About: A $3.5 million Victorian Government investment will enhance Glenrowan's heritage.
Funding: Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions - Crisis Committee of Cabinet - Infrastructure Stimulus Fund
The project includes a contemporary, architecturally designed viewing platform, and visitor information and amenities centre on a site that looks over key locations of Glenrowan's history and provides interpretation of the Kelly Gang siege.
Project includes:
- A viewing tower
- Siege site experience enhanced with virtual and augmented realities
- Landscaping works around Lions Park
Further information and community consultation will occur throughout 2022..
Latest update:
16 September 2022
Works have commenced on the much-anticipated Glenrowan Heritage Precinct with the ground floor concrete slab, underground services, first stage of structural steel and internal concrete blockwork completed. Recently the steel structural frame was installed along with the concrete poured on level 1.
Over the coming weeks, Midson will complete the forming and pouring of the concrete stair to level 1, painting of the steel structural frame and the installation of the web-mesh around level 1.
The construction program is set to be completed in January 2023, with full fit out completed by March 2023.
Lions Park - The playground area will be closed shortly to the public to allow for the completion of the landscaping works, this work has been brought forward within the project and is set to be completed within the 4th term of school to allow plant establishment. The park will be completely fenced off whilst works take place and then be opened back up to the public when completed.