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_FEDERATION SQUARE
Spied in January at Fed. Square in Melbourne - busy and not so busy; but a great meeting hub asset for the City.
_News_
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_YOUTH FOYER – HOLMESGLEN AND BROADMEADOWS
The Victorian Government made an election commitment to invest $30.1 million over three years to establish three purpose-built separately located youth foyers, the first of which was to be the Broadmeadows project. We reported previously about the imminent construction of...
_SHAKESPHERE GROVE, ST KILDA
The most rewarding part of any project is seeing it come to fruition. Collie provided town planning services in relation to a mixed use project on a prominent site on Shakespeare Grove in St Kilda. Collie played a key role...
_URBANIZED
A group from Collie recently attended a film called ‘Urbanized’, which was the final installment in a design trilogy shown at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). With an estimated 75 per cent of the world’s population based...
_UDIA (VICTORIA) 2012 AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE
Collie would like to congratulate Stockland for winning the Master Planned Development award, for Highlands, Craigieburn, at the UDIA (Victoria) 2012 Awards for Excellence. Collie is pleased to be the planning consultant for the project. Enquiries: Michael Collie (mjsc@colliepl.com.au)
_MOBILE WHOPPER
Coventry Street in Southbank was closed recently for four days while a massive (450 tons capacity, we are told) mobile crane was installed to remove a construction crane from OVER the top of a new 23-story building. It was the...
_Office Holiday Closure
The Collie office will be closing for the holidays on Friday 21 December 2012 (but don’t call after midday because we will be out celebrating the end of the year) and will reopen on Monday 7 January 2013.
_LOOKING AFTER EDGARS CREEK: COBURG HILL RECOGNISED FOR ITS WATER SENSITIVE URBAN DESIGN
Regular readers of the Collie latest news will know that Collie has been closely involved in the rezoning, master planning and redevelopment of 'Coburg Hill' (the former Kodak Australasia site) which is located in Coburg North approximately nine kilometres north...
_DEVELOPMENT PLAN APPROVED FOR SWAN HILL
Collie is pleased to announce the recent approval of the Tower Hill Development Plan by Swan Hill Rural City Council. Tower Hill is located about 1.7 kilometres from the Swan Hill town centre and the master plan was prepared by...
_ARE WE IN DANGER OF GIVING URBAN RENEWAL A BAD NAME?
Collie recently attended a VPELA event held at Places Victoria that discussed the benefits of urban renewal and why it is important for all Victorians. Urban renewal has obviously been a hot topic in recent times with the continued negative...