THE Yarra City Council has approved the $400 million redevelopment of Channel Nine’s long-time Bendigo Street studios, in Melbourne’s inner east. [...]
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 SYDNEY based developer has opened its Stockland Highlands Shopping Centre in the outer northern Melbourne suburb of Craigieburn. A copy of Stockland’s announcement re: the opening is below: November 23: Craigieburn residents will benefit from a convenient new neighbourhood shopping experience, following the opening of the Stockland Highlands Shopping Centre on Thursday 17 November 2011. [...]  THE new owners of a disused city college near the Queen Victoria Market in the Melbourne CBD have lodged an application which would more than doubles the size of a proposed apartment tower approved by council just four months ago. If permitted, the former Carrick Education College, on a battle-axe shaped site at 48 – 50 A’Beckett Street could make way for a 39-level tower rising 121 metres, and distinguished by a 40-metre podium at street level. The new proposal would replace a permit issued in April by the City of Melbourne to redevelop the 723 square metre block into an 18-level apartment building rising 60 metres. This permit was issued after council rejected another application, lodged in November 2010 and for a 45-level tower, based on height and setback. [...]  CONSTRUCTION of a contentious Camberwell apartment project dubbed by locals as “Melbourne’s ugliest tower” is now not likely to start until at least next year. State government agency VicTrack, with private developer Tenterfield, spent ten years pushing through a $100 million mixed used village, The Place, to replace land atop the Camberwell train station, east of Burke Road. The Place was approved by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal last April – just seven months before the controversial state government planning policy it relied on, Melbourne 2030, was shredded by the new Baillieu government. [...]  MELBOURNE’s Southern Cross rail station (pictured) – formerly known as the Spencer Street Station – could get a $2 billion upgrade, as part of plans to build a high-speed rail link to Sydney. The rail tunnel, proposed within a federal government study last week, could cost between $61 billion and $108 billion. The trip between Australia’s two most populated cities could take three hours, with the train reaching speeds of 350 km/h (outside of the capitals, where they’ll travel about 200 km/h). This compares to about an hour, by plane, or about nine hours by road. [...]  A SUPERSIZED North Melbourne development site, opposite two small parks and capable of accommodating a landmark skyscraper, has hit the market and is expected to sell for about $8 million. The 3555 square metre property at 181 – 189 Capel Street (aerial image, right) currently includes a large warehouse constructed in the 1960s and which is tenanted by AAMI as an insurance assessment centre. An adjoining small warehouse is occupied by another tenant. Combined the assets return $528,634 in annual rent but AAMI will vacate soon. [...]  MELBOURNE-born retail giant JB Hi Fi is staring down progress, in Keilor East. This month, the electrical and media retail chain, which is now ASX-listed, vacated the Centreway store (pictured, right) which the company’s founder, John Barbuto, opened as the first JB Hi Fi in 1974. Barbuto sold his business in 1983 to a consortium, which by the end of the century had opened nine more JB Hi Fi outlets across Melbourne. [...]  ANOTHER prominent development site has been listed for sale in Melbourne’s east. This time, at the south-west corner of Jells and Ferntree Gully roads, in Wheelers Hill (aerial of the site, right), Ammache Architects is selling an 8106 square metre block with plans and permits for a four-level, 131-unit apartment complex. Ammache paid $4.3 million for the Wheeleres Hill site in August 2009, but is said to be seeking about $10 million for the block now. [...] 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. [...] |
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