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[townsendcalling]

I think "South of Bell St" has almost become trendy/expensive now following several years of gentrification.

The aptly named ‘Coliseum’. Heidelberg Heights has gone gangbusters pricewise. Give West Heidelberg 8-10 years. It is too close to the city to stay derelict. Long term buyers bargains to be had. (Who would have lived in  Collingwood 20 years ago??)

[Professer E]

There were a lot of rumours going around about the ????.

[cookie2]

The aptly named ‘Coliseum’. Heidelberg Heights has gone gangbusters pricewise. Give West Heidelberg 8-10 years. It is too close to the city to stay derelict. Long term buyers bargains to be had. (Who would have lived in  Collingwood 20 years ago??)

Yep. I think things are already beginning to stir in "West Heidy". I first witnessed the situation there in the seventies (I lived just off Waiora Rd) and it was definitely a "Fort Apache the Bronx" world then. Many parts of it are now under gentrification and even the old Olympic Village properties are being sold off and renovated. The recent general market softening may even speed things up there.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Grew up in the "mean streets" of Ivanhoe (the Eaglemont / East Ivanhoe part), so can't really comment

Have to start calling you Silvertail Benny....  

[ElwoodBlues1]

Yep. I think things are already beginning to stir in "West Heidy". I first witnessed the situation there in the seventies (I lived just off Waiora Rd) and it was definitely a "Fort Apache the Bronx" world then. Many parts of it are now under gentrification and even the old Olympic Village properties are being sold off and renovated. The recent general market softening may even speed things up there.

Liked the shops across the road from the Olympic Village area, my kids played a few basketball games there at the village, weird old stadium....the shops were nearly all closed
and covered in corrugated tin sheets...looked like an area that had seen war.....

[townsendcalling]

Grew up in the "mean streets" of Ivanhoe (the Eaglemont / East Ivanhoe part), so can't really comment

Alphonse Gagitano territory!!!

[DJC]

I spent a lot of time at a mate's place in Liberty Parade when I was in my mid teens.  I was amazed at how quickly the word spread that I was from Coburg.  We'd be wandering the streets and 3 or 4 Sharpies would approach and grunt, "You're the Coburg boy?" before stalking off.  It didn't encourage any interest from the local girls though ... and that was probably a good thing.

I survived unscathed, apart from the mental scars 

[Professer E]

Sharpie wasn't referring to their intellectual ability.

[chalkybill]

There used to be an American Military camp just over the road from the zoo, called CAMP PHELL.  You may recall the BROWN OUT MURDERER came from there.  When the yanks left, the dregs of society were housed in the former barracks.  They kept the barbed wire fence up (locals said to keep the residents in)  After the Olympics the government thought it best to split the inmates up - so half went to Broadmeadows and the other half to the former Olympic Village, thus creating two problem areas.  >  > >  The former military camp was quickly torn down.

[DJC]

There used to be an American Military camp just over the road from the zoo, called CAMP PHELL.  You may recall the BROWN OUT MURDERER came from there.  When the yanks left, the dregs of society were housed in the former barracks.  They kept the barbed wire fence up (locals said to keep the residents in)  After the Olympics the government thought it best to split the inmates up - so half went to Broadmeadows and the other half to the former Olympic Village, thus creating two problem areas.  >  > >  The former military camp was quickly torn down.

Some of my relos were in that camp Chalky ????