The CBD skyline will be transformed before the decade is out as developers move ahead with the construction of new apartment buildings across the city.
Developers are seeking to capitalise on the growing industrial facilities shortage, delivering some of the most significant warehousing construction projects and driving the creation of large new estates.
Punters will be able to shop until they drop this Christmas with no fewer than eight new major shopping centre and showroom projects in Perth due to be completed before the year is out.
Western Australia’s economic prosperity is generating unprecedented levels of building activity across public and private sector projects, with no shortage of developments in the planning phase.
With the ink drying on SAS Global’s $61 million deal to buy the OneSteel site in North Fremantle, neighbouring McCabe Street joint-venture developer Australian Finance Group Ltd is focused on raising capital for its own acquisition.
It sits alongside fellow Leighton Beach icons Dingo Flour and Matilda Bay Brewery on rare earth between the Swan River and the Indian Ocean, but the OneSteel site looks set to leave its industrial past behind.
State and federal governments’ focus on climate change policy initiatives is expected to lift the prospects of a range of Western Australian businesses dealing with environmental products in coming years.
Despite having received Western Australian Planning Commission approval more than four years ago, the Riverside Pier Hotel project at Barrack Square has yet to get off the ground due to a failure to secure a stage two building licence.
Perth’s tallest office building will get a splash of neon colour next month following a deal signed last week with Central Park tenant St George Bank to take on the lucrative signage rights.
The state government’s decision to introduce a new voting system for local government elections last month has been criticised by the Western Australian Local Government Association.
They occupy some of the most pristine coastal blocks in Western Australia, and so attract thousands of tourists and semi-permanent residents every year to park a caravan, pitch a tent or rent a cabin.
The Sarich family’s Cape Bouvard Investments Pty Ltd has made further investments in Mandurah, securing 9.9 hectares of land at 20 Hungerford Avenue Halls Head last week for $22.5 million.
The Singaporean owners of Scarborough’s iconic Rendezvous Observation City want to redevelop the 18-storey tower into a luxury residential apartment block in a $100 million plan that includes a new, eight-level, five-star hotel on the site.
The owners of the most talked about sculpture in the South West, Laurance Wines, will appeal the Shire of Busselton’s final decision to refuse planning consent for the winery’s ‘chick on a stick’.
Lengthy construction timetables in the CBD have led to an increase in the number of tenants seeking rentals in mid-sized office developments in West Perth and fringe city areas.
