An ambitious project to build high-end shops, offices and apartments in the Gungahlin town centre would deliver on a three-decade-old vision for the precinct set to house an extra 10,000 people in the next decade, its developer says.

Englobo has unveiled plans for an entertainment and lifestyle precinct in the last of six key Gungahlin town centre blocks, which were imagined in 1995 as mixed-use anchors in the first town centre developed after the ACT was granted self-government.

The Gungahlin 2030 project includes a public square on Hinder Street, a market hall and shopping precinct, and a premium hotel with a rooftop bar and views across Canberra's north.

Englobo director John Susa said the project had built on years of Gungahlin town centre studies to put forward a proposal that ha

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