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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 11 2015
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An artist's impression from the corner of Knuckey and Smith streets of how the old Woolworths building will look after the proposed revamp
Woolies makeover to
fix sore site for eyes
By DANI McDONALD
THE old run-down building
on the corner of Knuckey and
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reinvigorated if its planning
application is approved.
The owner, Gwelo Developments, has made an application to the Development
Consent Authority to breathe
new life into the eyesore, commonly known as the Woolies
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It’s a Band-Aid project
while the developers design
something more substantial,
the application states.
The building traded as a
Woolworths from 1969 until it
was sold in 2006.
Gwelo Developments paid
$21 million to property developer Kerry Manolis.
Over the past nine years,
the building has sat in the mid-
dle of Darwin’s CBD with its
windows boarded up, attracting graffiti and providing
shelter to the homeless.
The application seeks to install new glass shopfronts, add
a fresh coat of paint, and
spruce up the awnings to
attract shops and restaurants.
The application states that
the refurbished building will
restore “active streetscape”
and provide a “safe, vibrant
amenity to a building which
has been vacant and disused
for many years”.
The Austin Lane entrance is
proposed to invigorate the side
street, while maintaining its famous graffiti wall.
The application does not
propose to provide any car
parking, despite regulations
requiring 91 parking spaces to
be installed.
“Should the proposal be
rejected on this basis, the refurbishment of the iconic ‘Wool-
ies Site’ will not proceed and
stay vacant indefinitely,” the
application warns.
Darwin Lord Mayor Katrina Fong Lim said she was looking forward to seeing the
building being used.
“Anything that activates
that space and provides usefulness to the space is a good
thing,” she said.
The public are invited to
make submissions up until
February 20.
Frolicking crocs seen playing ball, blowing bubbles
By MEGAN PALIN
CROCODILES aren’t just killing machines: they also like to
play ball, according to a new
report.
A research report, Play Behaviour
in
Crocodilians,
recently released by Animal
Behaviour Cognition, reveals
crocodiles like to play games
with balls, vegetation and
other salties.
Researcher Vladimir Dinets
reported that “play behaviour
in crocodilians (was) not uncommon”.
“But (it) is under-reported
due to the difficulties of
observing it and interpreting
the observations,” he said.
Mr Dinets said crocodiles
had been known to interact
with various floating objects,
“often provisioned toys or commercial enrichment items”.
“Adult crocodilians of many
species can often be seen pushing twigs, grass and other floating vegetation,” he said.
Mr Dinets said another
researcher observed a male
Cuban crocodile “attacking
and pushing around a large
ball and approaching it while
blowing bubbles”.
“(That particular researcher
told me it) might look like
feeding response, but the
crocodile has been playing
with that particular ball for
years,” he said.
Mr Dinets said “object play”
was the “most frequently
observed type of crocodilian
play”.
However,
Darwin-based
leading international crocodile
expert Grahame Webb said he
had “never seen anything to
classify as croc play behaviour”.
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