Major Industrial Development Sites in Truganina Expected to Fetch $12 Million

RECEIVERS for the owners of a versatile 555-hectare Truganina property, the largest asset measured by area to hit the market last year, are selling down the property in smaller chunks.

After failing to sell for a total $100 million in separate campaigns in 2010, and 2011, four industrial development sites, each measuring about 42 hectares are now for sale, in a campaign being managed by Biggin Scott Commercial’s Andrew Egan and Frank Nagle.

Accessed via Hopkins Road, the blocks are expected to sell for about $3 million each.

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Truganina South Melbourne’s Newest Suburb

A NEW Melbourne suburb, 19 kilometres south-west of town, has been unveiled.

Truganina South will be developed on a 250 hectare block of land near Hoppers Crossing and in the council area of Wyndham which was recently identified as the country’s fastest growing.

Planning minister Matthew Guy (pictured, right) launched the suburb bound by Leakes, Palmers and Sayers roads, and, traveling west, farmland on the way to Derrimut Road.

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Goodman Group Signs Three Industrial Leases Totaling 84,000 Square Metres

GOODMAN Group has signed three major industrial leases totaling 84,000 square metres.

Transport company Wettenhalls has signed a five year lease for a 32,600 square metre facility at Laverton North, in Melbourne’s west. Wettenhalls is paying $60 per square metre to occupy the site within Goodman’s Wyndham Distribution Centre.

The space Wettenhall is moving into was previously occupied by Kmart, which is moving to a 76,700 square metre facility at Goodman’s Banfield Distribution Centre in Truganina, also in Melbourne’s west and not far from Laverton North.

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Another Victorian Caravan Park Offered as Residential Development Site

CHEAP holiday makers will need to cross another caravan park off their wish-list, soon.

The Bella Vista Holiday Park, in Rosebud West, on the Mornington Peninsula, has been listed for sale as a residential development site.

At 15 – 33 Truemans Road, and near the north-east corner of the waterfront Point Nepean Road, the 5689 square metre block is leased to the current operators until winter 2012.

It’s for private sale asking $4 million, plus GST. The selling agent is Paul Basso of Fruit Property in Tootgarook.

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UGB Changes Great For Truganina Sale Campaign

Truganina siteTHE timing of last week’s Urban Growth Boundary changes couldn’t have come at a better time for the syndicate of investors selling Melbourne’s biggest development site, measured by area.

The massive 555 hectare site at Truganina, in Melbourne’s west, is expected to sell for $100 million – after failing to sell for about that amount two years ago, at the start of the economic downturn, and before the site’s zoning future was confirmed.

“Under the rezoning the site will be a keystone property for the future development of Melbourne,” said CB Richard Ellis director Walter Occhiuto, who is selling the site with Tom Hayes, said.

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UGB Changes Great For Truganina Sale Campaign

Truganina siteTHE timing of last week’s Urban Growth Boundary changes couldn’t have come at a better time for the syndicate of investors selling Melbourne’s biggest development site, measured by area.

The massive 555 hectare site at Truganina, in Melbourne’s west, is expected to sell for $100 million – after failing to sell for about that amount two years ago, at the start of the economic downturn, and before the site’s zoning future was confirmed.

“Under the rezoning the site will be a keystone property for the future development of Melbourne,” said CB Richard Ellis director Walter Occhiuto, who is selling the site with Tom Hayes, said.

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555 Hectare Truganina Site, Melbourne, Relisted For Sale

MELBOURNE’s biggest residential development site, measured by area, was quietly relisted for sale this week.

After failing to sell last year, the private families that control a 555 hectare block of land at 65 – 453 Hopkins Street, in Truganina, are trying their luck in a more buoyant market.

The land is near the new Western Freeway extension (known during construction as the Deer Park Bypass), which opened last year, and marries into the Western Highway at the suburb border of Caroline Springs, Ravenhall and Rockbank.

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