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 DANCE academy Patrick Studios, which was formed in London, has leased 2300 square metres of space recently vacated by photographic studio, PMP. Patrick’s five year lease is for what will be studio space at 359 Plummer Street in Port Melbourne. It will relocate from a distinctive art deco building in Prahran’s Green Street, at the southern edge of Swinburne University campus and near the Chapel Street retail strip. Lemon Baxter’s Paul O’Sullivan is leasing the Plummer Street building with Knight Frank’s Ben Hackworthy and Chris Chartres. [...]
MELBOURNE’s next unique office – which will in this case be configured as a laboratory and classrooms – starts construction in Bundoora this month. La Trobe University’s $93 million La Trobe Institute of Molecular Science (LIMS) project will rise six levels from Science Road, at its Bundoora campus, about 17 kilometres north of town. The biotechnology and nanotechnology education facility is due for completion late next year. Queensland-based developer Watpac won the contract to construct the Lyons architect designed building. [...]
WESFARMERS owned retail giant, Coles Group, is expected to make about $100 million from the sale of a prominent Bourke Street retail complex in the Melbourne CBD. Coles will sell the 1982 Target Centre building (pictured, right) with a 20 year lease to Target. The complex also includes speciality retail stores, currently leased to Jetstar and Monash University. Coles is expected to spend funds raised from the sale into its supermarket operations. [...]
MELBOURNE’s next unique office – which will in this case be configured as a laboratory and classrooms – starts construction in Bundoora this month. La Trobe University’s $93 million La Trobe Institute of Molecular Science (LIMS) project will rise six levels from Science Road, at its Bundoora campus, about 17 kilometres north of town. The biotechnology and nanotechnology education facility is due for completion late next year. [...]
GIVEN the increasing number of apartment dwellers calling Melbourne’s inner north home, a “direct” trip between the Tullamarine and Eastern freeways – via the zoo and cemetery – can now consume motorist’s an hour, or more, largely because of amplified traffic congestion. But it would appear in government planning meetings, bottlenecks like that around Elliott Avenue, Macarthur Road and the University of Melbourne have received less consideration than other crisis-ridden road systems – like the ones in suburbs between Seaford and Mt Martha where the $759 million (and many say unnecessary) Peninsula Link was recently given the green light. Instead, the state government has appointed builder Australand to develop a major apartment compound at one of the inner-city’s last remaining vacant development sites, opposite the Melbourne General Cemetery, the University of Melbourne – and the busy roundabout that connects these two sites to Swanston Street. [...]
ELEVEN years after the University of Melbourne sold its former Early Childhood Development School campus to builders, the prominent Kew building finally looks set to be redeveloped. The Madden Street campus, in the suburb’s ritzy Studley Park precinct, has been sliced and diced and sold several times over the past decade. At one stage retirement village operator Primelife controlled the site, with plans to redevelop the main imposing existing brick building into a 98-unit aged care facility, Carrington Square. [...]
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