Docklands

ALMOST half of an unfinished Docklands office building will be offered for lease, after education service provider Global Campus Management – which agreed to lease space at 717 Bourke Street to accommodate fashion university ESMOD – went into voluntary administration last Thursday.
 
ESMOD was to have occupied 18,000 square metres of the distinctive 37,000 square metre building which will also be home to petroleum giant BP upon completion in July next year.
 
GCM is a minority shareholder in the Bourke Street building, on the south-west corner of Wurundjeri Way, which was developed by Babcock & Brown and architect Metier 3.

TRAMS are being tested, and public transport users have less than a week to wait for the opening a new route connecting Collins Street to Merchant Street, an inland retail strip and a major part of Melbourne’s $12 billion Docklands redevelopment.
 
Merchant Street will connect the global headquarters of National Australia Bank, on the shores of Victoria Harbour, to the $620 million headquarters of ANZ Banking Group, which is nearing completion, on the banks of the Yarra River.
 
More than 10,000 white collar employees will relocate to Docklands over the next year, Knight Frank leasing agent Mark Rasmussen said, including staff from BP Australia, Fairfax Media, Myer, the Victorian Building Commission and VicUrban.