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 IT’S not just developers pushing Melbourne’s planning limits. Entrepreneurs who earn their living outside of real estate are also dreaming up the city’s next landmark towers – cashing in on Melbourne’s trifecta of a booming population, the need to create construction jobs and a so-called collapse in housing affordability. This time, at 36 – 40 La Trobe Street, lawyer and migration agent Konfir Kabo is proposing to demolish the historic low-rise GMK House building and replace it with one of Melbourne’s skinniest residential skyscrapers. [...]
THE new owners of a prominent car yard near the busy Kew Junction (pictured, right) have wasted no time speeding through a new high-density proposal. After selling to developers in late 2009, the 118 – 120 High Street site, which has been for years occupied by Q-Cars, will make way for a 12-level, 46 unit apartment tower with ground floor shops and 36 car park bays. The Rothelowman designed tower – Clara Q – will be the Kew Junction’s tallest building, and will make the suburb easier to identify from other elevated parts of Melbourne with an eastern suburb outlook. [...]
THE new owners of a prominent car yard near the busy Kew Junction (pictured, right) have wasted no time speeding through a new high-density proposal. After selling to developers in late 2009, the 118 – 120 High Street site, which has been for years occupied by Q-Cars, will make way for a 12-level, 46 unit apartment tower with ground floor shops and 36 car park bays. The Rothelowman designed tower – Clara Q – will be the Kew Junction’s tallest building, and will make the suburb easier to identify from other elevated parts of Melbourne with an eastern suburb outlook. [...]
THE new owners of a prominent car yard near the busy Kew Junction (pictured, right) have wasted no time speeding through a new high-density proposal. After selling to developers in late 2009, the 118 – 120 High Street site, which has been for years occupied by Q-Cars, will make way for a 12-level, 46 unit apartment tower with ground floor shops and 36 car park bays. The Rothelowman designed tower – Clara Q – will be the Kew Junction’s tallest building, and will make the suburb easier to identify from other elevated parts of Melbourne with an eastern suburb outlook. [...]
THE new owners of a prominent car yard near the busy Kew Junction (pictured, right) have wasted no time speeding through a new high-density proposal. After selling to developers in late 2009, the 118 – 120 High Street site, which has been for years occupied by Q-Cars, will make way for a 12-level, 46 unit apartment tower with ground floor shops and 36 car park bays. The Rothelowman designed tower – Clara Q – will be the Kew Junction’s tallest building, and will make the suburb easier to identify from other elevated parts of Melbourne with an eastern suburb outlook. [...]
 TWO disused bowling alleys, north and south of the Yarra River, give an indication of how fast planning attitudes have reformed, as architects, developers and planners maximised the former government’s redundant Melbourne @ 5 Million planning strategy. In Mentone, some 21 kilometres south of the CBD, council has just rejected plans to replace the Mentone Bowl site with a 170-unit residential village topped by two towers of eight and 12 levels. [...]
THE Police Association has snaffled a reported $2 million from the sale of a 46.5 hectare block of land abutting the outer north-eastern township of Coldstream. The site (pictured, right), which was marketed throughout the summer by agency RT Edgar as “The Police Block”, is currently used for grazing – but is said to have attracted interest from developers, and land bankers, being on the edge of the Urban Growth Boundary. Melbourne’s UGB – a controversial invisible line dividing where builders can and can’t develop – was revised several times by the previous state government, much to the delight of developers who bought land cheap, outside the zone gambling when the government would run out of room to zone as housing, and need them. [...]
IT’S bad enough if the site next-door to the one you just bought gets listed for sale, targeting developers. It’s worse when you just spent $21 million of taxpayer money, and if the redevelopment next door robs the million dollar views you planned to exploit in your own marketing. Sadly this is what’s happening on the Footscray waterfront right now. [...]
MELBOURNE’s next major shopping centre will be developed in Brunswick East, after a prominent 1.9 hectare factory, formerly occupied by Tontine Pillows, sold to developers. The site at 127 – 137 Nicholson Street was listed by receivers for the Letten Group of companies, and sold to the Melbourne-based Banco Group, a representative of which was unavailable for comment. Banco is believed to have paid $15 million for the huge Brunswick East site, which also has frontage to John, Gamble and Rickard streets, offering flexible and mixed-use redevelopment approval. Any sale to Banco would follow a $20 million purchase of the Footscray Plaza shopping centre in February. [...]
IT IS out with the old and in with the new at an increasing number of council planning meetings – with another site once earmarked to become a retirement village winding up in the hands of residential developers, which have had reconfigured projects approved. This time, near the Phillip Island retail township of Cowes, AMP Capital Investors has sold out of a $40 million aged-care based village it earmarked for 26 hectares of former farmland on Ventnor Road. The new owner, a residential developer is now proposing a standard “house-and-land package” based redevelopment, Whyte Sands. Greg Price of selling agency Alex Scott says the reinvented project will yield about 300 lots and be developed over four years. [...]
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