Queen Victoria Market Precinct Renewal

Queen Victoria Market is a Melbourne icon, loved by locals, visitors, and everyone in between.

This is why we’re investing in the market’s future, delivering vital upgrades and new facilities and spaces through our renewal program.

Works are well underway, with visitors already enjoying the new Queen's Food Hall, and shopping under the fully restored, 145-year-old heritage sheds. Therry Street has been upgraded, creating more space for strolling, sitting, and soaking up the atmosphere, and the Victoria Street restrooms have also been refurbished.

The new Munro development is home to narrm ngarrgu (nahm nar-GUW) library and family services which opened its doors in 2023,

and a modern 500-space underground car park for market visitors includes e-vehicle charging stations, accessible spaces, and spaces for parents with prams.

Meanwhile, essential new trader facilities are under construction on Queen Street. This state-of–the-art facility will allow centralised access to stock and refrigerated storage for traders.

A new waste solution will also make it easier for traders to do business, and landscaped areas will provide more places to sit and relax, while improving safety for all those who visit and work at the market.

We’ll continue to restore the market’s heritage buildings including the Meat and Fish Hall, Dairy Produce Hall and Elizabeth Street terraces to protect the future of these buildings, making it easier for traders to operate and customers to shop.

We’ll transform the open-air car park into 1.8 hectares of open space - one of the largest of its kind in the CBD - with welcoming green spaces for people to savour the market experience, relax with family and friends and enjoy events and activities.

Complementing the renewal program will be Gurrowa Place. The mixed-use development will boost business for traders with more customers living and working right on the market’s doorstep. Together with the Munro car park, there will be no loss of customer parking, with over 220 parking spaces connecting to the restored Franklin Street Stores, and straight into the heart of the market.

The Queens Corner Building will deliver important amenities for the community and support the wider precinct through activation.

Queen Victoria Market has been operating since 1878 and remains open throughout renewal. The welcoming character that makes the market experience so special – the sights, sounds, theatre and personalities – will all remain as we continue to develop our iconic market.