Spalding Revitalisation Project - Stage Two

The Spalding Revitalisation Project Stage Two is part of a large urban renewal project in which the City partnered with the Department of Communities and Lotterywest to develop and deliver a plan to improve community sustainability by rejuvenating the heart of the Spalding community by creating a safe, inclusive, accessible, well connected and sustainable central hub, where the community can come together to learn, recreate and celebrate in a beautiful parkland setting.

Stage One and Two works are part of the State Government’s $9 million Spalding Regional Renewal Project.

While the Department of Communities focused on Stage One, the refurbishing of public housing and improving connectivity through the creation of new roads, the City concentrated on Stage Two, improving the ‘heart’ of the suburb, the Mitchell Street Community Centre and the area surrounding it. Construction works began on 1 May 2023 and was completed on 18 December 2023.

The AMC Park Masterplan, developed and endorsed by local community members of all ages and backgrounds, including Bluff Point Primary School students, has completely transformed the look and feel of the park and how the Mitchell Street Community Centre is used.

The $5.2 million project was joint funded with the State Government providing $4.9 million in grant funding and the City contributing the remainder towards the works.  More here

The upgrade to the AMC Park, which has been adorned with artworks created by Bluff Point Primary School students, was funded by Lotterywest.

IMAGE: Mayor Jerry Clune, Bluff Point Primary School Principal Celine Bellve and art teacher Annette Cooney (right) with students who created artworks for the park.

The substantial $1,445,572 Lotterywest grant funded the construction of an adventurous playground, basketball court, public art, yarning/education circle, covered picnic nodes, new pathways and landscaping and a bush tucker garden. More here

The Lotterywest funded upgrade to the AMC Park is made possible by people playing Lotterywest games. More on Lotterywest here

View the AMC Masterplan here.

IMAGE: AMC Park and Mitchell Street Community Centre before construction.

Background

In the first half of 2022, the City engaged with the Spalding community to develop a plan to revitalise the AMC Park and the Mitchell Street Community Centre. Landscape architects and urban designers, UDLA, worked closely with the Spalding Urban Renewal Team, a group made up of local residents, service providers and business operators along with year six Bluff Point Primary School students to develop the Master Plan. More here

IMAGE: AMC Park and the Mitchell Street Community Centre

The AMC Park Master Plan, which has changed the look and feel of the area located in the heart of the suburb. It features an adventurous playground, basketball court, public art, yarning/education circle, covered picnic nodes, new pathways, a bush tucker garden, a community garden, public toilets, more car parking with ACROD bays and alterations to the Mitchell Street Community Centre. More here

IMAGE: New veranda and the view of the park from inside the Centre

The Department of Communities has already made improvements to the area by removing a number of aged public houses on Bogle Way and Sullivan Court to create new road connections onto Mitchell Street and onto an extension of Robinson Street from Mitchell Street to Broome Street.

IMAGE: Robinson Street extention past the Community Centre.

The Spalding Revitalisation Plan has turned the recommendations the Spalding Precinct Plan, an overarching document that makes a series of high level recommendations for renewal of the suburb, into a detailed plan that describes how the revitalisation of the AMC Park, Mitchell Street Community Centre and the surrounding area should actually look and feel. 

Bogle Way Beautification

The beautification of the new road and pedestrian connection between Bogle Way and the Mitchell Street Community Centre began with the greening of the vacant land where aged public housing was removed.

Staff from the Department of Communities, Centacare and the City of Greater Geraldton along with Community Nursery Volunteers planted 100 seedlings and three small trees in the newly created open space including a native Jam Tree, a bush tucker tree with edible seeds that were traditionally ground into flour. More here

Image: Group planting day at Bogle Way

Frequently Asked Questions

Project FAQs here