'People are trying to change Marrickville into this really hip area,' he told the Sydney Morning Herald. Lifelong local Michael Guirgis, 47, runs the Facebook group We Love Marrickville and says the suburb needs to keep in touch with its working class origins. Horrified locals have slammed plans to bring a 24-hour McDonald's to their hipster inner-city Sydney suburb - and branded the world-famous burgers 'spongy junk' There's no need for the Golden Arches.'īut some in the suburb are backing the return of the Big Mac, after an earlier Macca's in the area closed down 15 years ago. 'But it doesn't mean it will survive here. 'I'm not one for nimby-ism so whatever they like,' one told Today. Others said Macca's was welcome to build the new outlet - but warned it would likely close down. One branded McDonald's 'crass, trashy, nauseating and, worst of all, boring' and said it would be 'mortifying to bring down the culinary tone with gross, weird, spongy junk'.Īnother local told Nine's Today show on Wednesday: 'Marrickville's more about boutique cafes, supporting locals and quality coffee'. The Inner West Council's planning alert portal revealed the application had also been hit by furious feedback blasting the submission. Leyton Sloggett, 21, a published poet and a bar manager at The Imperial in nearby Erskinville, added: 'I don't really think we need any more. There was one in Newtown which closed in 1998. A McDonald's won't help the gentrification that's already happened in the area.'īrett Adrien (pictured) believes the proposed McDonald's would be an 'eyesore' 'Marrickville has a character on its own merit and McDonald's hasn't been successful in these parts. 'The consensus is that it doesn't really belong here,' he said. ![]() Marrickville was last year voted Australia's second-coolest neighbourhood by Time Out magazine - coming a close second to Melbourne's ultra-hip suburb of Fitzroy.īrett Adrien, 34, who was a Marrickville local for seven years and still works in the area, said it would be an 'eyesore'. But pork rolls are just here and they are so amazing.' 'McDonald's is McDonald's - you can get it anywhere. 'Honestly, I'd prefer to eat from the local Vietnamese pork roll shops,' she said. Thea Martin, 18, who is still at high school and works part-time in Coles, is opposed to a McDonald's. ![]() The proposed site where the fast food giant has lodged a pre-development application plans for a new outlet in trendy Marrickville, close to craft beer specialist Bob Hawke Beer and Leisure Centre
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