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 A SLITHER of land behind one of Southbank’s oldest and grandest buildings – the former JH Boyd Girls’ High School - will make way for a major skyscraper, set to become a landmark near the busy intersection where the West Gate Freeway merges with Kings Way.
The City of Melbourne will ask private developers to build a 30-level tower filled with apartments, offices and shops, at the rear of a school site it acquired for $10.5 million in 2005.
Bound by City Road, Kings Way, Kavanagh and Balston streets, the balance of the property will be redeveloped as a cultural and community hub to service Southbank’s growing population, and evolving ethos.
Two parks – one measuring 1000 square metres, and another of 2500 square metres will also be developed on the site over the next four years.
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HAVING opened the Stockland Tooronga Shopping Centre in Glen Iris on Thursday, Sydney-based developer Stockland has bought forward plans to build a $40 million, 7087 square metre complex in Melbourne’s outer north.
THE Office of Housing has paid close to $4 million for a disused aged care facility in Box Hill.