Renew Australia works with broader revitalisation and placemaking initiatives to bring towns and mainstreets to life.
We support communities and property owners in making their vacant shops, offices, and buildings available rent free or low cost to artists, creative projects, start-up businesses and community initiatives.
Check the videos below for more on ourprojects and participants around Australia
Revitalising spaces
Renew Australia is a national social enterprise. Our goal is to create opportunities for artists, creatives, and social enterprises, and bring life and activity to streets and towns while doing so.
Our services include:
- Scoping and feasibility studies
- Managed Renew Australia projects
- DIY projects in our Affiliate program
- Consultant services
Our projects:
- promote community renewal,
- increase activity and foot-traffic,
- use specialised contracts and insurance,
- generate opportunities for creative and start-up businesses, not-for-profits, and social enterprises
- compliment, not compete with, local businesses and traders
- are all different - each Renew Project is tailored to needs of the street, precinct, town or city in which it is based
Renew Australia is an apolitical organisation. We’re not part of the government nor do we have an allegiance to any political party. We work alongside government departments and private sector entities such as:
- Economic Development departments,
- Arts and Cultural services,
- City Centre Management teams,
- Council Placemakers,
- Creative Placemakers
- Traders associations
- Property Developers
- Shopping Centres
Once again I would like to thank you for all your efforts on assisting me with my properties in Fitzroy st St Kilda
St Kilda is still an extremely difficult area to lease at the moment given the dynamics although I’m sure the demographics, position and the work that Renew continues to put in will see a positive change.
With this change, Landlords like me will benefit long term. In the meantime if the empty shop can have vibrant short term operators creating colourful activity its a step in the right direction.
Latest news
Renew Alice Springs has launched!
We are very happy to announce our newest project Renew Alice Springs (Mparntwe)! Partnering with Alice Springs Town Council we will be activating empty shops on Todd Mall with creative ...
Renew Alice Springs Info Session
Alice Springs Civic Centre, Alice Springs, NT Tuesday, September 22 • 6 PM – 7 PM Join us to find out more about participating in the Renew Alice Springs project ...
