MAB Plans $60 Million Business Park to Replace West Gate Collection Point, Port Melbourne

MAB Corporation plans to build a $60 million business park at a prominent Port Melbourne site it bought last month from the redundant Brumby government (highlighted, red, right).

The St Kilda Road based private developer, which at one stage was linked to buying Doncaster’s massive Eastern Golf Course, says it expects to lodge redevelopment plans for its new Cook Street site by the middle of this month. The Port Melbourne property is due to settle on January 7, 2011.

MAB commercial and industrial general manager Richard Johnston said the former Vicroads toll collection facility for the West Gate Bridge has a 500 metre frontage to the West Gate Freeway, and passing traffic of some 160,000 vehicles a day.

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