor precinct-scale planning, and chronic under-investment.

  This project is not about looking back at where we went wrong, this is about coming together as Melburnians to boldly embrace what’s possible if we back our own creative potential and technical nous.

  As fiercely passionate citizens and professionals with the willingness to lend our collective skills to the challenge, we see this as an opportunity to catalyse change, and provide this world-class venue what it deserves – a precinct that truly is for everyone.