By Cam Lucadou-Wells The first steps for the sell-off of Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre have formally started. City of Greater Dandenong will open public submissions on its desire to sell the 1000-square-metre block at 1-9 Walker Street, Dandenong. The public art and open space at the site’s northern side would be retained by the council. It makes way for a contemporary gallery housed in a refurbished ex-Masonic Lodge in nearby Mason Street. The council has provisionally dubbed the new venue ‘Dandenong New Art’. A ‘special committee’ of mayor Angela Long and councillors Jim Memeti and Bob Milkovic will hear and report on the public submissions.