King Street Wharf | |||||
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 View fromPyrmont Bridge in December 2011 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Lime Street, Sydney New South Wales Australia | ||||
| Coordinates | 33°52′03″S151°12′06″E / 33.86737°S 151.20172°E /-33.86737; 151.20172 | ||||
| Owned by | Transport for NSW | ||||
| Operated by | Captain Cook Cruises (Wharf 1 and 2) | ||||
| Platforms | 9 wharves (14 berths) | ||||
| Construction | |||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | circa 2000 | ||||
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King Street Wharf is a mixed-use tourism, commercial, residential, retail and maritime development on the eastern shore ofDarling Harbour, an inlet ofSydney Harbour, Australia. Located on the western side of the city'scentral business district, the complex served as a maritime industrial area in the early and mid 20th century. It was redeveloped as part of extensiveurban renewal projects around Sydney Harbour in the 1980s and 90s.[1] The complex is host to a cluster of nine wharves, with the first two wharves currently in use by private ferry operatorCaptain Cook Cruises and a third decommissioned bySydney Ferries.
King Street Wharf is adjacent to theDarling Harbour tourist precinct, and on the western edge of theSydney central business district.[2]
The residential towers occupy the area bounded byKing Street to the south, Shelley Street to the east, Erskine Street to the north andLime Street to the west, including:
The commercial waterfront is between Lime Street andDarling Harbour, and extends slightly north of the end of Erskine Street.[3] It consists of 85 commercial suites with a retail component set underneath. This retail area contains 11 restaurants, the largest of which seats 450 including its outdoor areas.
UnderWalker Corporation, the retail and restaurants, stages of residential and serviced apartments and commercial/retail strata suites were completed. The remainder of the development parcels are still being developed byBrookfield Multiplex. They include the completedKPMG headquarters,American Express House,Ibis Hotel,Macquarie Bank headquarters and One Shelley Street office building.[4]The remaining development will consist of further commercial and retail and public parking expected to be completed over the next few years. It also involves associated infrastructure such as roadworks, car parking, charter vessel berthing facilities and coach parking.
Wharf 1 is currently used byCaptain Cook Cruises as a stop on its Darling Harbour to Circular Quay service. The wharf is serviced by 22 daily services on weekdays, and 23 daily services on weekends and public holidays on looping stopping patterns originating from Harbour Master Steps ferry wharf and terminating atCircular Quay ferry wharf. An additional morning service on weekends originates from the Pier 26 ferry wharf.[5]
Wharf 2 is currently used by Captain Cook Cruises as the terminus of its Darling Harbour to Manly shuttle service. Seventeen services toManly Wharf depart from Wharf 2 daily on weekdays, with seven departures on weekends and public holidays.[6]
Originally opened as one of the many privately operated wharves in the King Street Wharf development,[7] Wharf 3 was selected as the recommended temporary site for a second major terminal on theSydney Ferries network in theWalker Report, which also recommended that the King Street ferry wharf be upgraded and established as a Western city ferry hub to lessen ferry congestion atCircular Quay, with fare gates and ticketing machines introduced.[8] These were implemented in October 2010.[9][10]
It was used bySydney FerriesFirst Fleet andRiverCat class ferries operatingF3 Parramatta River andF4 Darling Harbour services from 2010 until 2017.[11][12] On 26 June 2017, Sydney Ferries services ceased using the wharf with the opening of the nearbyBarangaroo ferry wharf.[13]
