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Hometown property developer Simon Chappel has won approval for his 18-storey retirement-living tower in the heart of Adelaide’s CBD.South Australia’s State Commission Assessment Panel approved the plans for the site that straddles two properties: a 1909sq m site at 154 Angas Street and a 205sq m site at 20 Gunson Street.&nbsp;Chappel set up Best Life Communities in October 2021 to explore the vertical land lease model to create more affordable retirement living options after selling his luxury retirement living village On Statenborough in Leabrook.The land lease model allows residents to buy the property and sell or bequeath it to family members without attracting stamp duties, taxes or fees.While this cuts costs, a vertical land lease model, where there is less land, allows residents to access and buy housing at an even cheaper rate.Chappel’s firm Angus and Gunson bought the sites for $6.75 million in April 2021.Corelogic property records showed Lefkas Pty Ltd as the former owner of both sites.&nbsp;<div id="Uq0fZ6Ng00Ez5ESUEpTtd"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/364GBPoXvePmrvRtvrPf9D/c4cfcaa30cfbf2951122320c844f06a8/adelaide_retirement_living_tower_story_mid.jpeg" alt="Simon Chappel's firm Angus and Gunson Pty Ltd applied for planning approval for a vertical land lease model for retirement living." data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/364GBPoXvePmrvRtvrPf9D/c4cfcaa30cfbf2951122320c844f06a8/adelaide_retirement_living_tower_story_mid.jpeg"></picture><div>▲ A render of the approved retirement living tower in Adelaide. </div></div>The plans were designed by Cheesman Architects and comprise an 18-storey tower with 155 residential units on levels four to 17.&nbsp;The ground floor will have commercial and community tenancies and there will be three levels of car parking.Though Angus and Gunson Pty Ltd was the applicant and owner of the site, Best Life Communities will operate the property once developed.Best Life Communities has a pipeline of more than 550 homes targeted at over-50s.&nbsp;It is currently selling 80 homes in the first stages of a project at Playford Waters, next to the Munno Para Shopping Centre, north of the city.The project will have a community centre, gym, library and activities room.It also has 320 homes at Victor Harbour, 85km south of Adelaide, on a former SA Water site and has started selling the first stage.

Adelaide property developer Simon Chappel has won approval for his 18-storey retirement living tower in the heart of Adelaide’s CBD.
South Australia’s State Commission Assessment Panel approved the plans on 14 September.


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The German association Club Tivoli-Deutscher Verein has lodged a second version of its plans for a mixed-use project on Dandenong Road in Melbourne’s Prahran.&nbsp;The club moved into its building, which include a popular restaurant, on the 3085sq m site at 291-295 Dandenong Road, in 1989.It is between the Frankston and Sandringham train lines and next to a major tramline to the Melbourne CBD.&nbsp;It initially filed plans by Plus Architecture for a six-storey, mixed-use project in 2020 that comprised restaurants and apartments.The City of Stonnington council refused the application, which had attracted&nbsp; community objections in relation to the height, lack of setbacks and concerns about increased traffic in the area.&nbsp;The club then appealed to VCAT, which also refused the application, stating that the main entrance and porte cochere had to be moved to the Dandenong Road frontage and the plans redesigned to reduce noise and other impacts on residential neighbours.VCAT, however, deemed the height of the building to be appropriate.The club’s management met with the council in December, 2021, and again in February and March this year to finalise a design for plans that aligned with VCAT’s suggested design changes. These plans were designed by Architecton.&nbsp;The project now has six storeys and three basement levels with a restaurant on the ground floor and a 366sq m restaurant on the rooftop, allowing the German Club to continue operating as a venue.&nbsp;<div id="27z06uy6YOs3Q57HFLtMX3"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/2N9WARYEy2tyWPZwpLSofi/6157694f5ca20c9271505557cf038b57/german_club_DA_story_mid.jpg" alt="The site is in a residential area right next to the major road Dandenong Road and a tram line running to the Melbourne CBD." data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/2N9WARYEy2tyWPZwpLSofi/6157694f5ca20c9271505557cf038b57/german_club_DA_story_mid.jpg"></picture><div>▲ The site is in a residential area next to Dandenong Road and a tramline running to the Melbourne CBD. </div></div><span style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">The project proposes 31 two-bedroom, five three-bedroom and 10 one-bedroom apartments for a total of 46 apartments.There will also be a total of 171 car parking spaces across the three basement levels for both residents and restaurant staff and patrons.&nbsp;As well as the ground-floor restaurant, that level would have three three-bedroom and two two-bedroom apartments while the<span style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">&nbsp;first floor will have three function spaces with a total of 594sq m of space as well as <span style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">two three-bedroom and three two-bedroom apartments, a green room and an administration office.The second floor will have an outdoor communal lounge with terraces, pool and an indoor lounge, in addition to 10 two-bedroom and five one-bedroom apartments.The third floor will have nine two-bedroom, two three-bedroom and three one-bedroom apartments; the fourth floor one three-bedroom, six two-bedroom and two one-bedroom apartments; and the fifth will have three two-bedroom apartments ias well as the restaurant.The club lodged the new plans on September 8. The council has indicated notification to the public will start soon.The Deutscher Turnverein Melbourne (German Gymnastic Club) was founded on May 1, 1860, making it one of the state’s oldest clubs. On May 1, 1921, it merged with the Klub Tivoli under the name Club Tivoli-Deutscher Verein Melbourne.Also in Prahan, <a data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/beulah-commercial-road-prahran-development-application" href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/beulah-commercial-road-prahran-development-application" target="_blank">Beulah lodged plans for a new mixed-use development </a>opposite the iconic Prahran Market in May.Beulah plans an eight-storey tower with residential, office and retail in the mix for the site—six adjoining addresses between 182-194 Commercial Road, on the corner of Izett Street— which it picked up late last year for $11.4 million from Stonebridge Property Group.

German association Club Tivoli Deutscher Verein has lodged a second version of its plans for a mixed-use project on Dandenong Road in Melbourne’s Prahran. 
The club has long had a restaurant at the 3085sq m site at 291-295 Dandenong Road between the Frankston and Sandringham train lines and right next to a major tram line to the Melbourne CBD. 


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The Voyager Resort has sold the building at Broadbeach’s Old Burleigh Road on the central Gold Coast to a private investor for $45 million.The listing and sale of the 2070sq m 60-unit property at 167 Old Burleigh Road came after four years of negotiating with about 3000 timeshare holders.The resort’s directors applied to the Supreme Court in 2021 for three statutory trustees to be appointed to handle the sale on the behalf of the timeshare holders after a survey carried out in 2019 showed that there was significant interest in selling the property.&nbsp;Adam and Tony Grbcic of Kollosche handled a five-week-long expressions of interest campaign that generated 155 enquiries and 25 cash offers.“About 80 per cent of the enquiry was local including a mix of high-net-worth investors looking for land-bank opportunities, developers wanting key sites for this property cycle or future cycles and hotel operators,” Adam Grbcic said.“There was heated competition for this site because it can’t be replaced.”The private investor who bought the property has not disclosed any plans.&nbsp;The property would cost $5 million to demolish and has a net holding income of $1 million a year if held permanently as short stay or rental accommodation.&nbsp;The net holding income would be higher and more lucrative if the property was managed as a hotel.&nbsp;<div id="6C2fbPpeGEcPOpcmjIwYt9"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/3wnER8PLWiEgecY39eWeQX/e913f3cb2c8bea0cf8c85ce72cee3269/vyagers_broadbeach_sold_mid.jpg" alt="The 60-unit Voyager Resort had over 3000 time share holders." data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/3wnER8PLWiEgecY39eWeQX/e913f3cb2c8bea0cf8c85ce72cee3269/vyagers_broadbeach_sold_mid.jpg"></picture><div>▲ The 60-unit Voyager Resort had more than 3000 timeshare holders. </div></div>Documents made public by The Voyager Resort company show that it intended to sell the property, divide the net proceeds of the sale between the timeshare owners according to independent valuation of the units they held and then wind up the company.The company would then distribute all other funds to its shareholders.&nbsp;Several timeshare holders on the company’s lists were delinquent or uncontactable, some for decades, owing tens of thousands in unpaid fees and contributions.&nbsp;The company in 2000 decided to establish a policy of buying back timeshares from holders no longer interested in participating in the scheme.It then held these shares until 2021 when legal advice stated that it could not hold shares in itself and proceeded to cancel them.Kollosche also recently sold the El Dorado boutique apartment block for $4.47 million.&nbsp;The 654sq m property at 173-175 Surf Parade in Broadbeach is 250m from the beach and has six units.&nbsp;It was bought by an interstate buyer after an expressions of interest campaign handled by John and Nicole Mayer of Kollosche New Projects with Kollosche Commercial.Around 107 enquiries were received during the campaign.&nbsp;The new owner has plans to use the building for short-stay accommodation.

The Voyager Resort has sold the building at Broadbeach’s Old Burleigh Road on the central Gold Coast to a private investor for $45 million.
The listing and sale of the 2070sq m 60-unit property at 167 Old Burleigh Road came after four years of negotiating with around 3000 timeshare holders.


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“We have to move away from the traditional office as a big filing cabinet for people.”So says Lendlease head of futures and environmental psychologist Natalie Slessor, who believes the future of the workplace may be very different to what’s expected.Lendlease partnered with Leesman to find out what workers wanted from workplaces in the post-pandemic landscape and&nbsp;Slessor said the research showed workplace flexibility was key.&nbsp;“Hybrid work is here to stay,” Slessor said.&nbsp;The typical office model will undergo a big change with developers and employers thinking differently about what workplaces look like.&nbsp;“We are thinking of workplaces rather than offices, and where that can happen apart from within an office—and how it can be supported,” Slessor said.&nbsp;“So, working from home but also near-home workplaces where people can work within suburbs and while they are not at home they do not need to commute.”She said workers remained interested in workplaces outside of their homes and with interaction with others.<div id="6wOwLgpbxcmt35IOTRMCW3"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/3WZkhr5Knp2PNTeuq32xma/bea93cd86564e6f9a3018ffcb3760f39/3.jpg" alt="Office vsummit mid 1" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/3WZkhr5Knp2PNTeuq32xma/bea93cd86564e6f9a3018ffcb3760f39/3.jpg"></picture><div>▲ Workers say that while working from home has its advantages, many miss the personal interaction of the office. </div></div>“We have been working online and in lockdown for so long, but there are soft things like workplace culture that people miss from not being in the office.”&nbsp;The research also showed a flight to quality with the expected move of workers to offices that had more amenity but Slessor also highlighted a “flight to humanity”.“Activated places and well-located—invigorated places stand out even further,” Slessor said.&nbsp;“People want to go to places where there are other people.”It also means developers and employers need to consider what makes workers feel genuinely welcome and supported in workplaces when designing them, with results showing that younger demographics are significantly less engaged with work and the workplace.“People want to see office spaces that are welcoming and that make them feel included—and that their needs, wants and values have been considered,” Slessor said.&nbsp;“Part of that is ensuring that the culture set is also inclusive and considerate. You can’t out-perk a bad boss.”The research found that younger people want to work at companies that were true to the values that preached and that older employees were coming on board these changing values.“There is greater transparency now,” Slessor said.“Generation Z and Generation Alpha have bigger networks and better skills—they can easily find out if a company is living up to its professed values.“They want to come work at a company that gives them opportunities to be part of social networks, to work on projects that contribute to the community and causes that align with their values.”&nbsp;<div id="CEJMTivYawfoyZEFDNG0o"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/2WtUD3fkUxnkVEC94uFgHa/f6fbcb1a06ecc45f12652ea52b796f1e/2.jpg" alt="Office amenity is important, but won’t make up for poor management or companies that ignore their workers." data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/2WtUD3fkUxnkVEC94uFgHa/f6fbcb1a06ecc45f12652ea52b796f1e/2.jpg"></picture><div>▲ Office amenity is important, but won’t make up for poor management or companies that ignore their workers. </div></div>Younger workers also come with an expectation that the workplace will function digitally and do so efficiently and effectively.&nbsp;“We have to realise that the office of the future is also going to be in the palm of your hand,” Slessor said. “The digital experience is going to be expected.”Slessor is one of the presenters at the coming <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-new-workplace-vsummit-tickets-409663262847?aff=tudwebsite0content0news2" data-mce-href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-new-workplace-vsummit-tickets-409663262847?aff=tudwebsite0content0news2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Urban Developer New Workplace vSummit </a>on Thursday, September 29.The vSummit will include <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-new-workplace-vsummit-tickets-409663262847?aff=tudwebsite0content0news2" data-mce-href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-new-workplace-vsummit-tickets-409663262847?aff=tudwebsite0content0news2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 10 industry experts delivering insightful presentations, case studies and panel discussions</a> delving into the latest research on Australia’s workplaces and their future.&nbsp;To register for the event, <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-new-workplace-vsummit-tickets-409663262847?aff=tudwebsite0content0news2" data-mce-href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-new-workplace-vsummit-tickets-409663262847?aff=tudwebsite0content0news2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">click here</a>.

Lendlease Head of Futures and environmental psychologist, Natalie Slessor has predicted that the future of the workplace may be very different to what people expect.

Lendlease partnered with Leesman on research to find out what workers wanted from workplaces post-pandemic.

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Developer Mohan Du’s Capital Alliance and international hotel group TFE Hotels will partner on a $340-milion Docklands hotel project in Melbourne.Two towers are planned for the 1420sq m site at 28-38 Pearl River Road. They will be the first purpose-built hotels for TFE’s A by Adina and Collection brands.An application for planning approval has been lodged. The project is aligned with the overall Waterfront Development Plan.The SJB-designed plans include Australia’s largest rooftop infinity pool and a 1000-person conference centre on a skybridge between the towers.&nbsp;The yet-to-be-named Collection brand hotel will have 200 rooms while the A by Adina component will have 105 apartments.<div id="6oIEDtbu4fSLgq0wX5EHHa"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/6UEpzXOnv5jUHf4kFosVwq/f8cff6741568a0d1f068deee361e5897/21578_View_04_Hero_Crop.jpg" alt="A render of the proposed hotel for Capital Alliance’s final Docklands site." data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/6UEpzXOnv5jUHf4kFosVwq/f8cff6741568a0d1f068deee361e5897/21578_View_04_Hero_Crop.jpg"></picture><div>▲ A render of the proposed hotel for Capital Alliance’s final Docklands site. </div></div>The project will also include a day spa, restaurants and retail outlets.&nbsp;The site is the last of Mohan Du’s eight parcels he has developed in the Docklands.“As the saying goes, you save the best for last and these one-of-a-kind hotels will be uniquely different to other accommodation offerings in Melbourne,” Du said.&nbsp;“I know when we welcome guests and the public in 2026, we’ll be able to proudly showcase the legacy we’ve left behind with tremendous pride.”TFE Hotels’ other properties under the Collection brand include The Calile in Brisbane, The Hotel Britomart in Auckland and a Surry Hills project currently in development in Sydney. Theare are A by Adina brand hotels in Sydney and Canberra.&nbsp;Capital Alliance most recently opened the <a data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/hotel-opens-doors-in-southbank" href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/hotel-opens-doors-in-southbank" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AC Hotel by Marriott in Melbourne’s Southbank</a>, the latest in the developer’s&nbsp;long history of Capital Alliance developing hotel properties in Melbourne.

The developer has now partnered with the hotel operator to deliver a mixed-use project at Docklands in Melbourne...

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A 180m tower in the heart of the Adelaide CBD, known as Dominator 1, has been approved by the State Commission Assessment Panel.JWDT Land, a joint venture between developers Jinwei and Datong, originally proposed as a 227m tower with 67 storeys when it bought the site in 2016.&nbsp;According to reports at the time, the Sydney-based developer paid $11.6 million for the 1910sq m site at 207-209 Pulteney Street where it crosses Flinders Street in Adelaide’s CBD.JWDT bought the land from Australian Datong Investment and Development.&nbsp;The site currently has a three-storey office building and open air car park occupied by JWDT.&nbsp;The Cox Architecture-designed plans for the site show a tower of 55 storeys including one basement and 11 podium levels.&nbsp;The project will comprise 330 one to four-bedroom apartments, 160 hotel rooms, three restaurants, bar and function areas and conference facilities.&nbsp;It will also include six penthouses and a sky lounge.&nbsp;<div id="5mvO7EOWfAvtdxyC5AQPOm"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/45sarqnKZV9RYR58wT73o1/8f1d7843732ff42fd4fc1103e0257eb7/2.jpg" alt="Freemasons Tower Adelaide" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/45sarqnKZV9RYR58wT73o1/8f1d7843732ff42fd4fc1103e0257eb7/2.jpg"></picture><div>▲ A concept render of the Dominator 1’s rival, the Freemasons Hall tower<span style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">.&nbsp; </div>There will be 277 car parking spaces and 356 bicycle storage spaces across one basement level, the ground floor and the first nine levels of the podium.&nbsp;Wind impacts mean that the rooms will not include balconies but 48 of the hotel rooms will have access to enclosed winter gardens.&nbsp;Adelaide Airport Ltd found that the height of the tower would enter airspace but has stated that it has no objection to the plans for the tower and that it would not obstruct airspace within the CBD. </div>The Dominator 1 was vying with another proposed tower be the tallest in the SA capital with plans for a 160m skyscraper to <a data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/office-heavy-hitters-raise-stakes-in-adelaide-cbd" href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/office-heavy-hitters-raise-stakes-in-adelaide-cbd" target="_blank">rise over the Freemasons Hall</a>.


JWDT’s 180-metre-tall tower in the heart of the Adelaide CBD, known as Dominator 1, has been approved by the State Commission Assessment Panel. 
JWDT Land, a joint venture between developers Jinwei and Datong, was originally proposed as a 227-metre-tall tower with 67 storeys when JWDT first purchased the site in 2016. 

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Rich-lister Sam Arnaout’s Iris Capital has bought hotelier and former Wallaby Bill Young’s Wisemans Inn Hotel on Sydney’s waterfront.The hotel sits on a 5100sq m site overlooking the Wisemans Ferry waterway on the Hawkesbury River north-west of Sydney.First built in 1827, the 195-year-old hotel has been held by Bill Young’s Young Hotels for nearly 20 years.&nbsp;Arnaout bought the pub in an off-market sale negotiated by HTL Property managing director Andrew Jolliffe and national director Dan Dragicevich.&nbsp;Arnaout has made a habit of regularly buying up hotels and pubs through his wholly owned company Iris Capital but has also interests in other sectors—his first commercial acquisition was the Lidcombe Post Office in 1998 which returned $2.5 million in its first year.&nbsp;Joliffe said the investor had a strategic approach.“Sam Arnaout’s Iris Capital has demonstrated a deliberate approach to augmenting a balance sheet which now includes significant residential tower developments, traditional and accommodation hotels, casinos and multiple agricultural investments,” Jolliffe said.<a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/iris-capital-set-2020-pub-record-with-45m-deal" data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/iris-capital-set-2020-pub-record-with-45m-deal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iris Capital currently owns and operates more than 24 hotel venues, </a>including Hotel Steyne and the Ivanhoe Hotel in Manly, and the Bourbon and Empire hotels in Potts Point.It also recently bought the 104-year old Strathfield Hotel in Sydney for $80 million and <a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/iris-capital-casino-canberra-aquisition-sam-arnaout" data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/iris-capital-casino-canberra-aquisition-sam-arnaout" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Casino Canberra for $63 million in July</a>.It also bought the casino in Alice Springs this year and then spent $75 million in total on three pubs and two accommodation venues in Alice Springs in July.<a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/heritage-listed-sydney-pub-goes-to-market" data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/heritage-listed-sydney-pub-goes-to-market" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Young Hotels has also just purchased the Bar Broadway Hotel in Chippendale for $37 million</a>. In May it sold Glebe’s Friend in Hand Hotel for $11 million as it moved to consolidate its hotel property portfolio.<div id="1ak9HsK8DBqPsDL46BqvT9"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/32P29jcEraTpd3ZVb3Evzv/bfee689b9f9646daa9a34f3a9695b393/iris_capital_story_mid.jpg" alt="The grounds at Wisemans Inn Hotel, now owned by Iris Capital after former Wallaby Bill Young sold it for $10 million." data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/32P29jcEraTpd3ZVb3Evzv/bfee689b9f9646daa9a34f3a9695b393/iris_capital_story_mid.jpg"></picture><div>▲ The grounds at Wisemans Inn Hotel, now owned by Iris Capital after former Wallaby Bill Young sold it for $10 million. </div></div>Dragevich said the hospitality market was on track to have an exceptional year in terms of sales volume.“Consolidated sales will comfortably exceed $2 billion nationally this calendar year and our assessment of the transaction based look through to December is prosperous for all industry stakeholders,” Dragicevich said.British convict Solomon Wiseman, who arrived in Australia in 1806 after nearly facing death for stealing, built the hotel after being pardoned in 1819 and being given a grant of 80ha of land. It eventually became the town of Wiseman’s Ferry.&nbsp;The Wisemans Inn Hotel contains part of Cobham Hall, Wiseman’s original family home, now a museum; 11 accommodation rooms and a bistro.

Rich-lister Sam Arnaout’s Iris Capital has bought hotelier and former Wallaby Bill Young’s Wisemans Inn Hotel on Sydney’s waterfront.
The hotel sits on a 5100sq m site overlooking the Wisemans Ferry waterway on the Hawkesbury River north-west of Sydney.


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Edge Visionary Living, a joint venture between local developers David Hillam and Gavin Hawkins, has filed plans for a luxury apartment project at Crawley near Perth’s University of Western Australia.The 1413sq m site at 168 Broadway is opposite the Steves Bar and Cafe and near JH Abraham Reserve, QEII Health Campus, Matilda Bay, King’s Park, Nedlands Yacht Club and the Nedlands Golf Club.Hillam Architects designed the plans for the project proposed for the waterfront site, which comprises a seven-storey building with 21 units, multi-purpose lounge, wellness garden, outdoor terrace, gym and sauna, and a quiet lounge and dining room.&nbsp;There will be two penthouses on the seventh floor, and four sub-penthouses on the fifth and sixth floors.The other floors will have a mix of two and three-bedroom apartments. The ground floor will also have eight carparking spaces with the basement level adding 39 spaces.&nbsp;The site currently has a three-storey apartment building completed in 1963, a one-storey building and a carport.<div id="2NwA70oGEaswUijK9eLR3L"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/47z3xpPHkP1UtTuXGF1sv5/36845597953516b610c0cbb7f86115a6/crawley_story_mid.jpg" alt="Edge Visionary Living's plans for the luxury apartment project at Crawley in Perth. " data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/47z3xpPHkP1UtTuXGF1sv5/36845597953516b610c0cbb7f86115a6/crawley_story_mid.jpg"></picture><div>▲ Edge Visionary Living’s plans for the luxury apartment project at Crawley in Perth. </div></div>The project, if approved, is scheduled for completion in 2024.The joint venture between Hillam and Hawkins is also behind such projects as Riviere Residences in Applecross, where three buildings up to 14 storeys are now under construction on a waterfront site.&nbsp;Other projects in the selling phase include a 115-unit, two-building project, The Dunes, at Scarborough on a coastal site overlooking Scarborough Beach and the Indian Ocean, and the Lumiere project at 74 Mill Point Road, South Perth.&nbsp;The Crawley plans are currently open for public comment.

Edge Visionary Living, David Hillam and Gavin Hawkins’ joint venture has filed plans for a luxury apartment project in Crawley near Perth’s University of Western Australia.
The 1413sq m site at Unit 1 - 18 on 168 Broadway at Crawley is opposite the well-known Steve’s Hotel and is also near the J H Abraham Reserve, the QEII Health Campus, Matilda Bay, King’s PArk, the Nedlands Yacht Club and the Nedlands Golf Club.


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The City of Perth has approved plans by the Humich Group for a 18-storey tower in the heart of the CBD.&nbsp;The $160-million plans by Hames Sharley will transform the site at 95-99 Barrack Street into a new arts and office hub.The first two floors will incorporate existing heritage buildings on the site and host a revamped 400-seat Liberty Theatre with dressing rooms and AV suites.The Perth International Jazz Festival has already been selected as the first event to celebrate the Liberty Theatre’s reopening.The first two floors will also have a new gallery space for the Flex Gallery along with workshops and studios for artists and a new hall as well two new laneways: Conor and Quinlan.&nbsp;There will also be retail on the first two floors with the remainder of the tower given over to office space with outdoor terraces and balconies.&nbsp;There will be four basement levels for carparking accessible from Barrack Street.&nbsp;<div id="2c099Kyx0IpkuEqYztzdrS"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/5jCSxq8OUXIF53cJMBFtPC/bdf7288c30515d71d9e337c707fca2b0/humich_group_approval_story_mid.jpg" alt="The City of Perth has approved Randall Humich's vision for an arts centre and office tower in the centre of the Perth CBD. " data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/5jCSxq8OUXIF53cJMBFtPC/bdf7288c30515d71d9e337c707fca2b0/humich_group_approval_story_mid.jpg"></picture><div>▲ The City of Perth has approved Randall Humich’s vision for an arts centre and office tower in the centre of the Perth CBD. </div></div>Development in the city of Perth has increased in recent years with the development of Yagan Square, the <a data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/singapore-hsh-buys-perth-hotel-for-rydges-return" href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/singapore-hsh-buys-perth-hotel-for-rydges-return" target="_blank">Rydges Hotel brand returning</a> to the city centre and<a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/forrest-humich-reveal-commercial-tower-plans-in-perth" data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/forrest-humich-reveal-commercial-tower-plans-in-perth" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Andrew Forrest buying the Carillion City Arcade site with plans to redevelop it. </a>It neighbours the Humich Group’s Barrack Street project.&nbsp;Forrest’s Carillion City Arcade project is expected to cost around $80 million including the cost of acquisition.Forrest has also made moves to <a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/twiggy-forrest-fiveight-reveals-residential-community-for-binningup-wa" data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/twiggy-forrest-fiveight-reveals-residential-community-for-binningup-wa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">develop property in Western Australia’s south-west</a>, to push ahead with<a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/andrew-forrest-s-indiana-teahouse-project-dodges-dismissal" data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/andrew-forrest-s-indiana-teahouse-project-dodges-dismissal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&nbsp;redevelopment plans for the Indiana Teahouse in Cottlesloe</a>, <a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/forrest-files-fremantle-hotel-plans" data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/forrest-files-fremantle-hotel-plans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a hotel in Fremantle</a> and to <a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/twiggy-forrest-buys-lizard-island-for-42m" data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/twiggy-forrest-buys-lizard-island-for-42m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">buy islands off Australia’s north-east coast</a>.&nbsp;Forrest’s company Fiveight also bought 190 St George’s Terrace in 2020 for $55 million.&nbsp;

The City of Perth council has approved the plans by Humich Group for a 18-storey tower in the heart of the CBD. 
The $160-million plans designed by Hames Sharley will see the site at 95-99 Barrack Street transformed into a new arts and office hub.


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Developer JWLand has planned the final hotel stage of the Northbourne Village project in Canberra’s inner-north.The site on Northbourne Avenue is between Embark, the first stage of the Northbourne Village project and the third stage of the project, which is now awaiting approval in the planning process.It is also bordered by Owen Crescent and is a short distance from Sullivans Creek.The 156-room hotel and serviced-apartments project will have nine storeys and JWLand hopes, approval pending, to complete it in 2025.&nbsp;The site is close to the heritage-listed Owen Flats and other heritage buildings, all of which will be retained along with several protected trees.&nbsp;Given the narrow width of the site and the protected trees, there will be no basement parking under the building for Stage 4.Instead, the parking for Stage 4 will be included in the basement parking levels under the buildings in Stage 3 of the Northbourne Village project.<div id="1tkjkXgfVu4lctz0MZHGAd"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/6ao3rBRblsttcg1vAkzOYJ/36b97771315852542b54a5ab7ddac0bb/JWLand_Northbourne_Village_Stage_4_story_mid.jpg" alt="The final hotel stage also backs onto Owen Crescent and is near Sullivans Creek." data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/6ao3rBRblsttcg1vAkzOYJ/36b97771315852542b54a5ab7ddac0bb/JWLand_Northbourne_Village_Stage_4_story_mid.jpg"></picture><div>▲ The final hotel stage also backs onto Owen Crescent and is near Sullivans Creek. </div></div>Stage 1, Embark, is already completed and Stage 2 is under construction.&nbsp;Stage 1 is a nine-storey 172-unit project with four commercial tenancies with an end value of $80 million.&nbsp;Stage 2 has 44 units in one multi-level five and six-storey building, and another 124 units in another nine-storey building.&nbsp;It has an end value of $95 million.&nbsp;It will also have 261 carparking spaces across three basement levels.Stage 3 will also have multi-level buildings, with the first one having 230 units across a multi-level six, eight and nine-storey building, and another 121 units in a second multi-level six and eight-storey building.Stage 3 has an end value of $200 million.The entire Northbourne project has a estimated end value of $300 million.Northbourne Avenue has seen a lot of development projects recently as the ACT government constructs the Northbourne Avenue light rail line.&nbsp;The ACT government has been releasing land in large tracts along the line as it is constructed, on occasion demolishing low-quality low-density social housing projects and relocating residents to make room for larger high-density developments.&nbsp;JWLand ACT development head Michael Prendergast said it meant that developers often followed where the government chose to release land.“At the scales of development that we do, which is precinct scales, the majority of the land that is released and is available for sale is sold by the ACT government,” Prendergast said.“So it’s either residual land being earmarked for future development or they were community or social housing at very low density so they demolish the housing, relocate the residents and they sell off these large parcels of land in auctions or expressions of interest processes.”<div id="2Yvf2ij2uLdchijd3hYmaE"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/3P11VtrQMJ0c4Z3c8pmCif/3276da585e376fa0029fa9facc728eec/Braddon_Place_mid_.jpg" alt="One of the hotels planned for JWLand's Braddon Place project along Canberra's Northbourne Avenue which will have 600 apartments and 239 hotel rooms. " data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/3P11VtrQMJ0c4Z3c8pmCif/3276da585e376fa0029fa9facc728eec/Braddon_Place_mid_.jpg"></picture><div>▲ One of the hotels planned for JWLand's Braddon Place project along Canberra’s Northbourne Avenue, which will have 600 apartments and 239 hotel rooms. </div></div>In addition to the Northbourne Village, <a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/jwland-500m-residential-hotel-braddon-northbourne-canberra" data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/jwland-500m-residential-hotel-braddon-northbourne-canberra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JWLand has spent $28 million on another site along Northbourne Avenue</a> with plans awaiting approval for a residential precinct with an estimated end value of $500 million.Braddon Place will have 600 apartments, 239 hotel rooms and 908 carparking spaces across six buildings.<a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/canberra-build-to-rent-evri-group" data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/canberra-build-to-rent-evri-group" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Evri Group has filed plans for another residential precinct</a>, tipped to have an estimated end value of $150 million with 447 units nearby.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/art-group-files-plans-for-aud200m-canberra-precinct" data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/art-group-files-plans-for-aud200m-canberra-precinct" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johnny Roso’s Art Group has also filed plans for a residential precinct</a> with 424 units and an end value of more than $200 million at the corner of Macarthur Avenue and Northbourne Avenue.

Developer JWLand has planned the final hotel stage of the Northbourne Village project in Canberra’s inner-north. 
The site on Northbourne Avenue is between Embark, the first stage of the Northbourne Village project and the third stage of the project which is currently awaiting approval in the planning process.
