The Vision

  • G Line is a bold, privately funded plan to transform the rail corridor from Richmond Station to the MCG and Melbourne Park into a new, connected part of our city. It combines housing, commercial activity, hospitality, entertainment and public realm alongside the city’s premier stadiums and arenas. It resolves transport conflicts, creates public space, jobs, year-round economic activity, and community connection, while delivering a safer, seamless arrival on event days. It’s the missing piece that can reinforce Melbourne’s position as the world’s sporting capital.

  • Grand Finals won and lost. Test matches that spilled into a fifth day. Australian Open nights that ran into the early hours. This stretch of Melbourne packs a lot of the city’s history into one of its narrowest sites, about as wide as the city block between Bourke Street and Little Collins Street.

    On event days, a hundred thousand people converge here at once, while seven modes of transport compete for the same fragmented space. The rest of the time, the precinct sits largely empty.

    For a location this meaningful, the gap between what it is and what it could be is significant. This is the starting point for everything G Line sets out to resolve.

  • For all its history, the precinct is hard to move through.

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    For all its history, the precinct is hard to move through.

  • G Line started with a simple question: what if a plan for Melbourne started with the people who live here, not buildings?

    Our answer is a fully integrated masterplan that spans 1.8 kilometres and six new neighbourhoods, with the MCG at its heart.

    G Line prioritises creating meaningful connections between people, nature and place. This guides how G Line looks and functions, and underpins every neighbourhood, space and building proposed.

    This stretch of the city has shaped Melbourne for over a century. Our vision is for that to continue, for generations to come.

  • Current state – The corridor today, with rail yards dividing the MCG from Melbourne Park.

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    Current state – The corridor today, with rail yards dividing the MCG from Melbourne Park.

  • Site area

    12.6ha

    Site length

    1.8km

    New homes

    2000

    Neighbourhoods

    6

    New public parks

    8

    Car-free walking and cycling route

    1.8km

  • Our project principles are a working lens, applied consistently across every discipline and every stage of the project, from the first masterplan sketch through to what gets built on site.

    More of Melbourne

    Melbourne is already one of the world’s great cities. G Line seeks to extend what the city already is, and to make more of it available to more people.

    Connective Corridor

    The train yards that have long divided this part of Melbourne are resolved by a single continuous act of urban repair.

    Everything within reach

    Access, comfort, and safety have been core to removing the barriers between people and making full use of G Line — because this is built for everyone.

    Give more than you take

    A rail corridor becomes layered with parks, streets, and public space, laid over and around it. Across energy, water, culture, and public life, G Line creates more than it uses.

    Made for every day and every occassion

    The venues host 100,000 people on event day. G Line gives people reasons to stay longer and come back too — a Tuesday morning coffee, the Friday night blockbuster, or a weekend festival.

  • Explore G Line on our interactive map

  • Under the MCG's evening lights, Jolimont Fields fills with footy jumpers, evening sport and life on the Front Lawn.

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    Under the MCG's evening lights, Jolimont Fields fills with footy jumpers, evening sport and life on the Front Lawn.

  • We’re not having an academic conversation about what might be possible. G Line is underpinned by a proprietary solution to one of Melbourne’s most complex pieces of infrastructure: Richmond Station and its surrounding rail yards. With that foundation, we set out to create a community. A place where people can live, work, learn, watch and play sport, hear music, find inspiration, eat, laugh, stay, relax, explore and commute. We were fundamentally passionate about shaping a collection of neighbourhoods, each with its own identity, character, look and feel. Together, they create a new part of Melbourne that people can experience and make their own.

    Zane Haupt, G Line Founder & Project Director

    City building can be approached through both a technical and organic lens at the same time and it is possible to be successful in achieving multiple ambitious objectives at once. Importantly, looking at the human characteristics of a future precinct can ensure that a place will thrive and endure.

    Luke Chamberlain Director, Tract

    It was George Bernard Shaw who first uttered these words: some people see things as they are and say why, others dream of how things could be and say why not.

    This inspiration has driven a group of proud and world class talented citizens of our great city to bring their skill sets and underlying passion together collaboratively to solve one of the enduring problems within our world renowned sporting precinct.

    Ian Robson Advisory & Stakeholder Management, Robson Haupt Advisory

    If Melbourne’s CBD is the head, then this is its lungs. Melbourne has always come together in its streets and laneways, its cafes and bars, its parks and gardens. But it has never had a single place built to breathe life back into the city like this. Somewhere to meander, to gather, and to celebrate.

    Tim Dow Strategic Consultant, Tim Rob Don Dow

    G Line will be a built example of the policy required to transform every city around the world to become self-sufficient. It’s designed to give back to nature and future generations in a profitable manner.

    Ross Harding Finding Infinity

    Great sports precincts should serve their cities every day, not just on game day. The rail corridor offers a once in a generation opportunity to connect one of the world’s great sporting destinations with housing, transport, education, gardens, arts, and culture. G Line reimagines this part of Melbourne as a vibrant, connected place that delivers more value, more activity, and more opportunities for more of Melbourne.

    Jordan Kuiti Principal Landscape Architect, Tract

    The master plan location, along the rail corridor, is a missing slice of Melbourne. Surrounding it on either side are the things we all love about our city – parks and gardens, the river, our arts and sporting cultural icons, the diverse and enticing entertainment and hospitality precincts and everything is within walking distance. Our master plan is an opportunity to finally splice it all together.

    Matt Drysdale Strategic Designer, The Office For Collective Design

  • G Line has been shaped through a dynamic partnership. Our team brings together industry leaders, experts, consultants, and disruptors across planning, design and strategy, each with decades of industry experience. Time and expertise have been given freely, through a shared vision and passion for a better, more connected Melbourne.

  • G Line Founder & Project Director Zane Haupt

    G Line Founder & Project Director Zane Haupt

    As founder and project director of G Line, Zane saw the potential to transform the rail corridor around Richmond Station into a connected new part of Melbourne, alongside the MCG and the city’s sporting precinct.

    Zane Haupt works at the intersection of property, infrastructure, capital and global sport. He has become known for recognising opportunities others overlook. Seeing a new way through when others see roadblocks is central to his conviction to unlock value in complex places.

    With the G Line proposal, Zane pursued that vision despite considerable technical complexity, by bringing together global expertise to address the significant infrastructure challenges at its core. That foundation gave a highly credentialled and passionate Melbourne project team the opportunity to shape a place that can serve the city every day.

    Zane feels a deep obligation to the place G Line could become. He wants it to welcome people of all backgrounds and abilities, with life and purpose well beyond major events. He understands how much this part of Melbourne means to the people who gather here, and the deeper significance it holds for the Wurundjeri people as Traditional Owners.

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  • Planning & Landscape Vision Tract

    Planning & Landscape Vision Tract

    Tract is a national planning and design practice specialising in town planning, urban design, landscape architecture and associated digital media. Their knowledge of policy and process is rooted in decades of experience, creatively shaping places for civic interaction, conduits for movement, places to live, work and visit, and habitats to grow.

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  • Master Plan The Office for Collective Design (The OCD)

    Master Plan The Office for Collective Design (The OCD)

    The Office for Collective Design (The OCD) specialises in providing strategic guidance, master plans, sports planning, urban design and public realm and conceptual designs. Matt Drysdale, founder of The OCD, holds a broad expertise covering the fields of project management, urban design and strategic planning, master planning, the built environment, public art and architecture as well as involvement on numerous strategic projects both in Australia and internationally.

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  • Environmental Vision Finding Infinity

    Environmental Vision Finding Infinity

    Finding Infinity is a creative and technical environmental consultancy; providing unique and bespoke advice to assist clients in minimising their environmental impact and operational expenses simultaneously. Working on small scale and large scale projects, locally and internationally, we focus on ambitious targets and find pragmatic and creative methods of achieving them.

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  • Experience Strategy Tim Rob Don Dow

    Experience Strategy Tim Rob Don Dow

    Tim Dow is a Melbourne-based strategic consultant who has developed a rigorous process for producing innovative experience and wayfinding strategies. Tim has applied his unique process to a wide range of large-scale public projects. He is responsible for developing strategies that inform design solutions to deepen connection, invite lingering and build belonging for every person, on every day.

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  • Traffic and Transport Engineering Traffix Group

    Traffic and Transport Engineering Traffix Group

    With a long-established reputation for excellence in the industry, Traffix Group has provided the full range of services to the private sector and Local and State Governments for over 35 years. Privately owned and operated, they provide practical and effective solutions to complex traffic engineering and transport planning problems.

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  • Engineering GHD

    Engineering GHD

    GHD is a global, multidisciplinary professional services network providing clients with integrated solutions across advisory, digital, engineering, architecture, environmental and construction. Their future-focused, innovative approaches connect and support communities around the world, building resiliency and sustainability for generations to come.

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  • Architectural Vision Bruce Henderson Architects

    Architectural Vision Bruce Henderson Architects

    Bruce Henderson Architects was established in 1976 as a specialist commercial architecture practice. Today, with offices in Melbourne, London and Hanoi, BHA has grown to become a highly diversified design company responsible for impressive projects around the world. Founder Bruce Henderson, still at the helm, remains as passionate today for the business he began more than 40 years ago.

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  • Legal White & Case

    Legal White & Case

    White & Case is a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, our cross-border integration and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many.

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