NSW: Sydney's Town Hall to get facelift and bottom treatment

AAP General News (Australia)
04-24-2007
NSW: Sydney's Town Hall to get facelift and bottom treatment

A major restoration planned for Sydney's historic Town Hall will cost 60 million dollars
.. and see the building close for a year.

A team of stonemasons will work on the hall's crumbling sandstone facade .. while archaeologists
supervise a dig beneath the building .. into the earth of Sydney's first cemetery.

The excavated space will then be used for a new plant room.

Sydney Lord Mayor CLOVER MOORE says the work could start next year .. and it's time
to bite the bullet and rescue the building after years of inaction.

Council meetings and administrative offices will be housed in existing City of Sydney
buildings during the closure.

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