Self-Storage, Unit Plans Filed for ‘Outperforming’ Alexandria

Two projects have been filed for sites in one of Sydney’s Top 100 suburbs—Alexandria.

Tipped as a major growth area by realestate.com.au this year, it is one of 100 suburbs predicted to outperform in the subsequent 12 months.

Plans for a seven-storey mixed-use development from a new market entrant for the suburb, 5.6km south of the Sydney CBD, are now before the City of Sydney.

The development planned for the site at 9-13 Bourke Road would comprise six levels of self-storage units and ancillary offices, plus standalone rentable office space and two retail tenancies, as well as have wine storage facilities.

If approved, it would deliver 7466sq m of gross floor area.

The $17-million project has been proposed by Storhub Group, a Singaporean company that entered the Australian market this year, backed by a $300-million equity commitment. 

The proposed development was subject to a Competitive Design Alternatives Process.

▲ A render of Storhub’s Alexandria proposal. The company also has a facility at Rouse Hill, and plans for more in Victoria and Queensland.

Also in the suburb, Blueshore Development Group has plans before the city for a six-storey slender apartment block [pictured, at top], comprising five three-bedroom apartments with a total GFA of 611.6 square metres.

Each would be single-floor units with a ground-level terrace-style unit and an upper dual-aspect apartment part of the plans. 

The top floor apartment would have private rooftop access while the remaining apartments would have access to shared space at the western end of the rooftop.

The plans by Ethos Urban which were designed by Studio SC (formerly Scott Carver Architects) would transform the vacant site at 158 Wyndham Street, 120m from the Waterloo Metro Station.

It is in the Botany Road Precinct, which was rezoned by the city via a council-led planning proposal in June, 2022 to incentivise new commercial and affordable rental housing developments, and is “envisioned to develop into a vibrant mixed-use and commercial precinct”. 

A 23-apartment project was approved for the site in 2015 after a trip to the Land and Environment Court and buildings on the site demolished, but it went no further.

Blueshore has also filed an application for an adjacent site, proposing a $30-million commercial development, which is under assessment. 

Alexandria has attracted considerable developer interest this year, with plans for a mixed-use project on Doody Street, and 86-unit build-to-rent project lodged in recent months, as well as a City West affordable homes development.