A new multi-sport park will soon be up and running in Dandenong, thanks to over a half a million dollars in funding from the Victorian Government.<\/p>\n
Member for Dandenong and Minister for Youth, the Hon Minister Gabrielle Williams, MP, marked the start of construction of the multi-sport park at a sod turn with City of Greater Dandenong Mayor, Councillor Roz Blades, AM.<\/p>\n
The new community multi-sport park will feature a multi-sport court for a range of recreational activities, including basketball, netball and futsal. The new multi-sport park will also have enhanced safety features such as lighting and CCTV.<\/p>\n
Located at the corner of Cadle and George Street within the Revitalising Central Dandenong precinct, the new multi-sport court is being delivered by Development Victoria on its land, in collaboration with City of Greater Dandenong.<\/p>\n
Approximately $650,000 has been committed to fund the new community park, with the State Government funding over $550,000 and the City of Greater Dandenong contributing approximately $100,000.<\/p>\n
Development Victoria will deliver the multi-sport court as part of the Revitalising Central Dandenong initiative, in collaboration with the City of Greater Dandenong.<\/p>\n
The Revitalising Central Dandenong initiative is a $290 million project, initiated by the State Government in 2006, to transform central Dandenong. This long-term project is excepted to attract more than $1.2 billion in private sector investment, while creating 5,000 jobs and enhancing Dandenong\u2019s appeal as a great place to live, work and visit.<\/p>\n
The new multi-sport park is expected to be completed by mid-2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A new multi-sport park will soon be up and running in Dandenong, thanks to over a half a million dollars in funding from the Victorian Government. Member for Dandenong and Minister for Youth, the Hon Minister Gabrielle Williams, MP, marked the start of construction of the multi-sport park at a sod turn with City of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9369,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8475\/revisions\/9369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}