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Sustainable Destination Partnership Sustainable Destination CELEBRATING OUR CITY’S HISTORIC BUILDINGS Lord Mayor Clover Moore at the Partnership celebration of the 120th Anniversary More than 25 local and international hotels, museums of the Queen Victoria Building and tourist icons, including the Sydney Opera The Queen Victoria Building (QVB) is an outstanding House, have signed up to the City’s new Sustainable example of Sydney’s Victorian heritage and a significant Destination Partnership – pledging to reduce their City asset. With its stunning architecture and thriving environmental impact and make Sydney a globally businesses operating today, it’s hard to believe that the building recognised, sustainable destination. And it is good to was threatened by demolition proposals more than once. see Tourism Accommodation Australia, our peak industry body, backing the program. Designed by Scottish-born City Architect George McRae, the QVB opened in July 1898 as a vast market building and arcade. Sydney is Australia’s largest accommodation market, At different times, the building has housed a music hall, the City with 20,000 hotel rooms, 5,500 serviced apartments of Sydney library and the Sydney County Council. and more than 7,000 backpacker hostel beds. With the Organisations that have joined the Sustainable Destination Partnership: industry continuing to expand and visitors contributing • International Convention Centre The QVB underwent two major refurbishments, in 1986 and 2008, that have • AccorHotels Mayors and representatives from all 33 councils in September 2018 $16.7 billion to the local economy, we have a real • The Langham Hotel ensured the building’s ongoing relevance as a vital part of our CBD. Mooremetropolitan Park Sydney at the launch of Resilient Sydney • Amora Hotel opportunity to achieve substantial environmental • Merlin Entertainments The QVB was heritage listed in 2010 in recognition of its Art Gallery of NSW outcomes through this initiative. • • Museum of Applied Arts architectural style and scale. Proudly owned by the City of • Australian Museum The program will identify ways for businesses to become and Sciences Sydney, the QVB was leased to Ipoh Gardens in 1983 for 99 years. greener through environmental ratings, increased use of • Australian National Maritime • Museum of Contemporary Art renewable energy, reduced water use and improved Museum • PARKROYAL Darling Harbour waste management and recycling. • City of Sydney • Schwartz Family Company All three of the buildings have vital roles in • Fox Studios Australia This partnership is inspired by the success of our • Shangri-la • Grace Hotel the life and future of our beautiful city. Better Buildings Partnership, which has seen major • The Star Entertainment Group A Sydney Making Sydney more resilient to future physical, • Hilton CAPITOL THEATRE: commercial property owners reduce their emissions • The State Library destination for 126 years Resilient Sydney ... social and economic challenges by 52 per cent across their combined $105 billion • Holiday Inn • Sydney Living Museums property portfolio since 2006. • Hyatt Regency Sydney Opera House Like the QVB, Haymarket’s Capitol Theatre was • We began working on this when Sydney A rapid increase in population and 4. managing disruptions to • IHG Intercontinental Sydney • Veriu also designed by City Architect George McRae. won a place in 100 Resilient Cities, densities has put pressure on schools, essential services Originally the ‘New’ Belmore Markets, it opened in • Youth Hostels Australia a global network pioneered by the education, open space, essential services 5. collaborating as one 1892 and operated as a marketplace until the Rockefeller Foundation. This network and other infrastructure. At the same time, metropolitan Sydney building was converted to a hippodrome for Wirth is guiding member cities from Toronto affordable housing and congestion are Bros Circus in 1916. We also want you to ‘Get Prepared’ with $8 million recycled stormwater scheme and San Francisco, to Huangshi and increasingly critical issues. Red Cross Australia. In 1928, it became a theatrically themed ‘picture Thessaloniki, to be more resilient to the in Green Square A special thank you to all city leaders palace’, where Sydneysiders could watch newsreels future physical, social and economic Sydneysiders are encouraged to download for working with us and sharing their and see Hollywood silent films. It was converted for challenges we could face. the ‘Get Prepared’ app, developed by knowledge and experiences to help the ‘talkies’ in 1933 but struggled as a cinema for Do you remember the hailstorm in April Red Cross and Insurance Australia the following decades. address these resilience challenges. Treatment 1999? It was the largest ever to affect Group. We all have a role to play – so GREEN SARE The process highlighted our best download the app and prepare your own LIBRARY As a venue for rock concerts and in spite of a two- NSW. We learned from this that we were year run of Jesus Christ Superstar, in the late 1970s not prepared. There were no warnings or qualities as Sydneysiders – generosity, emergency plan to share with family, the Sydney City Council - which owned the site predictions, and afterwards, despite the inventiveness, a willingness to pull friends and neighbours. - proposed to demolish the building for a new lyric hard work of Fire and Rescue NSW and the together, and a commitment to improving Water treatment plant in Green Square theatre. Then City Alderman Clover Moore opposed SES, large parts of Sydney were covered the lives of all our diverse communities. Distribution this decision, and with the powerful support of One of Australia’s largest urban stormwater recycling schemes has been switched on in Green Square’s townStorage centre by the by a sea of tarpaulins for months. It is these very qualities that we will entrepreneur Harry M. Miller and Professor Ross need most as we face the challenges of City of Sydney, working with water utility provider Flow Systems. Thorne of the University of Sydney, it was saved. Resilience is about being better prepared the future together. We established five Each year up to 320 million litres of for events like this by building response Lord Mayor of Sydney The recycled stormwater is able to be An interim conservation order from the NSW polluted stormwater will be diverted Precious drinking water will be saved and planning for when things go wrong. strategic directions to build metropolitan used in washing machines, to flush toilets Heritage Council was bestowed in 1979. @CloverMoore from waterways, treated and piped and water bills will be cut for residents Sydney’s resilience: and to water parks and gardens. To create Resilient Sydney, we @clovermooresydney directly into residential, commercial In the 1990s, under Lord Mayor Frank Sartor, the and businesses which is a win for our And Sydney Town Hall’s consulted with over 1,000 residents 1. making people-centred decisions and community buildings. community and the environment. Image courtesy of Capitol Theatre whole city block, including the Capitol Theatre, $40 million restoration and collaborated with more than 100 2. living with our climate, including underwent a wholesale restoration actions to cool our city Sydney Town Hall is the City of Sydney’s and modernisation, providing first- organisations and the other 32 councils OUR ADVISORS ARE: in metropolitan Sydney. 3. building social cohesion major civic building and the seat of City rate facilities. Today, it is one of and connectedness Councillor Jess Scully, co-chair of the Nightlife It is also an important cultural the city’s key, and few remaining, governance. & Creative Sector Advisory Panel centre, hosting events as diverse as civic large live entertainment venues. Kerri Glasscock, CEO & director of The Sydney Get involved in Sydney celebrations, public meetings, citizenship Fringe and Venue 505, co-chair of the Nightlife ceremonies and concerts. & Creative Sector Advisory Panel Rides Festival! It was built between 1869 and 1889 of ... and Cultural Sydney Justine Baker, CEO of Solotel Group Pyrmont yellow block sandstone and was Jacob Collier, founder of Bird and Border From a two-wheeled takeover of Sydney Park to listed on the NSW Heritage register in 2010. Emily Collins, Managing Director of Music NSW a night-time roll around Mrs Macquarie’s Chair, Emilya Colliver, founder of Art Pharmacy & there are more than 30 family-friendly events to Our refurbishment closed the building for Culture Scouts choose from this Sydney Rides Festival. two years, and as well as the heritage and Kat Dopper, director and founder of Heaps Gay external fabric restoration, included renewal With the weather warming up, it’s a great opportunity of plant, services, fire safety and energy John Ferris, DJ & Head of Licensing and Sync, to get outside, get active and discover just how easy efficiency improvements. More public spaces TMRW Music it is to travel through our city on a bike. were also created in lower Town Hall and the John Green, director of Australian Hotels In the last decade, bike trips through our city whole structure was given better resistance Association NSW Joshua Green, General Manager of Side Bar have more than doubled and our residents are Saturday to earthquakes. riding at twice the rate of greater Sydney. This Stephan Gyory, owner of The Record Store is an excellent start, but we need to encourage 6 October Joy Ng, owner of The Bearded Tit even more Sydneysiders to get on a bike! We have invited experienced They will provide vital insights into Greg Turton, General Manager of The World Bar If you require this information in an alternative format please contact: 13984/OCT18 until Saturday and dedicated experts from what businesses, artists and musicians More than 20,000 people participated in last year’s Phillip Wadds, Criminology Program Convenor City of Sydney: 02 9265 9333 [email protected] across Sydney’s diverse nightlife really need for our city culture and festival so don’t miss out this year.
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