High-rise office block plans spark campaign to save Wollongong live music venue Rad Bar

Kate McIlwain
May 30 2017 - 7:30pm
Not rad: Sion Gruffydd, Jye Talbot and Daniel Radburn outside their Kembla Street venue, which would disappear under new development plans. Picture: Robert Peet
Not rad: Sion Gruffydd, Jye Talbot and Daniel Radburn outside their Kembla Street venue, which would disappear under new development plans. Picture: Robert Peet

News of a proposal to build an 11-storey office block at the lower end of Crown Street Mall has sparked an outcry from hundreds of Wollongong’s live music fans.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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