1 Berry Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
The property sits on a 710 m² block. It provides ample space for a garden or outdoor entertaining area.
Swinden Street Metro Station and the Dickson Interchange are each about 0.4 km away, offering easy access to Canberra’s light‑rail network.
Dickson Centre and Dickson Library are both roughly 0.3 km away, while the Quality Hotel Dickson and the International Institute for Sustainability Australia are within 0.5 km. The local oval and playing fields are also within a kilometre.
Downer was originally a CSIRO agricultural research site in the 1930s and was used for opium poppy cultivation during World War II. The community centre and shops were built for the CSIRO and later refurbished with a café and veterinary clinic.
The site sits on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, overlain by Quaternary alluvium – the limestone that gave Canberra its original name, “Limestone Plains.”
Federally, Downer is in the electorate of Canberra, represented by Alicia Payne (Labor). In the ACT Legislative Assembly it falls within the Kurrajong electorate, which elects five members proportionally.
A bronze kangaroo sculpture was unveiled in May 2019 near the Downer shopping centre, replacing an earlier missing piece.
