Link to UPDATED Version – https://youtu.be/5g-ZsHmZVuM
Hunter Street Station will be the terminus of Sydney Metro West when it opens in 2030. This major new station within Sydney’s CBD will become a transport hub with pedestrian links to Wynyard Station and Martin Place Metro and Train Station.
In this video, I explain how Hunter Street station will have two separate concourses and multiple entrances. These are Hunter Street West which will have entrances on George Street and Hunter Street, and Hunter Street East which will have an entrance on O’Connell Street and an underground connection to Martin Place Metro Station.
But for all this to happen, a number of buildings will have to go! These include the Hunter Connection and its amazing food court, along with a major office building at 9 Hunter Street which includes the trendy Hunter House Cafe. Other office buildings to go include Leda House on Hunter Street and Watson House on George Street.
And for the Hunter Street East concourse, three major office blocks at 28 O’Connell Street, 48 Hunter Street and 37 Bligh Street will go. And in the basement of one of these buildings was the infamous Frankie’s Pizza live music venue, which closed in December 2022.
With the help of Sydney Metro Animated videos and diagrams, I explain the proposed layout for the east and west entrances to Hunter Street Station. This includes the location of lifts and escalators and how the two station entrances will be linked.
And finally, I briefly cover the over station developments that are proposed for both Hunter Street Station East and Hunter Street Station West, with one of these buildings being 58 storeys, so that will certainly dominate the skyline!
* Chapters *
0:00 Introduction
0:47 Hunter Street Station West and buildings to go overview
1:11 Introduction to the Hunter Connection
1:35 Wynyard Station new lower concourse
2:49 George Street Tunnel
3:14 Hunter Connection Lower Floor
4:37 Hunter Connection Middle Floor (and 109 Pitt Street)
6:28 Hunter Connection Upper Floor (Food Court)
8:36 Hunter Street to George Street Passageway
9:05 Hunter Connection – The secret fourth level!
9:33 George Street office buildings and retail outlets
12:11 Former Skinners Family Hotel heritage building
12:55 5 and 9 Hunter Street office buildings
15:23 Pangas House (Comfort Hotel)
15:45 Hunter Street Station West Entrances and Virtual Tour
17:58 Hunter Street Station East Introduction
18:13 Delfin / Bank of NSW House – 16-18 O’Connell Street
18:36 Martin Place construction site shed
19:12 28 O’Connell Street
20:38 48 Hunter Street
21:33 Introduction to 37 Bligh Street
21:53 Frankie’s Pizza
23:04 Other retail tenancies on Hunter Street
23:47 About Time Bar
24:29 37 Bligh Street office tower
25:02 NSW Club Building (31 Bligh Street)
25:29 Hunter Street Station East Entrance and Station Design
26:04 Interchanges with Martin Place Metro and Train Station
26:41 Martin Place to Barangaroo South underground pedestrian connection
27:19 Crossovers and tunnel stubs for future extension
27:40 Over station developments
* Attribution *
Open Streetmap – Map Data © OpenStreetMap contributors: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
Sydney Metro: The New Hunter Street (Sydney CBD) Metro Station Animated Video –
https://youtu.be/ZoDhbCK47Rs
Sydney Metro: Concept plans for Hunter Street metro precinct revealed video – https://youtu.be/kpdWM6v98IU
Sydney Metro West EIS Part B Chapter 15 Hunter Street Station – https://majorprojects.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/prweb/PRRestService/mp/01/getContent?AttachRef=SSI-22765520%2120220318T063615.533%20GMT
Sydney Metro Map
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Attribution Milkyway metro maps, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Google Streetview Images – © 2022 Google Australia –https://about.google/brand-resource-center/products-and-services/geo-guidelines/#street-view-web-and-apps
Sydney Metro Martin Place Station and Integrated Transport Precinct Video https://youtu.be/_FXZVeVMadc
EIS Summary for Hunter Street over station development – https://media.caapp.com.au/ce3bki.pdf
Aerial View of Hunter Street Station with New Office Towers – https://media.caapp.com.au/v3a04m
West Tower – https://media.caapp.com.au/wbb79t
East Tower – https://media.caapp.com.au/vfdkyo
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* Other Links *
Ivy Extension – Urban Developer- https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/hemmes-plans-billion-dollar-sydney-cbd-precinct
Snow Patrol – Snow Patrol – When It’s All Over We Still Have to Clear Up – Snow Patrol – When It’s All Over We Still Have to Clear Up – https://youtu.be/WfBbMH-3SSY
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This video has been updated mainly to correct pronunciations, but also with new information on where the tunnels will finish after Hunter Street Station. – Here is the link to the updated video – https://youtu.be/5g-ZsHmZVuM
Thanks YouTube algorithm 😂.Top video. I've worked in Sydney CBD since the 1980s and used to frequent Hunter connection food court for a few years in 90s. Some really good detailed info in here, and some of it I'd almost forgotten . Very nostalgic for me. I've worked in so many buildings and now back around the revamped Carrington. Will go back and watch some more of your content.
Goodbye cheap lunch 😂
You do a better video explaining the project than NSW Government 👍
Very sad to see the food court at Hunter Connection go because the food was excellent and well prices. The place had a lot of patronage.
Thanks for another great video, Paul. Your recordings of the buildings, both exterior and interior, that are to be demolished, are historically valuable too.
They've really neglected that area, it's obvious when you visit the food court, but I will miss the cheaper meals there.
I generally enjoyed eating at the Hunter Connection food court until one unfortunate day when I found a pube in my chicken schnitzel.
Thank you for making this video and capturing the final memories of the Hunter Connection. I worked in the area 20 years ago and have some great memories of a lot of the shops. The food court was the best! Thank you for a great video.
There used to be a small hole in the wall Soup place just up the walkway from the George st entrance. They had about 4-5 different soups to choose. I fondly remember the Potato and Leek. It was excellent.
Paul " sadly missed" pretty well sums up the enormous disruption this new Metro Station will cause. I am very doubtful what benefits it will bring when you have Wynyard already efficiently moving many more people than the single line Metro can bring. It seems an absurdity to have this Metro station when you have another Metro station not far away at Martin Place nd a new one at Bangaroo??? Someone did not do their homework
The loss of the hunter st connection is so sad. The places to buy lunch now is limited and to be honest, pretty shit.
Paul to add to my comment below, just saw this. What we need is not useless destruction.
"Around the country, suburban shopping strips are fighting to stay alive.
In the Sydney suburb of Leichhardt, there are currently more than a dozen empty shops that have "for sale" or "for lease" signs.
"It's been quite sad to see a lot of businesses closing," local resident"
Sydney is beautiful.
Very minor thing: Westpac is St George's parent company, so it's not surprising that they own the building where the St George branch is
How sad.
This video is actually an amazing work of research and presentation.
Thank you for all the time, effort, detail and care you put into it.
The HC was my favourite CBD destination, as it had so many shops and services that I found personally useful, and was so handy to Wynyard Station.
To hear that it will basically be a useless building site until 2030 (or probably later!) is disappointing to say the least.
Our politicians are expert at causing long periods of disruption and inconvenience for very little, if any, eventual gain.
This was super interesting to watch! While I knew the metro was coming and had seen all the shops closing down I didn't really know the details, so this has been very informative
Excellent overview. Thanks.
I remember there was MacDonald's in the food court when I was a kid. Good old days
it really is impressive how you managed to edit in such a professional way and narrate in such an inoffensive way. That and the content is genuinely interesting. Love your work.
Too bad Ivy is staying and Frankie’s had to go
Very informative. Thank you!
Thank you for this detailed and well researched video.
I predict this will turn into an absolute mess redevelopment of the existing station is very ordinary despite taking yours to complete & theirs is just too much ground being lost to rail. Martin Place is a disaster in the making also after 5 years they've opened up half the block from Castlereagh St to Elizabeth St and promptly closed the other half, but what were they doing for those 5 years ripping up the pavers and throwing down asphalt is all it appears
Paul great video again.
Just wondering if you know of a complete photo and video ban on all sydney trains stations ?
Just that a idoit on facebook is screaming that there is a complete ban on anybody filming just wondering if you have heard of this as i see you do a lot of vidoes on and around stations
12:17 That heritage building was also the some of the offices for AMEX back in the Mid-2000s till about 2015 when it seems it become a convenience store.. Google streetview shows a nice history of what was and whats become.. 🙂
Worked in 9 Hunter Street back in the early 90's. Remember it for having very bad elevators. Hunter Connection was a good place for lunch, even back then a combination of Asian and Indian places. They were pretty good, and great value. Another access to the Hunter Connection was through 109 Pitt Street. Shame to see it all coming to an end. Great video!
Interesting video. I think a lot of these old office towers are somewhat redundant. Most blue chip companies want modern fancy office towers in with high energy ratings.
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Amazing video
Thanks for making this as
Had no idea hunter street shops were going
Going to be bumping into you one day when i'm out and about live streaming! 🙂
Very sad to see the Hunter connection go. Have had many many fond memories of eating cheap and delicious chinese food there for lunch over at least 15 years as I used to work a block or two away. Also used to have PO Box at that location and would collect my mail upstairs every mid week day – I wonder where those PO Boxes are getting relocated to. Very frustrated that the metro is going to stop at Hunter Street… Government should have looked to extend it beyond to Zetland and possibly further within the first build of the new line… Yes, Yes Yes I know that it is in the so called "future" planning but by the time that gets built I think we will all be dead and buried. A golden opportunity missed.
Excellent video. Thank you for your time and effort, much appreciated.
Have had quite a few meals there. Haven't been there since COVID so felt quite nostalgic seeing your video. My hair dresser was also in Hunter connection.
Oh god can we just be rid of the tories already?
This place reminds me of Market City, Haymarket, they had a lot of restaurants on the top floor. And it was always busy on weekdays, but for some reason they closed them all, now they only have a small food-court on the ground floor. 😔
Nice station, but I still prefer Chillingbourne.
Working at 285, I go to the these hunter street food court most day between 2003-2008.
Hello, I enjoy your videos very much. Took a walk through Hunter Connection the other day, only a few food retailers left now so the whole place already has a forlorn abandoned feel. Oh and I had a laugh at the "Massage" place. Uh huh.
Spent hundreds of hours at the upper level food court back in the day when I worked in the area. The decor of the entire place never changed over the decades which was part of the appeal for me personally. Well as they say time waits for no man and all that.
Great video! Keep up the good work. Looking forward to the next one.
Brilliant video , really enjoyed it and thank you for the clear explanation
An important piece of heritage is the little square outside 37 Bligh Street, which is called Richard Johnson Square. It commemorates the spot where the first church service was held in the colony of New South Wales. This square will be preserved.
I worked at 37 Bligh Street for 10 years until the beginning of 2022. It is a great location. I look forward to seeing the exciting new development of this area.
This was such a great place for cheap food . Good times !
Sad to see these buildings go.
Thanks, Paul!
A few months ago I had the displeasure of walking through this place and discovering how inaccessible it was as I walk with a stick. I got lucky and a postie allowed me to go through the service lift. But yeah what a rabbit warren!
good video mate