Laneways and parks make up much of Melbourne's distinctive character and the city with its outstanding recreational and picturesque places. You are possibly aware of the upgrading of city laneways such as Hardware Lane and Degraves Street. So it's not too difficult to imagine the kind of vital urban spaces or landscape architects will achieve in Downie Street.

Downie Street will be an intimate, sheltered laneway in a leafy tree-lined neighbourhood where you will be able to sit and sip an espresso and the read "The Age" after your morning job through the parklands along the banks of the Yarra River.