End of the Road For Naval and Military Club Building
IT MUST be with a great deal of despondency former members of the recently defunct Naval & Military Club “keep under surveillance” what is happening at their former headquarters, at 27 Little Collins Street, Melbourne.
The mission-brown building was sold by receivers to Chinese developers during the economic downturn, and after a series of legal disputes prevented the NMC organising a joint venture partner to redevelop the site into a club room, hotel and apartment tower.
NMC’s proposed redevelopment was expected to save its future – and indeed give it an income stream which could have allowed it to grow.
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