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.

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Lend Lease, Frank Hargrave, to Develop Major Residential Village on SKM Site, Overlooking Toorak Park

Toorak Park, ArmadaleLEND Lease will team with the founder and former CEO of Skilled Engineering, Frank Hargrave AO, to develop a major residential village abutting Toorak Park, in Melbourne’s ritzy south-eastern suburb of Armadale.
 
Lend Lease confirmed it entered a joint venture to redevelop the 2.5 hectare office site at 590 Orrong Road with Mr Hargrave’s Larkfield Holdings Pty Ltd, the owner of the land.
 
The site is bordered by Orrong Road, Osment Street and the northern boundaries of Victory Square Reserve and Toorak Park. It abuts the Toorak train station to the east, and a pedestrian bridge to the small Beatty Avenue retail strip.

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VCAT Approves 38-Level Apartment Tower in South Yarra

MELBOURNE’S tallest apartment building outside of the inner-city will be developed on the site of a rundown hamburger restaurant at the north-west corner of Toorak Road and Chapel Street in South Yarra.
 
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has approved The Capitol South Yarra, a $150 million mixed-use village, which will be identified by a 38-level tower soaring 133 metres.
 
The art deco Capitol Bakeries building will be demolished to make way for a multi-level, 4,000 square metre shopping centre, a 6-level 7,500 square metre office building, and 38-level luxury apartment tower.

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