High-rise development boom to transform Wollongong's skyline

Kate McIlwain
Updated December 2 2019 - 4:51pm, first published 4:30pm
Lines of sight: Whether you look down from Mount Keira or up from the Mall, looming black scaffolding-clad rectangles dominate Wollongong's skyline and signal the new buildings which will shape the city. Picture: Robert Peet.
Lines of sight: Whether you look down from Mount Keira or up from the Mall, looming black scaffolding-clad rectangles dominate Wollongong's skyline and signal the new buildings which will shape the city. Picture: Robert Peet.

For 36 years, Wollongong's tallest building has been a 1980s apartment block in North Wollongong.

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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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