South Australian Department of Health Leases Torrensville Office-Warehouse, Adelaide
SOUTH Australia’s Department of Health will pay $135,000 annual rent to occupy a 960 square metre office in Torrensville, two
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Bendigo’s Largest Ever Single Capital Works Project Complete
BENDIGO’s largest ever single capital works project opened on time and on budget late last month. The $14.9 million Edward
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Abigroup Wins Department of Defence Contract
LEND Lease arm Abigroup has won a major government contract.
Details of a media statement released today is below:
Abigroup has won a national Defence contract to prepare RAAF airbases around Australia to receive the air force’s next generation of fighter jets.
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Defence Housing Australia Spends $150 Million Amassing Adelaide Streets
DEFENCE Housing Australia has spent more than $150 million on some 500 houses in Adelaide’s northern suburbs.
The properties have been acquired since 2008 and are concentrated in housing developments near Edinburgh including Playford Alive, Blakes Crossing and around Gawler (train station pictured, right).
DHA has purchased an entire street in the Playford Alive development at Munno Para West.
Read moreATO to Anchor Massive Adelaide CBD Office Building
A NEW $200 million office building will be developed in Adelaide, after the Australian Taxation Office agreed to be anchor tenant.
The ATO, which also recently anchor tenanted a Melbourne building some say it didn’t need, will occupy 30,000 square metres of a building at Franklin Street, being developed by Western Australian based Aspen Group.
Aspen’s Tower 8 project will be bound by Waymouth, King William Flinders and Bentham streets, according to Adelaide Now, which announced the deal yesterday.
Read moreBovis Lend Lease Wins Sydney Water Capital Works Program Contract
Lend Lease Corporation Limited (“Lend Lease”) today announced its subsidiary, Bovis Lend Lease Pty Limited (“Bovis Lend Lease”), as part
Read moreVictorian Councils Added to the List of Carbon Tax Payers
DAYS before the federal labor government’s carbon tax is set to take effect, several Victorian councils have discovered they have been added to the list of some 500 companies set to pay.
The councils of Hume, Geelong, Wyndham and Bendigo have been included on the mystery list of polluters set to pay the tax. Several other councils in Victoria and around Australia are expected to be added in coming days.
Voters and the business community have criticised the hush-hush method the Labor government has decided to announce the polluters which will pay the tax.
Read moreBrisbane City Council Pays $16.5 Million For Sherwood Site
AS part of its plan to build a $90 million bus depot, the Brisbane City Council has paid $16.5 million
Read moreCouncils crying poor while hoarding hundreds
The Property Council of Australia has criticised advertisements by the Local Government Association of NSW and Shires Association of NSW calling on the NSW Government to delay reforms which would stop councils hoarding taxpayers’ money as a misguided attempt to preserve an unsustainable and unfair funding system.
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VicRoads lists prominent Craigieburn site
VicRoads has listed a 31.3 hectare mixed-use development site at what is presently Melbourne’s northern outskirts, but will soon be
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VACCHO Pays $4.45 Million For Collingwood Office
THE Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation Inc has paid $4.45 million for an office in Collingwood, in Melbourne’s inner
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Avenue of Honour Part-Demolition Starts Local Development Site Sell Off Around Bacchus Marsh
DEVELOPERS and land owners are rubbing their hands with excitement at the prospect of a roundabout being developed at the Avenue of Honour in Bacchus Marsh, north-west of Melbourne.
Large tracts of used and disused farmland in the pockets around the proposed new road – including around Hopetoun Park, Parwan and Pentland Hills – are expected to be redeveloped as housing estates in coming years.
Tenders closed for one such site this week: the massive 168 hectare Underbank Stud Farm.
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Victorian Government Boosts Property Grants Ahead of November Election
DESPITE evidence government grants unnecessarily inflate up real estate values, the Victorian State Government is using them again, as a carrot leading to the November 13 election.
Below is a statement about the initiative, by the HIA, which includes exact values about the new grants available.
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Southern Way Wins Controversial $759 Million Peninsula Link Freeway Contract
VICTORIAN Road minister Tim Pallas has named development consortium Southern Way will build th
e controversial Peninsula Link freeway.
The $759 million contract – for a freeway some say does not need to be built because there isn’t a population to support it – will stretch 27 kilometres from Carrum Downs, to Mt Martha, and includes 11 road connections, more than 35 bridges, 18,000 square metres of retaining wall and public art.
It is due for completion in early 2013.
Read moreMore Stamp Duty Relief Needed
Property industry groups and real estate agents were disappointed Tuesday’s State Budget didn’t bring cuts in Stamp Duty, particularly for first home buyers.
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Mornington Peninsula’s Arthurs Seat Chairlift Tourist Facility For Sale
PARKS Victoria is selling the rights to manage one of the Mornington Peninsula’s biggest, yet most ill-fated tourist attractions – the Arthurs Seat Chairlift.
Parks is looking for an operator to design, construct, run and maintain the new tourist hub – which would replace the existing 1960 facility, which shut in 2006 after a string of safety faults left holiday-makers injured, stranded, or both.
Up for grabs is a 950-metre chairlift path, and associated tracts of land at each end of the 305-metre summit, which previously supported a small thriving retail centre.
Apartment Owners and Developer Win Bid to Shift East Melbourne Border
RESIDENTS in Becton’s posh One East Melbourne glass tower have won a battle to have their suburb name changed.
At a meeting last week, the Melbourne City Council approved a recommendation to shift the East Melbourne suburb boundary west, to include apartments and an office between 227 – 293 Wellington Parade South, which would have previously been considered Melbourne, 3000, and arguably be worth a lot less.
VicUrban Announces Plans for $100 Million Office and Apartment Complex, Abutting Footscray Train Station
VICURBAN is proceeding with plans to build a major office building, and two apartment developments on a prominent, but disused 1.3 hectare block, abutting the Footscray train station, in Melbourne’s inner west.
The government’s sustainable land development arm is calling for submissions to develop three sites around McNab Avene, a former bowling green bound by the Footscray Market, Victoria University, and two train lines.
Government agencies, believed to be State Trustees and City West Water, will fully occupy the 15,000 square metre office, while the apartment towers, one of which could rise some 14-levels, will be a mix of traditional “own your own” units, student accommodation and affordable housing.
Melbourne City Council to Sell Surf Dive n’ Ski Store in Bourke Street
Melbourne City Council may have found a way to retire some of its ballooning debt, confirming this week it would put a prime Bourke Street shop and office building on the market.
Read moreDepartment of Treasury Joins Melbourne Water, ATO, in Search Of CBD Offices
THE Victorian government is looking for a 14,000 square metre office to house the Department of Treasury and Finance.
The CBD office leasing requirement is the latest in the string for the government, which has also in recent weeks also sought new offices for Melbourne Water (10,000 square metres) and the Australian Taxation Office (25,000 square metres).
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