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5 December 2023
By Hannah Wilcox
Some big name food outlets from the inner west are set to open their doors in 2024 at the new Victoria Cross building in North Sydney.
Popular joint Mary’s will be making its debut on the north side of the bridge, alongside Marrickville Pork Roll, Only Coffee, Top Impressions Bakery, Sushi Hub, DOPA, North Sandwiches, Machi Machi and McDonalds.
20 stores will be located in the precinct above the highly anticipated Victoria Cross Metro station, which is to be completed by 2024, with more to be announced in the coming months.
At the heart of North Sydney’s transformation into a secondary CBD, the 42-storey tower will combine commercial office space – accommodating up to 7,000 workers – and retail offerings.
The station will connect directly to a concourse level with ‘on-the-go’ shopfronts, before reaching a new pedestrian laneway at the centre of the precinct anchored by Miller House.
Miller Street will include five new terrace restaurants, with 13 of the total food and beverage retailers located in the concourse and laneway.
The remaining seven will open in 2025.
“Victoria Cross is going to bring a new wave of hospitality offers to North Sydney – we are going to see a little bit of Newtown and a bit of Haymarket along with Sydney CBD icons joining some of the best from the North side of the bridge,” Lendlease Victoria Cross Project Director Jessica Paterson said.
“With the first retailers set to open mid next year, and the precinct to be completed by 2025, Victoria Cross will soon be a social business district for workers, visitors and locals and complement North Sydney council’s public domain strategy to foster thriving activity from East to West of the CBD.”
The building will be one of Australia’s most sustainable precincts, with all concourse retail tenants powered by renewable sources and operating carbon neutral.
All retailers are required to reduce their embodied and operating carbon both in fit out and operations by more than 20% of the industry benchmark.
The newly announced vendors will join the recently opened wave of thriving restaurants in the area such as Glorietta, Loulou Bistro, RAFI and Poetica.