Jolimont
Jolimont is Melbourne's park suburb that forgot to add grocery stores — 23 courts mapped, Fitzroy Gardens, the MCG casting its shadow, and 3 groceries flagged as a gap. The socialGlue is 87. Everyone knows where the nearest football pitch is and uses it.
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About this Neighborhood
Jolimont is the neighborhood that exists between the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the Fitzroy Gardens, which is to say it exists between a stadium and a heritage park, and the residents have built their lives in that specific gap. The courts count of 23 is the highest in this batch — Punt Road Oval, Powlett Reserve Tennis Centre, and a dozen more park ovals — reflecting a suburb where sport is genuinely embedded in the physical fabric. Fitzroy Gardens and Treasury Gardens are the green anchors; they're actual destinations, not pocket parks. Sixteen restaurants is sparse; the grocery gap is real at a z-score of -1.21 (Richmond Jolimont Convenience Store and a 7-Eleven do not constitute a grocery situation). Social glue of 87 is earned — this is a small residential community where the MCG on game day is both asset and intrusion. You learn to live with the crowd that isn't yours.
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