Hyatt Centric circling South Yarra headlines Stonnington's development news

Hyatt Centric circling South Yarra headlines Stonnington's development news
Mark BaljakAugust 3, 2018

Developer Alfasi Group's intended hotel development at 2-10 River Street looks to have advanced with Hyatt Centric earmarked for the project.

Current planning documents and renders note Hyatt Centric as the operator of the intended 10 storey hotel development design by Carr Architecture. 153 keys are slated for the mid-rise development which is situated behind The Como Centre.

Alfasi Group picked up the 2,116 square metre commercially zoned site for $18 million during 2017. If Hyatt Hotels Corporation ratifies the South Yarra location, it will be the second Hyatt Centric in Melbourne behind the recently announced CBD location which will carry 278 guestrooms and suites.

Hyatt Centric circling South Yarra headlines Stonnington's development news
Alfasi River Street development. Image: Carr Architecture

Little Projects is back in the apartment game with a planning application on Prahran's Grattan Street.

After divesting itself of an approved development site at 89 Lorimer Street and choosing not to proceed with South Yarra's 38-40 Claremont Street, the developer is chasing approval for a development at 17-22 Grattan Street. Currently Little Projects only have Hedgeley within Malvern East at construction.

The unique Plus Architecture-designed scheme includes 55 apartments over 7 levels, split between 19 single, 30 double and 6 triple bedroom dwellings.

Hyatt Centric circling South Yarra headlines Stonnington's development news
Little Projects' Prahran development. Image: Plus Architecture

Also in Prahran, a site on Porter Street has been earmarked for a commercial reincarnation.

C.Kairouz Architects has designed a boutique 9 level commercial building that would replace a current Bridgestone dealership. Expected is a bulging, serrated facade dominated by a brick exterior, plus an adjacent pocket park.

56-58 Porter Street is designed to include approximately 4,200 square metres of commercial space above three basement levels. The $11 million build was lodged with Stonnington during June and is backed by entity Seventeenth Android Pty Ltd.

Hyatt Centric circling South Yarra headlines Stonnington's development news
Porter Street's new purpose. Image: C.Kairouz Architects

Malvern Road's transformation into a low-rise apartment strips roll on, this time in the form of 1757-1767 Malvern Road, Glen Iris.

1757 Malvern Road Pty Ltd has utilised Cera Stribley Architects to come up with a tri-level apartment block aimed primarily at owner occupiers. 9 double and 20 triple bedroom apartments are included within the proposal, as are 57 car spaces.

1757-1767 Malvern Road is the latest in a string of dozens of low-rise apartment developments that have proliferated along the thoroughfare in recent years. There are 30 plus apartment developments that are now active within the Urban.com.au Project Database along the Malvern Road corridor.

Hyatt Centric circling South Yarra headlines Stonnington's development news
Malvern Road's latest. Image: Cera Stribley Architects

Additional residential projects at 1755 Malvern Road, Glen Iris and 1399-1401 Dandenong Road, Malvern East are also set to join the Urban.com.au Project Database shortly. All in all Urban.com.au is keeping tabs on 122 residential projects within City of Stonnington, in addition to a handful of commercial developments.

2-10 River Street aside City of Stonnington is also seeing a number of hotels in progress, including Aloft Chapel Street, MGallery by Sofitel and South Yarra's 35-41 Claremont Street.

Mark Baljak

Mark Baljak was a co-founder of Urban.com.au. He passed away on Thursday 8th of November 2018 after a battle with cancer. He was 37. Mark was a keen traveller, having visited all six permanently-inhabited continents and had a love of craft beer. One of his biggest passions was observing the change that has occurred in Melbourne over the past two decades. In that time he built an enormous library of photos, all taken by him, which tracked the progress of construction on building sites from across metropolitan Melbourne.

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