There are plans to turn a 100-year-old abandoned and decaying coal-fired power station into a billion dollar shopping and apartment complex . Pigeons and bats made the buildings their home for three decades until $ 5 million was spent to stop them destroying industrial artefacts . 100 tonnes of droppings had to be removed from the old dance hall . The original boiler rooms and machinery have finally been preserved in the part-heritage listed site . Rumours that Google may relocate its offices to the site . Olympic swimmers in the One trained in the heated water flushed out of the station canal into the nearby bay during winter months .
There are plans to turn a 100-year-old abandoned and decaying coal-fired power station into a billion dollar shopping and apartment complex . Pigeons and bats made the buildings their home for three decades until $ 5 million was spent to stop them destroying industrial artefacts . 100 tonnes of droppings had to be removed from the old dance hall . The original boiler rooms and machinery have finally been preserved in the part-heritage listed site . Rumours that Google may relocate its offices to the site . Olympic swimmers in the 50s trained in the heated water flushed out of the station canal into the nearby bay during winter months .