12 Gardiner Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
The property sits on a land parcel of 802 m². This provides ample space for a garden or outdoor areas.
The playing fields are approximately 0.3 km away, just a short walk from the home.
Downer rests on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, overlain by Quaternary alluvium. These rocks are part of the limestone that gave Canberra its original name, “Limestone Plains.”
The house is in the federal electorate of Canberra, represented by Alicia Payne of the Labor Party.
Within roughly 1 km you’ll find the Dickson Centre precinct, the Quality Hotel Dickson, Bill Pye Park, and Calvert Park, offering shopping, dining and green space options.
Yes, a bronze kangaroo sculpture was unveiled in May 2019 in the Downer shopping centre, replacing an earlier missing piece.
Downer was originally an agricultural research site for the CSIRO in the 1930s and housed an opium poppy plantation during World War II. Many of the large pine and gum trees planted then still shape the suburb’s landscape.
