Harbour Esplanade

Harbour Esplanade Victoria
Harbour Esplanade facing south opposite Victoria Dock, January 2017
Harbour Esplanade
Coordinates	37°49′02″S 144°56′46″E / 37.817286°S 144.946053°E / -37.817286; 144.946053
General information
Type	Street
Length	2.5 km (1.6 mi)
Opened	2007
Major junctions
North end	Footscray Road West Melbourne
	Dudley Street Docklands Drive La Trobe Street Bourke Street Collins Street
South end	Navigation Drive Docklands, Melbourne
Location(s)
LGA(s)	City of Melbourne
Suburb(s)	Docklands
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Harbour Esplanade is a waterfront street and thoroughfare in Docklands, an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It runs roughly north–south from Navigation Drive in the south to Docklands Drive in the north. The road also forms the eastern boundary of the Victoria Harbour inlet and is adjacent to Victoria Dock.

The esplanade is a core element of the Docklands urban renewal precinct and is known for housing Docklands Stadium and several converted dock buildings that now serve as pubs and function spaces. Harbour Esplanade is also the location of office buildings and restaurants, whilst the Capital City Trail runs parallel along some of its length.

It has been described as Melbourne's waterfront boulevard and its future potential is compared to the successful Circular Quay in Sydney.^[1]