Melbourne's Lord Mayor says uncertainty over the CBD's safe injecting room is 'becoming highly damaging' amid a new location being mooted, with city traders facing 'overwhelming' anxiety.
Melbourne Lord Mayor Sally Capp has described the ongoing saga around the CBD's safe injecting room as"highly damaging" amid reports a new location is being considered by the Andrews government.
The former Yooralla building on Flinders Street was then mooted after the government bought it in 2021 for about $40 million and described it as a"a strategic health asset". "I've already had a trader on the phone earlier this morning. The angst and the anxiety that comes from all of the rumours… is overwhelming for so many traders," she said.
"When it was first announced years ago now at Drill Hall near Queen Victoria Market, all of the same issues that we identified then in terms of impacts on traders and local residents, I think are multiplied in a position such as Bourke Street," she said.
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