Sneak peek at Barangaroo development plans
FIRST ON 7: Sydney’s $6 billion Barangaroo project is surging ahead, already transforming the city’s western flank.
Massive building foundations are going in, but the public playground will be Headland Park - and construction is well and truly underway to transform the old dockside into one of our prettiest precincts.
7News gained an exclusive first look, when the design team showed the Premier what it has been up to.
"Just extraordinary to see the recreation of the headland as it was at the time of settlement," Premier Barry O'Farrell said.
The park will eventually consume 30,000 tonnes of sandstone blocks, all quarried from the Barangaroo site.
Like a giant jigsaw, each one is earmarked for an exact place on the foreshore to create tidal pools for children to play in.
"As the tide recedes, the water will stay in those areas," the Premier said.
Sixty-tonne excavators are being used, and 230 workers are on site.
It may look like a giant sandpit now, but in just two years the six hectare spacewill be transformed into a magnificent parkland.
It will include more than 75,000 trees and shrubs, all natives specially grown at a nursery on the Central Coast.
"This park will become as identifiable for Sydney internationally as the Opera house and Harbour Bridge," Premier O'Farrell said.
The park is due for completion in 2015.
