Bays Precinct International Summit next week

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Sydney is hosting the Bays Precinct International Summit next week. Unfortunately, only invited guests can attend, no members of the public. A Community Stakeholder Event will be held in February 2015, and you can register to receive updates on this link.

I hope they put ease of access, walking and cycling at the centre of design, not just making as much money as possible from developers.

This is part of their announcement:

The Bays Precinct Urban Renewal Program will be the largest urban renewal program 
in Sydney since the 2000 Olympics. It provides an opportunity to deliver significant 
transformation of Sydney’s inner harbour by creating new housing and recreation, 
tourism and retail places.

It has the potential to be a game-changer for the city of Sydney, and to set a new 
benchmark for what is possible in the regeneration of iconic urban destinations.

A transformational project of this scale and complexity must be conceived, designed 
and built by tapping into the greatest minds in the field of city building and urban 
renewal, and learning from the most outstanding examples of regeneration of other 
great cities and locations around the world. 

The deliberations of the two-day international summit will inform The Bays Precinct
Urban Renewal Program.

The international summit has been timed to coincide with the G20 Summit in Brisbane 
and is an opportunity to showcase, to the world, the potential of The Bays Precinct. 

I have placed a red cross where Harbour Mill is on this map of the Bays Precinct area in the newspaper article below, so we can see it will have a profound impact on us, hopefully for the better. If this really does become an 'iconic urban destination' and 'a new benchmark for urban transformation', then how good will it be living next to it. At the moment, most of Blackwattle Bay is a mess.

I have already seen other developments in the area, such as the nearby Pier99 apartments, promote the development of the Precinct as a major selling point.