70 Blacket Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
| Event | Date | Price | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sold | Oct 1995 | $162,000 | $219 |
Price per m² based on land size of 738 m².
It is a house situated on a 738 m² block of land in the suburb of Downer.
The property sits on a land area of 738 square metres.
Within a short walk you’ll find Dickson Library (0.1 km), the Dickson Centre precinct (0.3 km), and Quality Hotel Dickson (0.4 km). The refurbished Downer shopping centre with a cafe and vet clinic is also nearby.
The Dickson Interchange metro station is about 0.6 km away, and the Swinden Street metro station is roughly 0.7 km distant, both providing easy access to Canberra’s bus network.
Yes, a bronze kangaroo sculpture was unveiled in May 2019 in the Downer community area, replacing an earlier missing piece.
Downer is built on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, overlain by Quaternary alluvium, reflecting the original “Limestone Plains” of the region.
The neighbourhood grew around a CSIRO agricultural research facility from the 1930s, which housed an opium poppy plantation during 1939‑45. Large pine and gum trees were planted as wind‑breaks, and many of those historic trees have since been replaced with local gum varieties.
