104 Melba Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
The property sits on a 722 m² land lot, providing ample space for a house and garden within the Downer suburb.
Downer is bounded by Northbourne Avenue, Antill Street and Phillip Avenue. 104 Melba Street is about 0.5 km from Phillip Avenue, giving easy access to the surrounding arterial roads.
A short walk brings you to the local oval surrounded by Frencham, Melba, Bonython and Bradfield Streets, as well as a refurbished shopping centre that now includes a café, a veterinary clinic, and a bronze kangaroo sculpture unveiled in 2019.
The Swinden Street Metro station is approximately 0.9 km away, and the EPIC and Racecourse light‑rail station is about 1.3 km distant, providing convenient rail connections.
Exhibition Park (0.8 km) offers a large showground and event spaces, Canberra Racecourse is 0.9 km away, and the National Hockey Centre is roughly 1.4 km from the property.
The suburb sits on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, which are overlain by Quaternary alluvium, part of the limestone plains that gave Canberra its original name.
Downer grew around a 1930s CSIRO research facility that once cultivated opium poppies during World War II; many of the large pine and gum trees planted then remain as historic wind‑breaks, although some have been replaced in recent conservation efforts.
