When opened as part of the Metro Tunnel project, Arden will be an underground premium station, featuring an island platform with two faces.

[7] Arden Street was chosen as the site for a new railway station to support the expansion of the central city and provide a focus for the development of a new commercial, residential and activity centre in North Melbourne.

[8] The Victorian government has stated that Arden station will support job creation by improving public transport access to inner-west Melbourne, an area which has been earmarked for urban renewal.

Fifty-six hectares of land around the proposed Arden station, much of which is owned by the State Government, is earmarked for revitalisation as part of the project.

Calder’s painting View from Royal Park across West Melbourne Swamp (1860) with outstretched aluminium hands reaching across the mosaic.

[19] The Metro Tunnel is set to transform the Arden precinct, with around 6,000 square metres (65,000 sq ft) of public gathering space likely to be created.