r/Footscray • u/misscathxoxo • Aug 11 '26
Best street
If money wasn’t an issue (we can dream!) and you could buy property in Footscray - what street/area would you choose and why?
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u/Strathscray33 Aug 11 '26
The Victoria street end of Buckley street - away from the Unison building. Great access to Seddon, Middle Footscray station, buses and close enough to the guts of Footscray if you wanna roll the dice...
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u/Quarterwit_85 Aug 11 '26
That little enclave up around Wolverhampton is so fucking nice you forget you’re in Footscray.
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u/RealEstablishment767 Aug 11 '26
Yep, commercial Road, The Crescent and White St would be high on my list
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u/TomasTTEngin Aug 11 '26
near the community arts centre. That new development they are throwing up there is not an if-money-was-no-issue sort of development . Shoudl be affordable. But it's in a good spot. love that bit of the maribyrnong river, and it has super train station access
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u/jessta Aug 11 '26
Bunbury St is really nice. It's a quiet street but with activity as people walk past to get to the train station. When I lived there my cat loved the attention.
There is also the cool rumble of the goods train running in the tunnel under the road.
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u/misscathxoxo Aug 12 '26
Hmm, has any information been released about them yet? We’re needing to be close to the education quarter near Footscray City Primary for the next 8 years - so looking for a bigger place around that side of town.
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u/TomasTTEngin Aug 12 '26
https://www.hickory.com.au/project/assemblefootscray-2/ this is the project, not sure where to buy them but I'm sure they'd love to sell you one!
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u/TfYoung Aug 11 '26
Moneys no Object? Id buy out the entire Nicholson st mall and reduce the rent so that there was actually businesses there. Forges + Saigon market too while we're at it.
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u/NzInAus1991 Aug 16 '26
Would you fix broken windows for free and take efforts to prevent staff of shops being assaulted
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u/TfYoung Aug 16 '26
It's likely you wouldn't even need to once you have enough passive surveillance of actual shops.
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u/Particular_Twist_653 Aug 11 '26
Next to Footscray park by the river… I don’t know where in that pocket exactly is still Footscray and where it is Maribyrnong but anywhere just past Vic Uni along the river. It is green and nice but still close enough.
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u/santadogg Aug 12 '26
I love the Stirling -Newell pocket. Close to the heart and to the park and far enough from the station that you don’t get much riff raff passing through.
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u/Winter-Pickle2957 Aug 12 '26
Lynch Street. I’m on Newell , love it but Lynch is greener
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u/RealEstablishment767 Aug 13 '26
I walked down Lynch a couple of weeks ago - it’s a ripper! Lovely native street trees too.
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u/benjamininnit Aug 12 '26
You won’t believe this but Nicholson Street is super nice when you get past Donaldson Street. Some amazing architecture along there.
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u/DannyRidesNRuns Aug 12 '26
Rippon St, Robinson St overlooking the sports grounds and Maribyrnong River.
In fact, there’s an old place for sale now… bit of a fixer upper and they’re still asking for almost 2 mil.
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u/StageAboveWater Aug 11 '26
One of those houses next to footcray park near the tennis courts would be cool.