WOW! So much progress still. So much more to take in. Great angles and views. If my Nana could see Parra now ... well, I don't think that she'd believe it. Great post BIG JAYDOG. DM.
Parramatta has gone from a place that few people would want to visit just ten years ago to a visually exciting city center that will draw visitors by the millions. What a fabulous transformation.
Great video! I used to be here for a short term training course in 2019. Everything has drammatically changed. There are so many constructions but still keep peaceful with green.
What is that round circle going up on the south side of the railway line? Did they take the land from the golf course? I am wondering what they will do to the cemetery eventually? It should be repaired & done up & used as a park. It is really sad to see the city I grew up visiting as my main shopping precinct & my dentist was there but long gone for a high tower. Can't say that I really like the end result of the town, no imagination at all!! Just a place of high towers & little sunlight to reach the streets in the end. 20 years from now it will be just another dirty city with no soul or character!!
It’s the new swimming pool. When they rebuilt the stadium , the stadium took over the space occupied by the swimming pool so it had to be rebuilt somewhere else. So pecking order is Football, Swimming, Golf. Parramatta hasn’t been clean in my memory. It could be allowed to rot like say Liverpool or Penrith where the only life left is inside the giant shopping malls I suppose but building both new residential and work towers are one way of bringing life back into the city.
My recent post - "What the government wants the government gets." No argument there, but the people should have some say in what happens to their home city. Try and locate one person who favoured the destruction of our amphitheatre and you will fail. Same with the Royal Oak Hotel. It wasn't needed for the tram line, it was destroyed just for the hell of it. Go check the abandoned concrete slab. And no Parramatta resident that I'm aware of favoured the destruction of Willow Grove. Thousands of people opposed the destruction of our 'heritage listed' war memorial swimming pool. To hell with them. How many people do you know who thought it would be a good idea to rip up the railway line to Carlingford station and - at a cost of several million dollars - replace it with a tram line to the bottom of the hill? Chances are you don't know anyone. As for the Roxy, it will be demolished and replaced with high rise office blocks. But only after the ruling oligarchs agree to it. Parramatta residents will end up with the concrete wasteland that politicians and councillors lust after. We will have no say in the matter. If that's the sort of world you want to live in, good luck, you may live to regret it.
Some people might applaud what's going on but as a long-term resident of Parramatta, I am saddened. Everything of warmth and charm has been, or is being, wrecked. Why did the council destroy our Town Hall amphitheatre? Seven days a week it was occupied by musicians, bands, poets and religious nutjobs. Never a dull moment. Next it will be the Roxy Theatre. Smash it down. Lots of money to be earned there. Why not grant a licence and turn it into a world standard community centre? Presently we don't have one. Harry Todd Bugle Hut? You gotta be joking. I'm a dancer. No dancing at Parramatta Leagues nowadays. It's just a gambling den. No Dancing at Parramatta RSL Oops sorry, Club Parramatta. Nowadays Wenties Leagues is the closest dance venue. Blue Books Cafe closed down. Not the council's fault this time but someone should have saved it. It was THE most wonderful facility in Paramatta. All gone. Heritage listed swimming pool - gone. Heritage listed Willow Grove - gone. Heritage listed Royal Oak pub - gone. It's just a vacant wasteland now. Sunday Market? Go to Blacktown. Nothing happening in Parramatta. Riverside Theatre - not bad. Shame about the ugly plot of blandness in the middle. It should be an oasis of joy rather than a plastic chair dumping ground. Parramatta desperately needs councilors with a hint of imagination. People who care about the city. Someone like me.
I agree with you big time It used to have character and soul now replaced with units with dead pot plants and there undies flapping on there balcony’s it’s excurating
@@johnlatham7092 It suits the younger generations because they have no interest in the warmth and excitement of older cities. Why bother visiting a venue where you can meet friends, browse through hundreds of vinyl albums. check thousands of old books, enjoy a conversation with dozens of interesting people around an old oak table when you can sit at home twiddling your little twiddle box while swiping left and right? The new Parramatta is designed for the new-age dead.
@@RockinAtheist My dear friend I hear what you are saying. I too have a close connection to the old Parramatta having attended Marist Brothers Parramatta from 1962 onwards. I remember as a 10 year old climbing through the convict-built tunnels inside the Lennox bridge which ran all the way up to Victoria Rd. I remember dining at the Copper Canyon Restaurant and the Bar Roma Restaurant, and (OMG) the Black Stump ! They're gone but live on in our memories. I remember well the Royal Oak pub (my drinking pub during my uni years was the Woolpack). There are things I hate about the architecture in Parramatta. The worst is the "new" Catholic Cathedral on Victoria Rd. However, I'm sure the Roxy will survive. I agree what you say about the Leagues Club and the RSL which are just places where families are broken by pokies. However, Parramatta is a major city growing from a population of 287K today to 500K in 2040. It is a financial and eductaional powerhouse. It needs to change and grow to remain not only Australia's first city but also one of its finest. Unfortunately this comes at a cost of losing buildings and places that hold memories that cannot be erased. Take care mate.
How so? China was home for 10 years, and I live in Parramatta now. Doesn’t remind me of China at all really. Usually the big compounds would have 10 plus similar towers, and have a massive park/garden in the middle. We don’t have that here. The skyscrapers are also more dense, especially inside Puxi part of Shanghai where I mostly lived. Even new built up areas in Pudong would have that. More “dead” part of Shanghai like Songjiang, Anting, Jiading or outside Shanghai in Suzhou, Nanjing, Ningbo, also would usually have this characteristic. So the general vibe just isn’t there. Also it’s very small and surrounded by very green suburban area, so it has very little China nostalgia for me living here 😂😂 Also the high rises here are a lot more full than in mainland China. Even the half finished 180 on George has people living in it and the other high rises are full of people. In Shanghai the high rises seemed a lot more empty. Even more so outside. Parramatta has changed a lot since I left in 2007. It’s unrecognisable, but it doesn’t remind me of China at all. If I would have to compare with a city outside that this reminds me of, I would say maybe Warsaw, as it’s also pretty suburban after you leave the centre that has a handful of skyscrapers like here. Warsaw city has a little more going on though.
@@sloppynyuszi Same I've been living in Parramatta since '06 and it's changed dramatically (my old school building no longer exists like many other buildings) but it still very much looks like an Australian city
WOW! So much progress still. So much more to take in. Great angles and views. If my Nana could see Parra now ... well, I don't think that she'd believe it. Great post BIG JAYDOG. DM.
Full Steam with Powerhouse Parramatta, it seems!
Yes 👍indeed
One of the largest CBDs in Australia, Great Video, cheers!
Indeed it is!
Parramatta has gone from a place that few people would want to visit just ten years ago to a visually exciting city center that will draw visitors by the millions. What a fabulous transformation.
Yes I agree
Great progress, out with the old in with the new.
Nice one soundmaster
love your videos !!!!
Ty
Great video! I used to be here for a short term training course in 2019. Everything has drammatically changed. There are so many constructions but still keep peaceful with green.
When they finishing off the mess at the wharf with asbestos fence digging there?
What is that round circle going up on the south side of the railway line? Did they take the land from the golf course? I am wondering what they will do to the cemetery eventually? It should be repaired & done up & used as a park. It is really sad to see the city I grew up visiting as my main shopping precinct & my dentist was there but long gone for a high tower. Can't say that I really like the end result of the town, no imagination at all!! Just a place of high towers & little sunlight to reach the streets in the end. 20 years from now it will be just another dirty city with no soul or character!!
Couldn't agree with you more. Wonder why they construct densely at a spot like this.
It’s the new swimming pool. When they rebuilt the stadium , the stadium took over the space occupied by the swimming pool so it had to be rebuilt somewhere else. So pecking order is Football, Swimming, Golf.
Parramatta hasn’t been clean in my memory. It could be allowed to rot like say Liverpool or Penrith where the only life left is inside the giant shopping malls I suppose but building both new residential and work towers are one way of bringing life back into the city.
My recent post - "What the government wants the government gets." No argument there, but the people should have some say in what happens to their home city. Try and locate one person who favoured the destruction of our amphitheatre and you will fail. Same with the Royal Oak Hotel. It wasn't needed for the tram line, it was destroyed just for the hell of it. Go check the abandoned concrete slab. And no Parramatta resident that I'm aware of favoured the destruction of Willow Grove.
Thousands of people opposed the destruction of our 'heritage listed' war memorial swimming pool. To hell with them. How many people do you know who thought it would be a good idea to rip up the railway line to Carlingford station and - at a cost of several million dollars - replace it with a tram line to the bottom of the hill? Chances are you don't know anyone.
As for the Roxy, it will be demolished and replaced with high rise office blocks. But only after the ruling oligarchs agree to it. Parramatta residents will end up with the concrete wasteland that politicians and councillors lust after. We will have no say in the matter. If that's the sort of world you want to live in, good luck, you may live to regret it.
Nothing beats progess. Parra is finally a real city
Some people might applaud what's going on but as a long-term resident of Parramatta, I am saddened. Everything of warmth and charm has been, or is being, wrecked. Why did the council destroy our Town Hall amphitheatre? Seven days a week it was occupied by musicians, bands, poets and religious nutjobs. Never a dull moment. Next it will be the Roxy Theatre. Smash it down. Lots of money to be earned there. Why not grant a licence and turn it into a world standard community centre? Presently we don't have one. Harry Todd Bugle Hut? You gotta be joking. I'm a dancer. No dancing at Parramatta Leagues nowadays. It's just a gambling den. No Dancing at Parramatta RSL Oops sorry, Club Parramatta. Nowadays Wenties Leagues is the closest dance venue.
Blue Books Cafe closed down. Not the council's fault this time but someone should have saved it. It was THE most wonderful facility in Paramatta. All gone. Heritage listed swimming pool - gone. Heritage listed Willow Grove - gone. Heritage listed Royal Oak pub - gone. It's just a vacant wasteland now. Sunday Market? Go to Blacktown. Nothing happening in Parramatta. Riverside Theatre - not bad. Shame about the ugly plot of blandness in the middle. It should be an oasis of joy rather than a plastic chair dumping ground. Parramatta desperately needs councilors with a hint of imagination. People who care about the city. Someone like me.
It's time for a new generation my friend. The old days are long gone.
@@johnlatham7092 It's the generation of high rise soulness and bleakness. Good luck with that.
I agree with you big time It used to have character and soul now replaced with units with dead pot plants and there undies flapping on there balcony’s it’s excurating
@@johnlatham7092 It suits the younger generations because they have no interest in the warmth and excitement of older cities. Why bother visiting a venue where you can meet friends, browse through hundreds of vinyl albums. check thousands of old books, enjoy a conversation with dozens of interesting people around an old oak table when you can sit at home twiddling your little twiddle box while swiping left and right? The new Parramatta is designed for the new-age dead.
@@RockinAtheist My dear friend I hear what you are saying. I too have a close connection to the old Parramatta having attended Marist Brothers Parramatta from 1962 onwards. I remember as a 10 year old climbing through the convict-built tunnels inside the Lennox bridge which ran all the way up to Victoria Rd. I remember dining at the Copper Canyon Restaurant and the Bar Roma Restaurant, and (OMG) the Black Stump ! They're gone but live on in our memories. I remember well the Royal Oak pub (my drinking pub during my uni years was the Woolpack). There are things I hate about the architecture in Parramatta. The worst is the "new" Catholic Cathedral on Victoria Rd. However, I'm sure the Roxy will survive. I agree what you say about the Leagues Club and the RSL which are just places where families are broken by pokies.
However, Parramatta is a major city growing from a population of 287K today to 500K in 2040. It is a financial and eductaional powerhouse. It needs to change and grow to remain not only Australia's first city but also one of its finest. Unfortunately this comes at a cost of losing buildings and places that hold memories that cannot be erased.
Take care mate.
Box Hill is better.
It looks a bit like one of those uninhabited cities in China.
How so? China was home for 10 years, and I live in Parramatta now. Doesn’t remind me of China at all really. Usually the big compounds would have 10 plus similar towers, and have a massive park/garden in the middle. We don’t have that here. The skyscrapers are also more dense, especially inside Puxi part of Shanghai where I mostly lived. Even new built up areas in Pudong would have that. More “dead” part of Shanghai like Songjiang, Anting, Jiading or outside Shanghai in Suzhou, Nanjing, Ningbo, also would usually have this characteristic. So the general vibe just isn’t there. Also it’s very small and surrounded by very green suburban area, so it has very little China nostalgia for me living here 😂😂
Also the high rises here are a lot more full than in mainland China. Even the half finished 180 on George has people living in it and the other high rises are full of people. In Shanghai the high rises seemed a lot more empty. Even more so outside.
Parramatta has changed a lot since I left in 2007. It’s unrecognisable, but it doesn’t remind me of China at all. If I would have to compare with a city outside that this reminds me of, I would say maybe Warsaw, as it’s also pretty suburban after you leave the centre that has a handful of skyscrapers like here. Warsaw city has a little more going on though.
@@sloppynyuszi 100%
Nope, I lived in China for 1 year, its nothing like it, in fact it feels very Australian to me.
@@sloppynyuszi Same I've been living in Parramatta since '06 and it's changed dramatically (my old school building no longer exists like many other buildings) but it still very much looks like an Australian city