Toppled plan leaves prime beachfront real estate vacant: What's next for Scarborough?

[WA Today]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, 23rd April, 2019 PM News Update [The vacant block on the corner of West Coast Highway and Scarborough Beach Road.]( [Toppled plan leaves prime beachfront real estate vacant: What's next for Scarborough?]( BY Lauren Pilat The future of the beachside lot earmarked for Perth's tallest skyscraper along the coast hangs in the balance as the site sits vacant months after demolition. --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- Top stories ['It's the fountain of youth': Palmyra's 'weeping' tree draws a crowd]( Palmyra residents are speaking of a modern day Easter miracle, after water unexpectedly started gushing out of a local verge tree on Good Friday. 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