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<p>Chinese developer Holder East has set its sights on Melbourne suburb Box Hill, filing plans for a 13-storey office tower.</p><p>The developer has proposed the building for the 662sq m site at 701 Station Street in Box Hill.</p><p>Fender Katsalidis designed the plans, which includes office space on the first to 12th floors, and retail spaces on the ground floor.</p><p>Also planned are two basement levels with end-of-trip facilities, bicycle storage and car parking.</p><p>The first basement level would have 13 car parking spaces while the second basement level would have bicycle storage for 40 bicycles, six car parking spaces including one accessible space, and the end-of-trip facilities.</p><p>A bus stop is opposite the site with a tram stop and the Box Hill Train Station further down Station Street at the crossing with Whitehorse Road.</p><p>Gross floor area for the building is 8204sq m with 4659sq m of net lettable area for office space and 178sq m for the two retail tenancies on the ground floor.</p><p>The development cost for the project is estimated at $30 million, according to the City of Whitehorse’s records.<br></p><div id="2gibz17WwANJmLXVBFR9Rr"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/1BoloOj8Vhrk3vtvwvy8Je/56c26e08d46665074fcd1cb12927559d/box_hill_holder_east_story_mid.jpg" alt="The project will have twelve floors of office space with two retail tenancies on the ground floor." data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/1BoloOj8Vhrk3vtvwvy8Je/56c26e08d46665074fcd1cb12927559d/box_hill_holder_east_story_mid.jpg"></picture><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ A render of the tower proposed for the Box Hill site.<br></span></div><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;"><br></span></div></div><p>Holder East BH Pty Ltd is listed as the client on application documents submitted to the council.</p><p>ASIC records list Tu Lu, Debin Lu and Rui Grace Guan as the directors of Holder East BH.</p><p>All three are also the directors of Holder East Pty Ltd, which is listed as the sole shareholder of Holder East BH. A British Virgin Islands-based company Holder East Capital Ltd is listed in ASIC records as the sole shareholder for Holder East Pty Ltd.</p><p>The company has other projects in Melbourne <a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/501-king-street-melbourne-development-construction-approval-mixed-use-project" data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/501-king-street-melbourne-development-construction-approval-mixed-use-project" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including a mixed-use project that was appoved for</a> King Street, West Melbourne in November, 2022.</p><p>Recent projects planned for Box Hill, 14km east of the Melbourne CBD, include <a data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/wembley-hill-box-hill-south-golden-age-melbourne" href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/wembley-hill-box-hill-south-golden-age-melbourne" target="_blank">Golden Age Group’s residential project</a> in Box Hill South for 147 hourse on a 50,116sq m site at 15-31 Hay Street, filed in February.</p><p>Golden Age is a prolific developer in the Box Hill area.</p>

With more developers keen in the growing suburb of Box Hill, developer Holder East has filed plans for a 13-storey mixed-use tower…


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<p>Two Sydney councils have teamed up to launch a major precinct masterplan for Leppington Town Centre with the aim of developing a “30-minute city”.&nbsp;</p><p>The Liverpool and Camden councils have collaborated on the ambitious masterplan for the town centre, which aims to deliver 10,500 homes by 2041.</p><p>The precinct is now under assessment with the NSW Department for Planning and Environment.&nbsp;</p><p>The 440ha site within the South West Growth Area of Sydney spans the two local government authorities but has “been slow to develop to date”.&nbsp;</p><p>This was due to fragmented land ownership and a perceived “lack of a lead developer to establish a town centre”, reports by the councils said.</p><p>The Leppington Town Centre Review Planning Proposal was endorsed by Liverpool Council in October before being discussed at Camden in November ahead of being filed with the department this year.</p><p>Leppington is largely an employment-zoned area, focusing on business and industrial parks, with pockets of medium-density residential.</p><p>The rezoning masterplan will turn it into a highly integrated mixed-use Strategic Centre Core, according to the councils, helping to facilitate the growth of residential living and the provision of cultural and recreational facilities.&nbsp;</p><p>In addition to the residential component, 156,000sq m of retail space, and 142,000sq m of commercial, health, community and education floor space are included in the plans.</p><p>The area’s employment focus will be retained with 160,000sq m of commercial and industrial enterprise floor space included in the masterplan.&nbsp;</p><p>The councils want to adopt a “density pyramid” approach with the highest densities, of up to 28-stroreys, concentrated around the core at Leppington Station.&nbsp;</p><p>Medium to high densities are allocated for the 800m walking catchment at the periphery, and medium densities towards the edges.</p><div id="1eQtwQjExvA3YaYMkSQpkA"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/51MUiKcAtlkp0jD2PBhWSC/776f60ffdfba80b8ed2e13a3c1a4efe8/Leppington_Town_Plaza_in-article.jpg" alt="null" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/51MUiKcAtlkp0jD2PBhWSC/776f60ffdfba80b8ed2e13a3c1a4efe8/Leppington_Town_Plaza_in-article.jpg"></picture><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ Camden and Liverpool Councils are centring the town around a plaza in a “density pyramid” approach.<br><br> </span></div></div><p>There are already developments on the way in the area, including a two-stage subdivision which will create 235 residential lots between Camden Valley Way, George Road and Hulls Road.&nbsp;</p><p>A five-tower project by Salvo Property Group was <a data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/leppington-aerotropolis-five-tower-precinct" href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/leppington-aerotropolis-five-tower-precinct" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced for the area</a> last year and a <a data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/greenfield-sale-opens-up-western-sydney-airport-market" href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/greenfield-sale-opens-up-western-sydney-airport-market" target="_blank" rel="noopener">greenfield sale in Leppington North</a> will create further development next to the new town centre.</p><p>The councils want Leppington to become a new strategic centre “growing into a regionally significant transit-oriented centre providing major civic, cultural, recreational, retail and business service functions”.&nbsp;</p><p>As part of the Western Parkland City area, it will complement the Aerotropolis, another precinct plan which was under assessment at the end of last year anchored by the growth of Western Sydney Airport and nvestment in road and train networks in the area.</p><p>Leppington Town Centre should capitalise on the development of the Aerotropolis Precinct, the councils said, increasing its role in provisioning residential and employment, to “support the concept of a 30-minute city”.&nbsp;</p><p>“Leppington Town Centre will be a people and lifestyle-focused place, transit-oriented and highly convenient with major shopping, cultural and recreation facilities,” according to the councils.&nbsp;</p><p>“It will have multiple education and health facilities as well as convenient industrial and urban services space on its fringe to meet the needs of its local community.”&nbsp;</p><p>Public exhibition of the project will launch in April and the report is to befinalising by November 2023.</p>

Major opportunity in the works as high growth Sydney precinct seeks lead developer as part of Leppington “strategic core” rezoning plans…

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<p>A developer headed by the founder of AirTrunk data centres has submitted plans for a four-storey mixed-use block with the City of Port Phillip council.</p><p>FSST is the developer behind the proposal, which is headed by Robina Khuda, the founder and chief of the hyperscale data centre operator.</p><p>He has an estimated wealth of $600 million while AirTrunk is valued at more than $5 billion.</p><p>The project is planned for a 1603sq m site at 3-5, 7, 9 and 15 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda.</p><p>Four separate lots make up the site, which has an art-deco heritage-listed building on it.</p><p>It is on the beach end of Fitzroy Street where it curves to head south along the coast and becomes The Esplanade.</p><p>There is a frontage of 21.73m along Fitzroy Street next to a tramline.</p><p>Warren and Mahoney Architects designed the plans, which include retail space on the ground floor and apartments above.</p><p>The plans comprise 16 residential apartments above the ground floor’s 327sq m of retail space and 244sq m of communal space.</p><p>Two basement levels would provide 40 carparking spaces, five of which would be reserved for retail workers and customers along with 22 bike storage spaces.</p><div id="7HZOrbdISiTuROrOAmpbyx"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/6eoY7MTjgkfGdX86Mdweol/aa55673a44ff28a70f96370c10480430/map_20230101__1_.png" alt="null" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/6eoY7MTjgkfGdX86Mdweol/aa55673a44ff28a70f96370c10480430/map_20230101__1_.png"></picture><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ The site has more than 21.m of frontage to Fitzroy Street. Image: NearMap<br><br></span></div></div><p>Council records show an estimated construction cost of $22.3 million and CoreLogic’s property records show that 3-5, 7 and 9 Fitzroy Street exchanging hands in June, 2021.&nbsp;</p><p>The 3-5 Fitzroy Street parcel sold for $3.5 million, 7 Fitzroy Street made $1.6 million and 9 Fitzroy Street $2.7 million.<br><br>Buildings on the site date back to circa 1885 (3-9 Fitzroy Street) and 1935 (11-15 Fitzroy Street) as examples of Victorian and interwar Moderne architectural styles respectively.</p><p>Although the site sits within a heritage overlay, there are no controls that apply to the internal structures.</p><p>The buildings at 3-9 Fitzroy Street are graded as significant with many alterations having occurred over the years, the buildings at 11-15 Fitzroy Street are listed as contributory.</p><p>The plans by FSST include retaining all the facades of the buildings, reinstating the original roofs to a depth of 10m and rebuilding some of the ground floor retail space to follow the original storefront layouts.</p><p>Demolition of the internal structures behind the facade are deemed necessary in order to excavate the basement levels for car parking.</p><p>A new lobby entrance for the apartments will be created out of the storefront for 9 Fitzroy Street.</p><p>Also in St Kilda, <a data-mce-href="Proposed%20plans%20for%20the%20building%20include%20both%20communal%20and%20retail%20spaces%20on%20the%20ground%20floor." href="Proposed%20plans%20for%20the%20building%20include%20both%20communal%20and%20retail%20spaces%20on%20the%20ground%20floor." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Gurner recently listed his own residence</a> in his Saint Moritz project.</p>

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<p>A deal worth more than $2 billion has been struck between one of Australia’s biggest developers and a western Sydney council to revitalise the city’s centre.</p><p>The agreement between Walker Corporation and Blacktown City Council includes new office, health and retail developments in the CBD and a green square.</p><p>While details are being finalised, Walker executive chairman Lang Walker said the development would deliver more than 1000 construction jobs over five years and permanently add more than 4500 jobs and $920 million in value every year to the city’s economy, according to the Walker Corporation.</p><p>The deal adds to Walker’s current and past city-transforming projects in <a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/high-rise-limit-hike-parramatta-cbd-planning-proposal" data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/high-rise-limit-hike-parramatta-cbd-planning-proposal">Parramatta</a>, a $3-billion transformation that was completed less than a year ago, and Queensland’s <a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/maroochydore-city-centre-walker-corporation-suncentral-development-construction" data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/maroochydore-city-centre-walker-corporation-suncentral-development-construction">Maroochydore</a>.</p><p>“This is an exciting opportunity to deliver an urban transformation which will change the way people think about Blacktown and bring thousands of new jobs closer to where people live,” Lang Walker said.</p><p>“Blacktown is growing fast and it needs the modern amenities and infrastructure to match, accompanied by wide open public squares and better-designed access, in and around the city for pedestrians, cars, buses and those using public transport.”</p><div id="Fo2AAA2x6bsUiIaCd2UrN"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/9IDKrvjK4tkrRAcNFBxYY/296a20179183f2a6da2f7fd92e934dc2/2.jpg" alt="null" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/9IDKrvjK4tkrRAcNFBxYY/296a20179183f2a6da2f7fd92e934dc2/2.jpg"></picture><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ A concept render of part of the planned $2-billion revitalisation of the Blacktown CBD.<br><br></span></div></div><p>The future masterplan will also deliver the council’s mooted Blacktown Brain and Spinal Institute.</p><p>“Over the coming months we will be finessing the details of our masterplan to create vibrant, energised, people-friendly spaces through great architecture, careful placemaking and state-of-the-art facilities,” Walker said.</p><p>Blacktown, 35km west of the Sydney CBD, is the most populous city in NSW and continues to grow quickly with a predicted population of 615,000 by 2041.</p><p>Blacktown mayor Tony Bleasdale said the opportunity to work closely with Walker on a transformation the same size as Parramatta Square was “a game changer”.</p><p>“This is the beginning of a major boom period for Blacktown. The Walker project will play a central role in council’s long-term plan to ensure Blacktown residents have access to world class infrastructure, education, health and open space in the heart of our city, for our community to flourish,” Bleasdale said.</p><p>Business Western Sydney executive director David Borger said Walker coming to Blacktown was “a major win for our hard-working community”.</p><p>“Walker’s vision for Parramatta Square has transformed what was a run-down section of the CBD into a vibrant city centre that is now providing tens of thousands of new jobs in premium offices, fantastic restaurants and wide-open public plazas,” Borger said.</p><p>“Lang Walker and his team will no doubt bring that same visionary nous to Blacktown to help the city modernise in line with its rapid population growth.”</p>

Hot on the heels of its $3-billion project in Parramatta, the developer has struck a deal with Blacktown council to revitalise the city centre…

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<p>The retail property landscape of Australia’s CBDs is changing forever as the footprint of traditional department store chains continues to contract.</p><p>Certainly, a new shopping era is dawning.</p><p>And if there were any lingering doubts, they have been quelled by the imminent exit of department store giant Myer’s flagship Queensland store from its namesake Myer Centre in Brisbane’s Queen Street Mall.</p><p>“Myer has made the decision to depart the Myer Centre Brisbane at the end of its lease in July 2023,” the centre’s owners Vicinity and ISPT said in a statement on Thursday.</p><p>“The decision comes after months of negotiations and follows several store closures around the country as part of its consolidation strategy.” &nbsp;</p><p> In the end, it said, Myer had chosen not to exercise its option for lease renewal closing the door on its 35-year anchor tenancy.</p><p>Myer chief executive John King indicated a suitable deal could not be agreed upon during the renegotiation but flagged that the retailer was seeking to continue to have a presence in Brisbane's city centre.</p><p>“Whilst we remain committed to the Brisbane market, we have been unable to negotiate a reasonable commercial outcome with the landlord and as such will continue to look for an alternative CBD location,” he said.</p><p>With the Myer Centre store spread across four levels—and about half of its lettable floor space—its exit will leave a sizeable hole and the big question now is who or what will fill the void.</p><p>Vicinity and ISPT are remaining tight-lipped on their plans.</p><p>All they are saying is that they are “investigating a number of options” for the centre, including “a downsized contemporary department store and plans without a department store which we can now progress with certainty”.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>“We look forward to delivering a reimagined destination in the heart of Brisbane’s evolving CBD and anticipate sharing our plans shortly.”</p><p>Globally, the landlords of major retail assets have been moving away from traditional department stores as foot-traffic anchors in favour of creating cultural and&nbsp; entertainment hubs with experiential tenants to cater to changing consumer trends.</p><p>Nearby in the Brisbane CBD, a new major luxury shopping precinct is nearing completion at the $3.6-billion riverfront Queen's Wharf integrated casino mega-project. Its three-storey, 6000sq m T Galleria Emporium was due to open last year but construction delays due to record rainfall pushed it back until later this year.</p><p>Among almost 40,000sq m of retail, food and entertainment space planned for the development, it is being delivered as part of a deal struck between global retail giant DFS—part of the Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Group—and Destination Brisbane Consortium, the joint-venture behind Queen’s Wharf.</p><div id="6zA5XV278zmkOfa6XlQJN0"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/6Ctr6LkJ5LbFqhT3eGvzAI/ce6df4286a55c9a39518e20fb9756ad5/myer-centre.jpeg" alt="null" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/6Ctr6LkJ5LbFqhT3eGvzAI/ce6df4286a55c9a39518e20fb9756ad5/myer-centre.jpeg"></picture><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ All aboard! The Dragon rollercoaster in the Myer Centre, Brisbane, around the time it was opened, in 1988.<br><br></span></div></div><p>Brisbane’s six-level Myer Centre was built in 1988 and until 1991 it was the country's largest CBD retail development. It has a gross lettable area of more than 63,000 sq m occupied by about 180 retail outlets.</p><p>Superannuation fund-backed ISPT paid $366 million in 2012 for a half stake in the asset at the George Street end of Queen Street Mall. It acquired an additional 25 per cent stake from Vicinity in 2016, taking its ownership share to 75 per cent.</p><p>Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner said Myer’s decision to move out of the landmark retail property was “a sad day” for generations of Brisbane shoppers but a great opportunity for the city centre.</p><p>“With the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games on the horizon, now is the perfect time for the centre’s owners to reimagine one of Queensland’s premier retail spaces,” he said.</p><p>"The Myer Centre once had live music on its lower levels as well as a fun park at the top and has always evolved and moved with the times.</p><p>“I think this is a fantastic opportunity for the centre to be reinvigorated into a vibrant, modern retail experience for residents and visitors and I look forward to working with the owners on their future plans.”</p>

The department store giant—spread across four levels—will leave a sizeable hole in the retail property landscape and the big question now is who or what will fill the void...

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<p>In December 2020, the Monash Commission began a new inquiry.</p><p>In a world battered by Covid, the second and most recent inquiry by the highly regarded commission examined the “potential of intermediary cities in reframing post-pandemic liveability and explore what makes a ‘liveable metropolis’.”.</p><p>The commission brings together Australian and international experts to consider a specific question of priority facing our communities, business and government, and to deliver practical recommendations for urban planners, governments and communities for transformational cities of the future.</p><p>It made those recommendations in July last year and at the heart of them is a change in the way we view cities and approach their planning—the intermediary, or second, city.</p><p>Traditionally, the CBD with skyscrapers sits in a model of monocentric development: a hub or centre and a periphery of suburbs around it. People move towards the city and away from it for work, leisure and other uses. <br></p><p>But the pandemic changed all that, as Monash University’s vice-chancellor Professor Margaret Gardner explains.</p><p>“As the pandemic progressed, we witnessed a series of behaviors that seemed to show people that, frankly, you could have come in here and fired a gun down Collins Street and been lucky to hit anybody,” Gardner says.</p><p>“And you could be sure that every single coffee shop within a radius of many, many hundreds of metres ... had no one in it.&nbsp;</p><p>“Nobody believed that would happen—and all of a sudden the context was different.”<br></p><p>What the commission’s report found was that people’s behavioural changes seem to follow moving away from a single CBD model towards something more polycentric.<br></p><p>“Before the pandemic, countries such as Australia and Canada were already experiencing net internal migration of people into outlying cities and regional areas as the result of the rising cost of living and real estate in desirable areas close to the CBD,” the report says. <br></p><p>“This challenges assumptions about what was thought to be an irreversible trend of urban centralisation.”<br></p><p>It also says that the CBD model has not failed, rather, it is not suitable for all. <br></p><p>“What the pandemic has shown is that the concentration of infrastructure and systems do not necessarily translate into positive outcomes for all citizens,” the report says.<br></p><p>“It raises the question: what can be done differently?”<br></p><p>According to the report, that answer is&nbsp;planning and development.</p><div id="6w0655MDKmRI4jOe3oMmhQ"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/7f9X3kl4gW7zdJwscUJtS/d35f2f90592a71406db1a3ea110c48dd/dandenong_story_hero.jpg" alt="A possible design by DKO Architects for what the towers in Dandenong's City Centre could look like after Capital Alliance's RCD project is complete." data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/7f9X3kl4gW7zdJwscUJtS/d35f2f90592a71406db1a3ea110c48dd/dandenong_story_hero.jpg"></picture><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ A renders by DKO Architects for possible towers in Dandenong's City Centre after Capital Alliance's RCD project is complete.<br><br></span></div></div><h2>Creating a new way</h2><p><br>Polycentric development is a set of several hubs or centres developed and connected at the same time. <br></p><p>Intermediary cities are distinctly not a CBD, have less than a million people and are part of a network, but are different from local government areas in that they may have specific identities or functions. They also do not compete with the CBD or each other.<br></p><p>The commission’s report had two recommendations: to use policies and communication between different levels of government to create intermediary cities, and to create a new representative living index to better measure resident wellbeing. <br></p><p>“It lays bare some of our challenges including the rising cost of living, social housing inequity, environmental quality, traffic congestion, and calls for a different way of planning,” City of Monash chief executive Andi Diamond says. <br></p><p>The concept of second cities has been around for a while and has practical examples, most notably <a data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/dandenong-little-india-foster-street-rcd-capital-alliance-redevelopment-salta-inland-rail" href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/dandenong-little-india-foster-street-rcd-capital-alliance-redevelopment-salta-inland-rail" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dandenong’s bid for revitalisation, </a>which has been in planning and development since 2005. <br></p><p>Geelong has long called itself a second city, <a data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/new-planning-controls-central-geelong" href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/new-planning-controls-central-geelong" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently setting up the Central Geelong Framework Plan</a> to help guide future development.<br></p><p>And in New South Wales there are plans well advanced to create and further develop two additional CBDs—<a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/western-sydney-aerotropolis-planning-framework-finalised" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/western-sydney-aerotropolis-planning-framework-finalised">Parramatta and Aerotropolis—</a>partially driven by the need to provide affordable housing and then the transport networks, services and other infrastructure needed to support such large hubs of people.<br></p><div id="1vaP2XpXadF0uFgaSVcosU"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/12aXK2OAvRomVezQy7RvzR/c630705ecf4305cb48888407b6d1fcf9/Mid_article_resizes.jpg" alt="A render of a street in the western Sydney Aerotropolis." data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/12aXK2OAvRomVezQy7RvzR/c630705ecf4305cb48888407b6d1fcf9/Mid_article_resizes.jpg"></picture><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ A render of a street in the western Sydney Aerotropolis.<br><br></span></div></div><p>The report also lists six features of intermediary cities within the larger urban landscape or metropolis to help planners, developers and government create or further develop such cities. <br></p><p>These are balancing autonomy and integration into the larger metropolitan network; citizen and community wellbeing; equitable and sustainable design; experimentation and innovation; diverse economic bases and jobs; and vision, leadership and governance. <br></p><p>Canberra was highlighted as an example of an intermediary city that has worked on citizen and community wellbeing.</p><p>The ACT government’s Wellbeing Framework uses data to drive its policy, investment and infrastructure decisions, and measure the impact. <br></p><p>The framework is also crucially embedded in government decision-making and budget processes.<br></p><p>Other examples include the autonomy created when setting up The Randstand in The Netherlands and Vienna’s Aspern to illustrate how sustainable and equitable design has been incorporated with mobility needs for all&nbsp; driving large scale planning of urban spaces.</p><h2>Designing the intermediary city<br></h2><p><br>One of the commissioner on the Monash body, urban designer and founder of KCAP Architects and Planners Professor Kees Christiaanse, says designing such a second city requires a network of nodes and that there are certain things that must be done. <br></p><p>“If you want to make the metropolis into a more polycentric landscape which is eventually more sustainable, then you have to do a number of&nbsp; things,” Christiaanse says.<br></p><p>“You have to limit greenfield development as much as possible and stimulate brownfield redevelopment as much as you can.<br></p><p>“If you start the process of implementing such a design, you should not work on one scale at the same time.”<br></p><p>Some places are also more ideal than others for becoming intermediary cities, such as transport corridor crossroads where there are services and infrastructure to support a larger amount of people.<br></p><p>It is also important to look at where the project sits in the network and ensure there is sufficient space for dense housing but also for public open space and corridors to move through.<br></p><p>Christiaanse says a growth model for infrastructure is important.&nbsp; <br></p><p>“Make a growth model in which your transport model grows incrementally in accordance with the critical mass,” he says.<br></p><div id="36Gh18fNuRWn3pWMc4NtYP"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/1c90sIgmguitB095RM2BNO/ba85e255d2fa8a2ba7c962a135e7a4e7/Mid_article_resizes__1_.jpg" alt="A render of the Monash station, part of the Melbourne Rail Loop project." data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/1c90sIgmguitB095RM2BNO/ba85e255d2fa8a2ba7c962a135e7a4e7/Mid_article_resizes__1_.jpg"></picture><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ A render of the planned Monash station, part of the Suburban Rail Loop project.<br><br></span></div></div><h2>Monash as an intermediary city<br></h2><p>Monash, the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne with an area of 81.5sq km, has been chosen for the Monash National Employment and Innovation Cluster. The idea of it being treated as an intermediary city has been raised.<br></p><p>Another of the commissioners, Massachusetts Institute of Technology city and transport planning associate professor and mobility initiative director Jinhua Zhao, says while governments and corporations were naturally more risk averse, it was an ideal situation for Monash University to experiment with becoming&nbsp; an intermediary city focused on innovation.<br></p><p>“We’re professors—we’re paid to fail, so the others do not need to,” Zhao says.&nbsp;</p><p>“What’s unique about the City of Monash is that we have all three— government, corporations and the university—combined in a unique way in this locality.”<br></p><p>Fellow Monash Commissioner and Global Institute on Innovation Districts head Professor Julie Wagner agrees. <br></p><p>“With innovation districts, if you look at it within an intermediary city concept and across the region it is an opportunity to drive your economy to new heights and bring your talent along with it if you have the right systems in place,” Wagner says.<br></p><p>But there is work needed to make it happen, Diamond says, with better transport links, more services, infrastructure and housing for the more than 200,000 residents who live and work in it. <br></p><p>“Outside the [Melbourne] CBD, it’s Monash where most people come to work each day,” Diamond says. <br></p><p>“What we have learned on the ground is that during a crisis it is not unusual for people to return to their place of origin, the place they grew up in.<br></p><p>“And we don’t have services to offer them and Covid has added a layer of complexity.”<br></p><p>Some of that will be resolved <a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/vision-for-new-suburban-rail-loop-station-revealed" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/vision-for-new-suburban-rail-loop-station-revealed">when the new Suburban Rail Loop stations are built, two bordering Monash University’s Clayton campus and another at Glen Waverley</a> but there is still discussion about what else needs to be done to make it an innovation district.<br></p><div id="5VsGaVnkgEVky7MfGpq7yA"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/7zLAm4EWm0c5TkU2UXAuD2/1737cdf98b973659872f6fe9e7a5b9bb/Geelong_pain_and_gain.jpg" alt="An aerial image of Geelong Victoria." data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/7zLAm4EWm0c5TkU2UXAuD2/1737cdf98b973659872f6fe9e7a5b9bb/Geelong_pain_and_gain.jpg"></picture><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ Geelong has long considered itself a second city to the Melbourne CBD.<br><br></span></div></div><h2><strong>Changes to planning, development mindsets</strong><br></h2><p><br>It will require a change in mindset about how a metropolis is planned though some parts are already aligned, according to Victorian Planning Authority chair Jude Munro.<br></p><p>“Planning in Victoria, in relation to the whole of Victoria, supports the polycentric model,” Munro says.<br></p><p>“The Victorian government has a policy that 70 per cent of future growth should be happening in established Melbourne and 30 per cent in greenfields.<br></p><p>“Within metropolitan Melbourne, it has named three national employment innovation clusters. The Monash one is broader than the City of Monash and involves three municipalities.</p><p>“Our governance model of local government doesn’t entirely match what may emerge as the new policy in Melbourne.”<br></p><p>Wagner frames it another way and believes the second city concept is what lays ahead.<br></p><p>“The intermediary city concept is actually speaking to the gap of an intermediary form of governance and leadership—so what is your future going to mean?” Wagner says.<br></p><p>“If we were to act in an intermediary function, what does that mean for our councils? What does that mean for how the government realigns itself and thinks differently, and how we govern differently?<br></p><p>“I don’t believe you really have a choice.”&nbsp;<br><br></p><hr><p><strong><br>You are currently experiencing <em>The Urban Developer</em> Plus (TUD+), our premium membership for property professionals. </strong><a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/membership-plans" data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/membership-plans"><strong>Click here to learn more</strong></a></p><div id="2GhuueZl01Zwo2aFfjNVi2"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/12UMq5eMSEOh0QxJVBYaDt/d7507cf4ceb1365cc9ce7eaff84d06cc/tud___banner.jpg" alt="TUD + Banner" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/12UMq5eMSEOh0QxJVBYaDt/d7507cf4ceb1365cc9ce7eaff84d06cc/tud___banner.jpg"></picture></div>

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<p>The Brisbane Line was a supposed proposal from a wartime government advocating the surrender of entire swathes of northern Australia in the event of an invasion.&nbsp;</p><p>But the expendability of northern Australia seems to have been a premature idea in more ways than one, given the astronomical growth of cities and industry above ‘the Brisbane Line’ in recent years.</p><p>As other areas of the nation suffer from house price declines and interest rate increases, a focus on onshoring and low house prices mean that northern Australia is becoming a hotspot for developers across the board.</p><p>House prices have proven to be declining at a far slower rate, or not at all, in northern areas of Australia than the rest of the country.&nbsp;</p><p>CoreLogic data for February found that regional Western Australia is at its peak in terms of house prices, and Port Douglas was named number one in regional Queensland with the highest 12-month house value growth of 15 per cent.&nbsp;</p><div id="4gZ7iMIandoBd1OWQE8rYL"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/5ODa1rDZKBGMBDh2vwQYfz/4e3e8ea80ca8f1f17d57c3f9ebeb0dae/Enclave_urbex_Cairns_in-article.jpg" alt="null" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/5ODa1rDZKBGMBDh2vwQYfz/4e3e8ea80ca8f1f17d57c3f9ebeb0dae/Enclave_urbex_Cairns_in-article.jpg"></picture><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ Urbex’s residential development 7km from Cairns is a 58-lot “green oasis”. </span></div></div><p><br>Urbex Realty general manager Craig Covacich says that while sales volumes in south-east Queensland and Victoria softened 70 per cent, the regions, including Townsville and Darwin, softened by only 20 per cent.&nbsp;</p><p>“Prices have remained stable, and demand has remained constant in both Mackay and Townsville whereas we are experiencing a softening in our enquiry and sale rates and values in Brisbane,” he says.&nbsp;</p><p>Urbex last year made plans for an <a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/urbex-to-file-plans-for-800-lot-townsville-subdivision" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/urbex-to-file-plans-for-800-lot-townsville-subdivision">800-lot subdivision of 80.27ha site in Townsville</a>, throwing its weight behind the region.&nbsp;</p><p>“We are not experiencing a decline in values in Townsville and Mackay in the new housing market either.&nbsp;</p><p>“At the moment our experience is that regional housing values are holding as the underlying demand is underpinned by a demand to live outside of the capital cities and remote working remaining a viable option across some sectors of the labour force.”</p><h2>Housing</h2><p><br>Cairns was particularly hard-hit during the pandemic as the tourism industry failed, with 9000 tourism jobs and billions lost to its economy. According to the Reserve Bank, a full recovery in tourism <a href="https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2022/dec/the-recovery-in-the-australian-tourism-industry.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-mce-href="https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2022/dec/the-recovery-in-the-australian-tourism-industry.html">will not occur</a> until at least mid-2023.</p><p>But this has not stopped developers from investing in Far North Queensland.</p><p>The 56ha Cutters Rise is a major development about 20km south of Cairns at Gordonvale, developed on land belonging to the family of real estate professional Renee Straguszi.</p><p>“Oftentimes we’re the ones suffering up here,” says Straguszi.&nbsp;</p><p>“We missed two property cycles over the last 10 years, so what Covid did for us was bring us up to where the prices should have been anyway.&nbsp;</p><p>“But in comparison to the prices down south, they are still very affordable.”&nbsp;</p><div id="6Qob1SC7TUK3BzZgpaPLqJ"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/jnYY2HkifiGg5fAzcOdfj/75ebdf57f39abfd2bb50265abbac99a8/Casa_Mia_in-article_TUD_plus.jpg" alt="null" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/jnYY2HkifiGg5fAzcOdfj/75ebdf57f39abfd2bb50265abbac99a8/Casa_Mia_in-article_TUD_plus.jpg"></picture><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ Casa Mia is the retirement living stage of the Cutters Rise development in Cairns's southern corridor. </span></div></div><p><br>Seachange and treechange motivations were key drivers of sales for Cutters Rise during the pandemic and demand has not slowed, Straguszi says.&nbsp;</p><p>“With higher buyer enquiry from locals and a lot of southern enquiries still it’s keeping the market steady. But listings are getting tighter and tighter so not as many people are selling.”&nbsp;</p><p>With the local government spending billions on infrastructure around the southern corridor of Cairns, it’s ideally placed for residential growth.</p><p>“Our smallest lot is 600sq m and we also offer quarter-acre blocks of flat useable land, in an area where there is so much infrastructure going up, new supermarkets, police stations, petrol stations, childcare and we have our retirement project Casa Mia being built as well.&nbsp;</p><p>“The council is very behind Cutters Rise and Casa Mia because there hasn’t been a lot of major development in the southern corridor for many years.”</p><div id="6TKNe4lpeCipdzIMunYE6c"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/1bCtXieJzVpU5doH9x3pGY/b80a34bd60c83a9c2bc00c5560e1ae4c/Cutters_Rise.jpg" alt="null" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/1bCtXieJzVpU5doH9x3pGY/b80a34bd60c83a9c2bc00c5560e1ae4c/Cutters_Rise.jpg"></picture><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ Cutters Rise is on former farmland belonging to the Straguszi family, who acquired it for sugar cane in 1935. </span></div></div><p><br>Straguszi says that at the launch of stage one of Cutters Rise in 2020-21, the sales team were “inundated” with enquiries.</p><p>“I don’t think we’ll see much of a decline in sales prices here in Cairns, it will stay steady and it’s all dependent on the person buying the property and what situation they’re in. We’re seeing record sales in apartments in Cairns, extremely low vacancy rates, there is a housing shortage.”&nbsp;</p><p>According to the data from CoreLogic, Cairns house prices have risen 0.5 per cent month on month, and 4.1 per cent over the past 12 months.&nbsp;</p><p>This is in comparison to Brisbane inner-city’s 0.7 per cent monthly decline and 7 per cent decline over the same 12 months.&nbsp;</p><div id="YBkyoLyhNrP3DXEjUXEFE"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/jxh24KSLo02T062pVZDBI/8544525e89d822c23a548f42dda9d63c/Cairns_esplanade.jpg" alt="null" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/jxh24KSLo02T062pVZDBI/8544525e89d822c23a548f42dda9d63c/Cairns_esplanade.jpg"></picture><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ Cairns house prices have stayed consistent after a steady period of growth. </span></div></div><p><br>But the strength of northern markets is not linked solely to housing.</p><p>Sentinel Property Group has major assets in central and northern Queensland as well as Darwin and Port Hedland.&nbsp;</p><p>Sentinel chief executive officer Warren Ebert said the north and central Queensland assets were some of the group’s best performers.&nbsp;</p><p>“An average income in Mackay is about the same in Sydney but houses are a quarter of the price,” Ebert says.&nbsp;</p><p>“In Queensland and Darwin, wages are very high in those mining industries and they have high disposable incomes.&nbsp;</p><p>“They go and spend that extra on cars, boats, and shopping. Of our highest turnover centres, those in Townsville and Mackay are numbers one and two.”</p><h2>Industrial and defence</h2><p><br>Billions of dollars are flowing into northern Australia from the federal government through infrastructure projects plus energy and defence spending make it ‘a land of opportunity’ for developers.&nbsp;</p><p>In Queensland, the Port of Townsville is spending $262 million widening its channel to accommodate larger vessels and the Lansdown Eco-Industrial Precinct is being supported by $74 million of infrastructure spending.&nbsp;</p><p>In Cairns, $265 million has been allocated to the improvement of Captain Cook Highway links between the port and the city.</p><p>Meanwhile in Western Australia, the federal government allocated nearly $500 million in funding to boost the output of critical minerals used in electric vehicles and batteries, and this month the government announced a $565 million investment in Port Hedland’s expansion, which it says will create hundreds of jobs.&nbsp;</p><div id="5ghdf3PNA2swvMMoZOzCSn"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/5kX1VhkWZ9Lp2SzDaCDVRU/538f6e95a5d3a6adc5e03ab503532f2d/Downtown_Darwin_TUD_plus.jpg" alt="null" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/5kX1VhkWZ9Lp2SzDaCDVRU/538f6e95a5d3a6adc5e03ab503532f2d/Downtown_Darwin_TUD_plus.jpg"></picture><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ Darwin has bucked house price trends and will receive $2.2 billion in government infrastructure investment in the coming years. </span></div></div><p><br>“Over the last few years the government has realised we have to be more self-reliant,” says Sentinel’s Ebert.&nbsp;</p><p>Other sectors that aren’t necessarily as prevalent in other areas of the country are also proving a boon.</p><p>“In addition, you have another [army] brigade moving to Townsville in the next three years, with 1500 personnel, multiply that by 3 or 4 as they will be bringing family members with them, that’s another 5000 permanent added to the population.</p><p>“The defence base in Townsville is the largest in Australia. Defence isn’t going away—it’s only getting bigger and bigger.”&nbsp;</p><p>Meanwhile, private industry continues to see value in northern Queensland. Queensland Pacific Metals (QPM) has chosen the Lansdown precinct as the future home of its proposed $2.1 billion Townsville Energy Chemicals Hub project.</p><p>All these things add up, explained Ebert, to a major opportunity for developers, one which Sentinel has capitalised on.&nbsp;</p><p>However, it is not without its challenges, including making places with an average annual temperature of 30 degrees and 60 per cent humidity attractive to southerners, as well as a dearth of construction workers.</p><p>“Back in normal times, when things would slow down you could get tradies to move up north for work, but it’s not slowing down south so you’re not getting tradies up there,” Ebert said.</p><p>Regardless, the wealth and spending annexed in the north of Australia makes it a major opportunity for developers after the grind of southern markets.</p><p>“The wealth for Australia is being made in northern Australia,” says Ebert, “and that looks unlikely to change in the coming years.”<br><br></p><hr><p><strong><br>You are currently experiencing&nbsp;<em>The Urban Developer</em>&nbsp;Plus (TUD+), our premium membership for property professionals.&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/membership-plans" data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/membership-plans"><strong>Click here to learn more.</strong></a></p><div id="2GhuueZl01Zwo2aFfjNVi2"><div data-rmiz-wrap="visible"><div><div id="2GhuueZl01Zwo2aFfjNVi2"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/12UMq5eMSEOh0QxJVBYaDt/d7507cf4ceb1365cc9ce7eaff84d06cc/tud___banner.jpg" alt="TUD + Banner" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/12UMq5eMSEOh0QxJVBYaDt/d7507cf4ceb1365cc9ce7eaff84d06cc/tud___banner.jpg"></picture><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>

Northern Australia, from Port Hedland to Darwin, Cairns and Townsville, is proving resilient in challenging economic times, and developers are looking at the opportunities available in a neglected market...

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<p>Pellicano’s third and final stage of its $250-million mixed-use hub The Links in Oakleigh South has been approved.</p><p>The development at the site 17km south-east of the Melbourne CBD will include a shoptop build-to-rent project, named Fieldworks House.</p><p>The Links final stage will also add 3000sq m of ground-floor retail and hospitality as well as provision for a second supermarket to join the existing network of retailers, which includes Woolworths, BWS, Bunnings Warehouse, Snap Fitness, Chemist Warehouse and a medical hub, created during the first two stage of the project.&nbsp;</p><p>To be built above the retail component, Fieldworks House will come under the Pellicano Living banner and comprise 166 apartments in one, two and three bedrooms plus a “signature mix of hotel-style amenities with community-focused living”.</p><p>The i2c Architects-designed Fieldworks House, would “embody Pellicano Living’s goal of offering premium lifestyle amenities in sought-after locations” according to the developer.</p><div id="TxuTUyytszx55PNlEXhOj"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/1DmPOKNexj88blFLwQi7eR/7c7ea995e3a119cc0ae10d7b7ebe1dc0/Mid_article_resizes__3_.jpg" alt="null" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/1DmPOKNexj88blFLwQi7eR/7c7ea995e3a119cc0ae10d7b7ebe1dc0/Mid_article_resizes__3_.jpg"></picture><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ The Links final stage will also add 3000sq m of ground-floor retail and hospitality to the existing network of retailers created during the first two stage of the project.<br><br></span></div></div><p>The first floor will include a communal landscaped park and lawn, while the rooftop will incorporate shared spaces and alfresco dining areas.</p><p>“We set out to create a new retail hub for Oakleigh South with The Links – our tenant mix, including a number of blue chip operators and our location have made it a popular choice among leading retailer brands,” managing director Nando Pellicano said.</p><p>“With plans now approved, we expect to break ground on the Fieldworks House site later this year.”</p><div id="carousel-root" data-reactroot=""><image-carousel-remove-button><div class="rm-carousel-wrapper"><button id="rm-carousel" class="rm-carousel-btn">Delete</button></div></image-carousel-remove-button><div class="slider-wrap"><image-carousel><div class="slider-el"><img style="height: 100%;" title="230308-VIEW-03.jpg" src="http://images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/6ota2gXpL39bL7hm2Cq9j6/56c1642d0fe90c6edc47e16b8d90cc22/230308-VIEW-03.jpg" data-mce-src="http://images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/6ota2gXpL39bL7hm2Cq9j6/56c1642d0fe90c6edc47e16b8d90cc22/230308-VIEW-03.jpg" data-mce-style="height: 100%;"></div><div class="slider-el"><img style="height: 100%;" title="230308-VIEW-05.jpg" src="http://images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/2bRNDrC9QxqaCsgNhF0evb/116f9a1616a1ab6254ad2e51cabcb27f/230308-VIEW-05.jpg" data-mce-src="http://images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/2bRNDrC9QxqaCsgNhF0evb/116f9a1616a1ab6254ad2e51cabcb27f/230308-VIEW-05.jpg" data-mce-style="height: 100%;"></div><div class="slider-el"><img style="height: 100%;" title="230308-VIEW-01.jpg" src="http://images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/JEMOQ6Icttk6fO1ZhwyJI/bd781854ca32babb974e4ea7ba10bd6a/230308-VIEW-01.jpg" data-mce-src="http://images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/JEMOQ6Icttk6fO1ZhwyJI/bd781854ca32babb974e4ea7ba10bd6a/230308-VIEW-01.jpg" data-mce-style="height: 100%;"></div><div class="slider-el"><img style="height: 100%;" title="230308-VIEW-09.jpg" src="http://images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/5au6crQPIIDVnxwMvQcDpB/2889222f5271009b59210070588ac531/230308-VIEW-09.jpg" data-mce-src="http://images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/5au6crQPIIDVnxwMvQcDpB/2889222f5271009b59210070588ac531/230308-VIEW-09.jpg" data-mce-style="height: 100%;"></div><div class="slider-el"><img style="height: 100%;" title="230308-VIEW-08.jpg" src="http://images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/4ibLXJAeEERsQ206SmHQ4Q/abe639d52580787cc0b4a1e733cc9480/230308-VIEW-08.jpg" data-mce-src="http://images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/4ibLXJAeEERsQ206SmHQ4Q/abe639d52580787cc0b4a1e733cc9480/230308-VIEW-08.jpg" data-mce-style="height: 100%;"></div></image-carousel></div></div><p><br>Elsewhere across <a data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/pellicano-build-to-rent-piepline-brisbane-melbourne" href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/pellicano-build-to-rent-piepline-brisbane-melbourne" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pellicano’s portfolio</a>, works have recently completed on Solarino House at Brunswick, also in Victoria, and Perry House at Bowen Hills, Queensland. Pellicano now has more than 350 operational build-to-rent apartments in its portfolio.&nbsp;</p><p>A further 400 are currently under construction in Queensland, including the 110-apartment Berwick House in Fortitude Valley, the 150-apartment <a data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/pellicano-gabba-build-to-rent-under-way-tax-scrapped" href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/pellicano-gabba-build-to-rent-under-way-tax-scrapped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillyard House</a>, at Woolloongabba and the <a data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/pellicano-21-duke-street-kangaroo-point-development-application-approval" href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/pellicano-21-duke-street-kangaroo-point-development-application-approval" target="_blank" rel="noopener">86-apartment Story House</a>, Kangaroo Point. &nbsp;</p>

The developer is now poised to break ground on the third and final stage of its $250-million mixed-use hub in Melbourne’s south-west…

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<p>Plans for a $110-million shoptop development have been filed to revamp a 1980s shopping centre at Canterbury-Bankstown in Sydney.&nbsp;</p><p>The combined concept plan and detailed development application prepared for Henroth Group by GYDE Consulting covers the first two of four stages of the masterplan.</p><p>The project “seeks to transform the current centre into a vibrant multi-use, people-focused, town centre”.&nbsp;</p><p>It would deliver a shoptop housing development ‘sleeving’ the existing one-storey Chullora Marketplace building.</p><p>The site at 353-355 Waterloo Road, Greenacre would become home to a complex of buildings ranging from two to six storeys.</p><p>Its retail element will have a gross floor area of 39,768sq m, including the entire Chullora Marketplace shopping centre of 21,801 square metres.&nbsp;</p><p>Under stage one plans, 90 apartments would be included in the proposed building envelopes, as well as a 130-place child care centre. Stage two will add 82 apartments.</p><p>The initial apartmens will comprise one to four bedrooms, the majority being two bedroom.&nbsp; The development will provide 570 parking spaces within two basement levels.</p><p>The proposal was this week referred to the Sydney South Planning Panel.</p><div id="3eLzNE5Ugdr7V1cgZdL0jO"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/6mPaKlpIbiiipYCUDiGyuJ/2e273137131d5786e2a411c1b1461d13/Churolla_marketplace_in_article_2.jpg" alt="null" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/6mPaKlpIbiiipYCUDiGyuJ/2e273137131d5786e2a411c1b1461d13/Churolla_marketplace_in_article_2.jpg"></picture><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ Bankstown has been labelled a growth hotspot thanks the area’s general aviation airport and new hospital precincts.<br><br> </span></div></div><p>The majority of the site has been operating as a supermarket-based shopping centre since it was developed in 1982.</p><p>It has undergone upgrades over the years, according to the application, but still bears the hallmarks of a traditional standalone, car-based centre with “limited attraction to the community other than for convenience shopping trips”.&nbsp;</p><p>The area has recently been rezoned to become part of the Bankstown Local Environmental Plan.&nbsp;</p><p>Canterbury Bankstown has been named <a data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/top-5-sydney-hotspots-developers-need-to-target" href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/top-5-sydney-hotspots-developers-need-to-target" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one of Sydney’s developer hotspots—</a>Vicinity last year was given the green light to transform the centre of Bankstown with <a data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/vicinity-bankstown-central-stage-approved" href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/vicinity-bankstown-central-stage-approved" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a $1.3-billion development</a>.</p><p>Meanwhile,&nbsp;Sydney-based investors Henroth were linked to a project last year in Brisbane for a residential site in <a data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/developer-cuts-120-apartments-from-brisbane-towers-plan-west-end" href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/developer-cuts-120-apartments-from-brisbane-towers-plan-west-end" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the city’s West End.</a></p>

 A 1980s shopping centre in Bankstown will get a new lease of life if a newly-lodged $110 million shoptop masterplan is approved…

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<p>Altis Property Partners and Aware Real Estate has lodged plans for an 18-storey build-to-rent tower in Melbourne’s Preston.</p><p>Aware Real Estate is the property investment platform of Aware Super’s directly owned Australian property portfolio.</p><p>The 3029sq m site at 6-34 High Street had prior planning approval for a 17-storey building with 174 apartments and 198 basement level car parking spaces, which was granted in 2012.</p><p>Previous owner-occupier Paint Mobile sold the site to Altis and Aware Super in 2022 for $14 million.</p><p>At the time of the sale, the partners indicated their intent to develop a build-to-rent project on the site, which has 63.5m of frontage onto Preston’s High Street.</p><p>An application has now been filed with the City of Darebin council to amend the previous planning permit to include a new design of 18 storeys plus two basement levels comprising 157 units and six shops.</p><p>BCI records show an estimated end value of $50 million.</p><p>A landscaped courtyard, residents’ lounge and rooftop terrace are also included in the amended design as well as 72 bicycle storage spaces and 203 car parking spaces.</p><p>The building on the site currently is used as a warehouse and retail outlet. Preston is 9km north-east of the Melbourne CBD.</p><div id="3UvK2ijbCzZRtqKKpJ5Lbq"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/25UoCwrhWVi0nKJ6dnY0dn/068a525b022164079142caad17cb84d6/altis_aware_super_story_mid_article_image.jpg" alt="A render of the project as seen on Aware Real Estate's website." data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/25UoCwrhWVi0nKJ6dnY0dn/068a525b022164079142caad17cb84d6/altis_aware_super_story_mid_article_image.jpg"></picture><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ A render of the proposed High Street build-to-rent.</span></div><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;"><br></span></div></div><p><a data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/aware-super-real-estate-michelle-mcnally" href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/aware-super-real-estate-michelle-mcnally" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aware Real Estate has 11 existing assets</a>, eight assets in development and a $1.9-billion portfolio with a 99 per cent occupancy rate.</p><p>The companies have also recently bought a half-stake in the Sunshine Marketplace for a speculated $65 million.</p><p>Challenger, who has a partnership with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, sold the stake after initially buying it from Vicinity Centres in 2013 for $45.5 million.</p><p>Vicinity owns the rest of the asset and manages it <a data-mce-href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/vicinity-salta-victoria-gardens-richmond-melbourne-redevelopment" href="https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/vicinity-salta-victoria-gardens-richmond-melbourne-redevelopment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as part of its massive retail portfolio</a>.</p><p>The 34,153sq m shopping centre is on a 12.2ha site, leaving plenty of room for development with a masterplan for 17 buildings across 11 blocks.</p><p>Last year, Aware Super and Altis also bought a site on Queens Road in South Melbourne opposite Albert Park and has plans for a housing project aimed at key workers.&nbsp;</p>

A partnership between a developer and a super fund has led to amended plans being lodged for a site on a popular strip…


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<p>Development interest remains high in Collingwood with two major projects filed and on exhibition in the suburb.&nbsp;</p><p>Salta Properties has filed amendments for its project at 60-72 Landridge Street, changing tack from a residential hotel to a mixed-use office and retail building.</p><p>The 1058sq m site will still have an eight-storey building and require a liquor license with a development cost of $28 million.</p><p>According to the planning report submitted as part of the application, it was deemed that with the City of Yarra’s objectives for increasing economic activity in the area, there was a better outcome for an office project than for a residential hotel.</p><p>There were 180 guest rooms planned for the residential hotel.</p><p>Gray Puksand designed the plans for the office development, which include 36 carparking spaces across two basement levels, and 46 bike storage spaces, end-of-trip facilities, a food and beverage tenancy and two restricted retail tenancies on the ground floor.</p><p>There will be a total of 4939sq m of office space across the first to seventh floor.&nbsp;<br></p><p>Also filed with the City of Yarra council recently is a nine-storey medical centre with four basement levels for carparking at 151-159 Victoria Parade.</p><p>Plans by ArcZero Architects include 178 carparking spaces, end-of-trip facilities, 18,442 sq m of gross floor space and 8613sq m of net lettable area for medical offices.</p><p>Council documents report an estimated cost of $14.9 million for the project on the 1680sq m site.&nbsp;</p><p>The site was previously home to a Liberty petrol station, which was damaged by fire in August ,2021.</p><p>Authorities recommended that the station be demolished.</p><p>CoreLogic reported the site last changing hands in August, 1980 for $227,000.&nbsp;</p><p>The company Duong-Hoang Pty Ltd is listed as the owner of the site on the application form.</p>

As development activity increases in Melbourne’s suburbs, Salta Properties files changes to its Collingwood project…


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<p>Civic architect, urban planner and activist Sir David Alan Chipperfield, CH, has been selected as the 2023 Laureate of The Pritzker Architecture Prize.</p><p>His work is “subtle yet powerful, subdued yet elegant” and he is “a prolific architect who is radical in his restraint”, according the committee behind the award, which is regarded internationally as architecture’s highest honour.</p><p>“He reimagines functionality and accessibility of new buildings, renovations and restorations through timeless modern design that confronts climate urgencies, transforms social relationships and reinvigorates cities,” the committee said.&nbsp;</p><p>At the same time showing “his reverence for history and culture while honouring the pre-existing built and natural environments”.</p><p>Chipperfield’s built works, spanning four decades, are expansive in typology and geography, including more than 100 works ranging from civic, cultural and academic buildings to residences and urban masterplanning throughout Asia, Europe and North America.</p><div id="1JxbnxiPZjaaIN48468UIL"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/57YuUcW2aCw7DAx7x22sLT/bcbcb90c2af666c6642e6524dc4c479e/Mid_article_resizes__10_.jpg" alt="null" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/57YuUcW2aCw7DAx7x22sLT/bcbcb90c2af666c6642e6524dc4c479e/Mid_article_resizes__10_.jpg"></picture><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ Pritzker Architect Prize 2023 Laureate David Chipperfield.<br><br></span></div></div><p>Chipperfield said he was “overwhelmed to receive this extraordinary honour and to be associated with the previous recipients who have all given so much inspiration to the profession”.</p><p>&nbsp;“I take this award as an encouragement to continue to direct my attention not only to the substance of architecture and its meaning but also to the contribution that we can make as architects to address the existential challenges of climate change and societal inequality.</p><p>“We know that, as architects, we can have a more prominent and engaged role in creating not only a more beautiful world but a fairer and more sustainable one too.</p><p>“We must rise to this challenge and help inspire the next generation to embrace this responsibility with vision and courage.”</p><p>The 2023 Jury Citation of the Laureate said, “This commitment to an architecture of understated but transformative civic presence and the definition—even through private commissions —of the public realm is done always with austerity, avoiding unnecessary moves and steering clear of trends and fashions, all of which is a most relevant message to our contemporary society.”</p><p>Chipperfield calculates the environmental and historical impacts of permanence, embracing the pre-existing, designing and intervening in dialogue with time and place to adopt and refresh the architectural language of each locale.</p><p>For instance, James-Simon-Galerie (Berlin, Germany, 2018) on a narrow island along the Kupfergraben canal and accessible by the Schlossbrucke bridge, serves as the gateway to Museum Island.</p><div id="7FAzWga2b7tES4OQgI5khf"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/3CjfM6YnvgsOKzQuVzHPXh/8669a11d3427f5592e930149c0c54d2c/James-Simon-Galerie_8.jpeg" alt="null" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/3CjfM6YnvgsOKzQuVzHPXh/8669a11d3427f5592e930149c0c54d2c/James-Simon-Galerie_8.jpeg"></picture><div><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ The James-Simon-Galerie, Berlin. Photo: Ute Zscharnt for David Chipperfield Architects <br><br></span></div></div><p>Commanding, though discreet, colonnades with grand scale enclose a terrace, a wide expansive staircase and a manifold of open spaces allow abundant light into the large entryway of the building.</p><p>The design enables generous views from within and beyond, even though to adjacent buildings and the surrounding urban landscape.</p><p>Tom Pritzker, chair of the Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the award, said Chipperfield was “assured without hubris, consistently avoiding trendiness to confront and sustain the connections between tradition and innovation, serving history and humanity”.</p><p>“While his works are elegantly masterful, he measures the achievements of his designs by social and environmental welfare to enhance the quality of life for all of civilization.”<br><br></p><hr><h2><br>Selected works</h2><p><br>Descriptions from the 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize official photo book.<br><br><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/2K8adFycewZyexSa8LZPQ8/eaab7c9125bb91ba108781039bae3589/River_and_Rowing_Museum_1.jpeg" alt="null" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/2K8adFycewZyexSa8LZPQ8/eaab7c9125bb91ba108781039bae3589/River_and_Rowing_Museum_1.jpeg"></picture></p><div id="3eXfodBCGWRgqUIiRRTKDR"><div style="text-align: right;" data-mce-style="text-align: right;"><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ Photo: Richard Bryant / Arcaid <br><br></span></div></div><p><strong>River and Rowing Museum</strong><br>(1997)<br>Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom</p><p>Located on the south bank of the Thames, the River and Rowing Museum, exhibiting rowing boats, the history of the sport, the River Thames and the town of Henley, marked Chipperfield’s first building in his native England.</p><p>Designed during a time when the future of modern architecture seemed uncertain in Great Britain, this building assimilated with and deviated from a traditional English neighborhood.</p><p>Locality is reassured in its design, featuring clerestory and pitched roofs inspired by river boathouses and the traditional wooden barns of Oxfordshire, and clad with untreated green English oak—yet two volumes of transparent glass bases, elevated on concrete pillars to withstand flooding, offer a subtle but powerful discourse between modernity and heritage.&nbsp;</p><div id="15cEKjAHLOeGunjXp2QgmG"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/2W2WQs8rO84wbAWCEsU0mf/d00f1744942a0c0aa067b27657620a88/The_Hepworth_Wakefield_2.jpeg" alt="null" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/2W2WQs8rO84wbAWCEsU0mf/d00f1744942a0c0aa067b27657620a88/The_Hepworth_Wakefield_2.jpeg"></picture><div style="text-align: right;" data-mce-style="text-align: right;"><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ Photo: Iwan Baan<br></span><br></div></div><p><strong>The Hepworth Wakefield</strong><br>(2011)<br>West Yorkshire, United Kingdom</p><p>Located at the historic Wakefield waterfront conservation district at a bend of the River Calder, The Hepworth Wakefield is exposed on all sides and composed of 10 interlinked trapezoidal volumes, each singular in size and angle.</p><p>Accessible only via footbridge, the building appears to rise out of the river, which also serves as a source of a passive air system that aids heating and cooling efficiencies.</p><p>The exterior, with its sloped roofs, responds visually to the neighboring mills, warehouses and industrial buildings, while the varying interior galleries are scaled to complement the range of forms by the late artist Barbara Hepworth.</p><p>The pitched ceilings admit intentional and diffused sunlight to<br>accommodate sensitive works on paper, large plasters and sculptures located upstairs.</p><p>Ground floor programming is reserved for public access, including a performance space, a learning studio and a cafeteria.</p><div id="7alpA0shAvklBuWsFmqAuW"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/43WqsPuZVpHwf14OalJomW/6c489cd8209b84d78aee747d066f1123/Royal_Academy_of_Arts_2.jpeg" alt="null" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/43WqsPuZVpHwf14OalJomW/6c489cd8209b84d78aee747d066f1123/Royal_Academy_of_Arts_2.jpeg"></picture><div style="text-align: right;" data-mce-style="text-align: right;"><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ Photo: The Royal Academy of Arts<br><br></span></div></div><p><strong>Royal Academy of Arts Masterplan</strong><br>(2018)<br>London, United Kingdom<br></p><p>The masterplan for the venerable Royal Academy of Arts, founded in 1768, unites Burlington House on Piccadilly, its longstanding building since 1868, and 6 Burlington Gardens, a former Senate House acquired by the institution in 1998.</p><p>The historic integrity of the buildings were preserved through restorations in collaboration with Julian Harrap Architects but Chipperfield applied a modern intervention to bridge the two buildings, figuratively and literally.</p><p>The concrete bridge establishes a new urban identity, overlooking a new sculpture garden, connecting the two opposite entrances that served each of the formerly separate buildings and providing a new public route between Piccadilly and Burlington Gardens.</p><p>A light renovation upgraded the main building, while rooms in Burlington Gardens are repurposed to satisfy the evolved needs of its inhabitants—a newly installed architecture space expands the school’s program; a theatre is reinstated but with a sunken floor and circular in shape; a senate room now serves as a cafeteria; and laboratory rooms have become gallery spaces.<br></p><div id="carousel-root" data-reactroot=""><image-carousel-remove-button><div class="rm-carousel-wrapper"><button id="rm-carousel" class="rm-carousel-btn">Delete</button></div></image-carousel-remove-button><div class="slider-wrap"><image-carousel><div 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public, work and respite.</p><p>Vertical aluminium fins across the glass facade provide solar shading to aid thermal conditions and natural ventilation and create a translucency, encouraging a rapport between the building’s occupants, its neighbours and observers.</p><p>Office space is equipoised by a public atrium, museum, library, auditorium and restaurants. A central courtyard allows views through to nearby buildings and hanging gardens further engage the community inside with the elements outside.<br></p><div id="1IqBYkvUzKBkvkYdeuetAb"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/1tdLWQqWzdkARDrZKUnWOv/269f5f4f120a1550cbe38ce553119525/Turner_Contemporary_2.jpeg" alt="null" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/1tdLWQqWzdkARDrZKUnWOv/269f5f4f120a1550cbe38ce553119525/Turner_Contemporary_2.jpeg"></picture><div style="text-align: right;" data-mce-style="text-align: right;"><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ Photo, also main image: Simon Menges<br><br></span></div></div><p><strong>Turner Contemporary</strong><br>(2011)<br>Margate, United Kingdom</p><p>On the north coast of Kent, Turner Contemporary, inspired by the artist JMW Turner, is a dramatic focal point for the neighbourhood.</p><p>Accessibility is by design and society. Six identical crystalline volumes lend an essence of transparency, similar to a Turner painting itself, while allowing generous views of the sea.</p><p>The programming of historic and contemporary works throughout the public gallery is free.</p><p>Design elements are incorporated to mitigate harsh sea conditions such as occasional flooding and overtopping. The building, constructed with a concrete frame and acid-etched glass skin, is also raised on a plinth and incorporates mono-pitched roofs to effectively drain water.<br></p><div id="1NcSxQow9BGG3223OtSg4g"><picture><img src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/1DFIvZZceSvQyvk9lcNLZC/c5f26ea1090ec9679b0260625530eb44/Inagawa_Cemetery_2.jpeg" alt="null" data-mce-src="//images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/1DFIvZZceSvQyvk9lcNLZC/c5f26ea1090ec9679b0260625530eb44/Inagawa_Cemetery_2.jpeg"></picture><div style="text-align: right;" data-mce-style="text-align: right;"><span style="opacity: 0.8;" data-mce-style="opacity: 0.8;">▲ Photo: Keiko Sasaoka<br><br></span></div></div><p><strong>Inagawa Cemetery Chapel and Visitor Centre</strong><br>(2017)<br>Hyogo, Japan</p><p>At the Inagawa Cemetery Chapel and Visitor Centre, constructed in collaboration with Key Operation Inc and situated in the Hokusetsu Mountains, the physical and spiritual coexist, with places of<br>solitude and gathering, for peace and seeking.</p><p>These interconnected expressions are mirrored in the earth-like red monolithic buildings, with a circulation of stairs and pathways residing amid the sloped terrain.</p><p>A shrine is the focal point, atop a grand staircase that serves as an axis, with gardens inspired by Japanese meadows and woodlands.</p><p>The centre are diagonal from one another, with interior spaces that are unadorned and minimally heated.&nbsp;</p>

Civic architect, urban planner and activist Sir David Chipperfield’s work across four decades and more than 100 project have been recognised with architecture’s highest honour…

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