Tripodina Family Plots Double Bay Cosmetic Surgery Centre

The Tripodina family is moving from produce to plastic surgery with a four-storey, high-end medical centre planned for a blue-ribbon Sydney suburb.

The development planned for Double Bay at cost of $10 million, the Double Bay Cosmetic Centre, is the latest proposal for the high-performing private medical sector in the Harbour City.

Globally, demand for so-called medical aesthetics is expected to grow as much as 14 per cent in the next two years thanks to social media, according to McKinsey & Company research.

Flemington fruit and vegetable mogul Santo Peter Tripodina, who owns the Tristate Produce wholesale company that operates from Sydney Markets, owns the three properties at 4, 6 and 8 Manning Road, Double Bay.

Tripodina picked up the combined 587sq m site in September, 2022 and the family trust has filed an application with the Woollahra Municipal Council.

The plans by architects Orosi show the Double Bay Cosmetic Centre at a corner block at Kiaora Lane above three levels of basement parking. 

There would be treatment rooms, operation theaters, consultant and procedure rooms.

Orosi are also the project developers—chief executive Hamid Samavi said the medical centre would continue their strategy to diversify after it filed plans for with a mixed-use project on a 3000sq m block overlooking a Sydney golf club at Rose Bay last year.

Before these latest schemes,  the company predominantly developed residential projects in sought-after Sydney suburbs.

▲ The design by Orosi shows landscaping on the lower levels as well as a roof-top garden.

The Double Bay Cosmetic Centre would operate as a day surgery with 30 patients a day. 

“The proposed development will provide a high-quality medical development that is of a scale, form and design that sits comfortably within the streetscape,” the report by Planning Ingenuity said.

“The siting of the medical centre provides an ideal transition from the higher intensity commercial uses in the Double Bay centre towards the lower intensity residential uses surrounding Double Bay.”

Experts predict commercial residential and medical would be the planning projects to watch this year, driven by demand for both.