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SEEK and you will find... a new Cremorne headquarters

Tue, 22/08/2017 - 12:00 Mark Baljak
Architecture practice HASSELL is heading design efforts for a new office development with an end value of $163 million that will see job search firm SEEK take root within Cremorne. The atypically shaped campus-style building was lodged with City of Yarra earlier this month, nominating a large land parcel at 60-88 Cremorne Street as SEEK's new headquarters. Arthur Land Pty Ltd is the listed land owner and applicant within planning documents,...

The case for West Gate Tunnel looking wobbly in light of Port Rail shuttle return

Tue, 22/08/2017 - 00:00 Alastair Taylor
Comment It was looking flakey already but now with the announcement over the weekend that the on-again, off-again rail port shuttles are back on the agenda, the West Gate Tunnel project has gone beyond barely scraping through the sniff test to stinking to high heaven. The West Gate Tunnel Project was a market-led proposal from Transurban that would see new segmented lanes on the West Gate Freeway from the Western Ring Road interchange leading...

The 20-minute city, associated health benefits and expanding middle Melbourne

Mon, 21/08/2017 - 12:00 Mark Baljak
The notion of Melbourne becoming a 20-minute City has been explored heavily in recent times. Seeking to provide Melburnians with the ability to 'live locally', the 20-minute City, in essence, strives to provide people with the ability to meet most of their everyday needs within a 20-minute walk, cycle or local public transport trip of their home. Plan Melbourne's push toward the 20-minute City would also have immense repercussions for the...

A problem South Melbourne site looks for new life

Mon, 21/08/2017 - 00:00 Mark Baljak
Considering the sheer volume of apartment projects Melbourne has absorbed over recent years, the rate of stalled projects is comparatively minuscule. Very few apartment projects that launched their respective sales campaigns over the last five years failed to progress to construction. One of the more notable projects though was 100 Park Street; the South Melbourne project straddling the busy Kings Way and Park Street intersection had over recent...

Real Time Market Data: Property Utopia For Buyers & Sellers

Fri, 18/08/2017 - 09:00 Cameron Clarke
The development industry inhales information and produces relentless analysis on both the buying and selling side in order to find the elusive utopian deal based on research. Research is reactive; why base your largest lifetime purchase or your company balance sheet on what happened down the road six months ago? Increasingly purchasers are more informed than the consultants providing the information, and the purchaser feedback is not always...

Carr's Hoddle Street Development finds favour with Council

Thu, 17/08/2017 - 12:00 Laurence Dragomir
The City of Melbourne's Future (Planning) Committee this week resolved to issue conditional approval for a 10-storey building at 1071-1081 Hoddle Street in East Melbourne. The building would rise to a height of 31.54m and accommodate 26 apartments on a triangular shaped site with a total area of 311 sqm. The railway cutting for the Hurstbridge and South Morang lines abuts the rear of the site and a council lane stretches along the southern...

Southbank's densest block to become even denser?

Thu, 17/08/2017 - 07:15 Laurence Dragomir
CBRE in recent weeks has begun marketing a development site at 118 City Road in Southbank which has been branded as 'Flagship'. The 6,191sqm site is currently home to a BMW dealership and showroom, and has significant potential to add to what is set to become on of the densest city blocks in Melbourne, boasting towers of 200m through to over 300m. The site is located close ro both the 297m Eureka Tower and the under construction 319m Australia...

This is how regional rail can help ease our big cities' commuter crush

Wed, 16/08/2017 - 12:00 The Conversation
Michael Buxton , RMIT University In Sydney and Melbourne, the squeeze is on. Population is booming; house prices are still rising; roads and trains are congested. Australian governments generally have ignored the benefits of relating metropolitan and regional planning. However, some state governments are now investigating more integrated sectoral and spatial planning strategies, initially through shifting public sector jobs to regional centres...

City of Yarra runs hot with another significant commercial development planned

Wed, 16/08/2017 - 07:00 Mark Baljak
The changing built form landscape within City of Yarra may well be nudged once more down the commercial path as plans are assessed for a sizebale development of the Kia/Patersons site at 198-242 Burnley Street, Richmond. Council is deliberating over a plan which would create four separate office buildings that would hold an accumulated GFA of approximately 40,000sqm and support 800-1000 full time jobs. On behalf of Burnley Developments Pty Ltd,...

West Melbourne's destination development begins construction

Tue, 15/08/2017 - 12:00 Mark Baljak
Well into its demolition programme, Trenerry Property's West End will begin construction next month. Builder Hamilton Marino has been chosen to deliver the project which toward the end of 2019 will see the former industrial site transformed into a mixed-use 'destination' development for West Melbourne. Billed as a 'destination' development that is expected to draw in surrounding workers and residents, a sweep through the Urban Melbourne Project...

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    On the right track: Ormond Place gets the green light
    Friday, September 22, 2017 - 07:00
    The development of a 13-storey apartment building as part of a larger site development at Ormond Station to be called Ormond Place can proceed following approval from Planning Minister Richard Wynne.
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    Toorak Park delivers where it matters most
    Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - 00:00
    Toorak Park is the outcome of a decade of development overtones for an expansive and formerly underutilised site abutting Toorak Station. Few projects across Melbourne are larger in terms of site size, with developer Lendlease over recent months applying the finishing touches to 446 apartments and 18 townhouses across a host of buildings.
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    Visual Melbourne

    Docklands Places and Spaces, part four: Batmans Hill and Stadium
    Friday, August 25, 2017 - 07:00
    The former site of John Batman's home, Batman's Hill is entering the final stages of its redevelopment. Collins Square's final tower has begun its skyward ascent, as has Lendlease's Melbourne Quarter Commercial and Residential precinct already. Melbourne Quarter's first stage is at construction and involves a new 12-storey home for consultancy firm Arup along with a skypark.
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    Transport & Design

    Rebecca Walk's long awaited transformation set to finally get underway?
    Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 12:00
    First mooted early last year, the long awaited facelift to Rebecca Walk looks set to proceed following a call out for "40 energetic street food traders" back in January of this year and planning approvals. New plans were conceived for the largely empty row of pods which occupy the under croft of the Flinders St Viaduct adjacent to Batman Park on the CBD's Northbank.
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    Sustainability & Environment

    John Armsby discusses the merits of Richmond's award-winning Green Edge apartment development
    Monday, September 4, 2017 - 12:00
    The recent BDAV Building Design Awards once more showcased the talents and expertise of Victoria's building designers. 2017 was the 22nd year of the BDAV Design Awards, which aims to "profile excellence in building design, as well as profiling the importance of the building design profession to both the building industry and to the broader community." One project that ticked the boxes was Green Edge.
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