"The end is near" for the establishment of a CBD Heritage Trail in Dubbo, according to deputy mayor Ben Shields.
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Dubbo City Council has allocated $40,000 to develop the public art project as a way of educating the city's residents and visitors, while encourage people to visit the central business district.
The project is nearing completion now council has approved the design and location of the 13 stations - seven which will revolve around crime and justice and six on society and culture.
Cr Shields said it had taken a long time to get the trail off the ground, however now the project was urgently needed.
"Never has there been a more urgent time that we do add to the ambiance and the experience and the potential attraction of the CBD than there is now. We have holes in the CBD that needs to be fixed up," he said.
However, Cr Shields said the heritage trail would help attract large numbers of people to the main streets.
"I understand we get over 100,000 people every year who visit our Visitor Information Centre. If we could just get 10 per cent of 100,000 to go and do this tourism walk that's going to be 10,000 people potentially getting to the CBD, walking up and down buying their cups of coffee, stopping for lunch and going shopping as well," he said.
Cr Shields said once the trail was finalised he was sure the retailers in the CBD would start benefiting from the increased foot traffic.