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Brunswick Bouldering Wall 21-Jul-2014 At 10:15:31 AM johnk

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On 21/07/2014 VCC wrote:
>Dear all.
>
>Thanks for your support on the now approved Brunswick bouldering plaza.
>The community support really
>got it over the line.
>
>The original intent was just to get something climbable on Melbourne’s
>north side, the plaza idea came from a Moreland Council invitation to take
>part in a competition that the Justice Department was running to create
>urban interventions which would deter low level crime in public space.
>This competition gave the initial funds to create the space.
>
>There is no infrastructure in Moreland to facilitate a “Burnley” so the
>final boulder will be determined by the space, brief and budget we are
>given as dictated by Moreland Urban Design. The boulder will have about
>17m of traversable area and will be built by a known and experienced climbing
>fabricator with the intent of handing the running over to VCC or a community
>group.
>
>Just to clear the air, everyone involved in the design process climbs.
>We are not power mutants, just part of the faceless masses who love to
>climb to varying degrees of success. We are better public space designers
>than climbers and apologize but don’t really apologize for that in advance
>for those who care
>about that sort of thing.
>
>The intent of the entire project is as much about activating public space
>as it is about climbing and we hope it will spawn other small movements
>throughout the city to compliment the gyms and natural resources we have
>in Victoria.
>
>Thanks again to those who supported the project. We hope people just see
>this space for what it is and come down for a climb, meet mates, meet randoms,
>eat from a food truck, get a coffee, go op shopping, give $2 to a busker,
>go see a band, whatever, it is a Brunswick boulder after all.
>
>Just another moment in climbing and life.
>
>Peace

Very well said - and everyone living in Brunswick and the surrounds is totally wrapped!