This plaza will be 750 metres long and 170m at its widest point. Sydney's Martin Place is 450m long and 30m wide. Striking patterned interlocking pavers will stretch across the entire plaza. Other green elements proposed are a park between the Boulevard and the Showground, a row of figs framing the eastern edge of the plaza, a fig grove at the high point of the site and eucalypt plantings on the western side of the stadium. Creation of three water features - a cascading fountain at the high point of the site south of the Stadium, a single, vertical water feature at the Boulevard's southern end and a terraced fountain at its northern end which would purify stormwater through a series of ponds for recycling on the site.
Further sites are available on land gained from undergrounding the power lines.
Mr Knight said OCA integrated the public domain concept team, led by landscape architect George Hargreaves, with a group of consultants, led by Tonkin Zulaikha, which is preparing design codes for Homebush Bay's lighting, paving, signage and street furniture. Planning to date on the street furniture proposes a series of light towers up to 25 metres high which would also provide directional and event signage. Mr Knight said that, after detailed development of the public domain concept design was completed, construction work on the public domain will be carried out in three stages up to the end of 1999. The first stage, the areas near the Station and Showground and the eastern side of Olympic Plaza, will be completed by the 1998 Royal Easter Show.