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Second Stage of 300-Home Sunshine Scheme Completes
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (307+ words) The second tranche of homes under a $200-million redevelopment of a former water corporation site in Melbourne's west has completed. The 12.5ha City West Water site at Sunshine North, 12km from the CBD, a former water utilities depot, was rezoned for residential…...
Campelltown Townhouse Site Tipped into Midrise Play
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (387+ words) A 12-townhouse development in south-west Sydney would be demolished to make way for a seven-storey apartment project under the state's low and midrise housing reforms. Proposed for 22 Moore Street, Campbelltown are 71 apartments across a 2981sq m site, including affordable housing equal…...
Designing Story into Space: Inside 25hours Hotel Olympia
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (652+ words) Sydney's 25hours Hotel Olympia has opened at Paddington, converting the heritage-listed former West Olympia Theatre into a 109-room lifestyle hotel with a rooftop bar, restaurants and entertainment spaces. Central Element developed the project alongside builder Richard Crookes Constructions and hotel operator…...
From Vineyard to Venue: Australia Bets Big on Agritourism
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (112+ words) Agritourism is no longer a side hustle'it's a $20.3-billion industry reshaping where Australians invest, travel and spend. Once dismissed as a niche add-on, agritourism, which increasingly includes accommodation, commands 14 per cent of total tourism spending in Australia, according to Ray…...
Bondi Beach Proposal Swaps Boarding House for Units
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (98+ words) A Bondi Beach corner site once approved for a boarding house is back before the Waverley Council with a new apartment bid. The proposal for 148-150 Curlewis Street includes demolishing the building on the site, Penhale Court'a three-storey block from 1822 with…...
Zero-Car Parking Paradigm for Perth PBSA Projects
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (758+ words) A student housing complex planned for central Perth and another for inner Fremantle will have a combined 41 floors and negative net car bays if approved as presented by Western Australian developer Sirona Urban. Open for consultation until February 18 is Sirona's…...
Negative Net Carparks Nod a ‘Watershed’ for PBSA in Perth
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (831+ words) Approval of a student housing scheme with no car spaces to replace a defunct three-storey carpark is being seen as a watershed moment for Western Australia's PBSA sector. Last week, in a Metro Inner Development Assessment Panel meeting that stretched…...
How Landscaping Drives Long-Term Asset Value and Returns
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (999+ words) In an era where the built environment is increasingly competing for the attention of discerning renters, visitors, and investors, the question is no longer simply what a development offers'but how it makes people feel. At South/City/SQ in Woolloongabba,…...
Luxury ‘Low Tox’ Townhouse Plans Filed for Burleigh
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (95+ words) Luxury boutique "low tox" residential infill plans have been filed for a tightly-held pocket of Burleigh Heads at the southern end of the Gold Coast. The proposal comprises a trio of three-bedroom townhouses, each rising four storeys and capped with…...
HDA Uplift Sought for $185m NSW Precinct 50 Years in the Making
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (119+ words) A Central Coast residential project is seeking upscaling into a $185-million mixed-use precinct and developer Darcy Smith told The Urban Developer that the vision had been half a century in the making. The builder/developer first bought land at the…...