[huenthar]

I was also hoping that the Budget site would get a non-office-tower use that could tie in with Library Square/the Centre/cultural precinct somehow.

It always looked to me like the Centre never really attracted bigger/more popular shows; they had those big banners saying "the home of the action-musical!" etc. which I don't think helped sell the venue to audiences much... If the only hitch is the loading space I wonder if someone could make a go of it expanding into the Budget site (with other uses as well) by banking on attracting more/higher calibre productions (even for instance Vegas-style stuff).