Ipswich Central Heart: Arts, Commerce and Urban Greening

Explore the preliminary designs, meet the project team and designers, and share your feedback through a range of engagement opportunities.

We're working with communities to create Place Plans that guide future investment in local centres, public spaces and community facilities. Share your feedback and help shape the future of Ipswich’s suburbs.

✨ Discover recently opened businesses and new arrivals shaping the city centre.

The Arbour is now installed along East Street, between Roderick and South Streets. We have requesting for extension of the current permit.

As a result of community consultation, two scramble crossings have been installed in Ipswich Central to make it safer for pedestrians to move around.

This project brought Ipswich Central to life in the evening through different styles of lighting and graphic projections.

Ipswich Central events and activities now have a new online home on Discover Ipswich. To find out what’s happening in the heart of the city, simply visit the events page and use Advanced Search. Type Ipswich Central into the location field, hit search, and you’ll see what’s coming up.

Arts and culture are transformative elements for Ipswich Central. They help to position cities as attractive places to live, work and invest and are key to the revitalisation.

This project explored opportunities to renew d'Arcy Doyle Place as a key cultural and civic space in Ipswich Central, with community feedback helping to inform the preliminary concept design and future planning.

This project explored opportunities to convert spaces currently designed for cars into places people like to gather and spend time, creating a more vibrant city.

This program offered funding to support new businesses in Ipswich central.

Funding has now closed.

This project aimed to establish connected networks of green, safe, comfortable pedestrian focused streets this project will bring vitality back into the heart of Ipswich.

This program was designed to add potted greenery to premises and improve walkability and revitalise Ipswich Central.

Funding has now closed.

This program offered financial support for property owners with spaces above their businesses, allowing them to convert these areas into residential or short-term accommodation.

Funding has closed.

This program offered businesses in Ipswich Central the opportunity to secure funding to enhance their space and create a more vibrant engaging environment to attract customers.

Funding has closed.

Reducing speed limits in high active transport user areas not only improves safety for pedestrians and road users, but it enables footpath activities and street performances.

The Living Breathing Gallery aimed to encourage people to visit the Ipswich Centre Core and create a sense of arrival, through eye-catching murals, creative artworks and markers.

At over 80m this public art project embraces the connecting historic alleyway between Ellenborough St and the Nicholas Street Precinct.

Over two rounds, the Facade Improvement Program has supported more than $750,000 in investment towards the restoration and enhancement of our city's facades.