CONSTRUCTION on a new boardwalk at Inner Harbour in Patterson Lakes is set to take place soon.
The Harbour Plaza area at Patterson Lakes was ravaged by a fire in 2022 (“Fire tears through Patterson Lakes businesses, The News, 15/2/2022). Kingston Council has budgeted $1.4 million for boardwalk works in the vicinity, and is expected to go to tender later this year. Council has confirmed that it hopes to have completed construction by the end of the 2024/2025 financial year.
Kingston councillor Cameron Howe says the project will help businesses recover after the 2022 blaze. “The Harbour Plaza fire at Patterson Lakes two years ago left an $8 million plus trail of destruction, erasing the restaurant scene and devastating many ventures that are now slowly rebuilding. The new boardwalk built this year at the plaza waterfront of Inner Harbour will further incentivise new tenancies, while addressing safe accessibility for pedestrians and maritime visitors to or from Patterson Lakes,” Howe said.
“Reinvigoration of Inner Harbour has been more than a decade in the making when faced with bureaucracy, and the overdue boardwalk is being celebrated by residents that want to see the plaza reach its potential, as a true waterfront destination with a thriving restaurant scene accessible by boat or foot.”
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 17th April 2024