Southbank

Southbank is an internal urban neighborhood of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1 km south of the Melbourne focal business region. Its neighborhood government zone are the urban areas of Melbourne and Port Phillip. At the 2011 Census, Southbank had a populace of 11,235. Its southernmost region is viewed as a major aspect of the focal business locale of the city. Southbank is circumscribed toward the north by the Yarra River, and toward the east by St Kilda Road.

Southbank's southern and western outskirts are limited by Dorcas Street, Kings Way, the West Gate Freeway and Montague Street. Southbank was once in the past a modern zone and part of South Melbourne. It was changed into a thickly populated area of skyscraper condo and places of business starting in the mid 1990s, as a feature of a urban recharging program. With the special cases of the social area along St Kilda Road, couple of structures worked before this time were saved by redevelopment.

Today, Southbank is ruled by tall building advancement. It is one of the essential business focuses in Greater Melbourne, being the base camp of Treasury Wine Estates, Crown Limited, Alumina, Incitec Pivot, The Herald and Weekly Times counting the Herald Sun, and also territorial workplaces of many significant partnerships, in a bunch of towers with more than 340,000 square meters of office space in 2008.