Billion-dollar hopes sought for Perth's Barangaroo

Andrea DixonSeptember 4, 2011

The Western Australian government has offered a massive parcel of prime Perth CBD property for sale with hopes that it will realise more than $1 billion.

Expressions of interest for the 5.2-hectare riverfront site have been called internationally, with the government amalgamating many holdings into a single package to sell to one buyer.

It is being touted as the West’s version of Barangaroo in Sydney.

“It will be sold to a single buyer, but that is likely to be a consortium of developers,” says WA Planning Minister John Day.

According to the minister, the site will be developed into low-level office buildings, a retail strip that will connect the CBD to the Northbridge entertainment precinct, residential apartments and a prestige hotel.

“We need to bring more people to live in the Perth CBDm so there should be a large residential component,” he says.

Local interest is expected from Brookfield Multiplex, Lend Lease and Mirvac, and Singapore’s Fraser Group and cashed-up Dutch and Canadian superfunds, which already have a strong presence in Perth, are expected to put their feelers out.

Known as the Perth City Link project, it is the WA’s largest development plan. It will include the sinking of the inner-city rail line to build residential apartments overhead. The state will also pick up the cost of creating a public square within the project.

The Perth City Link is part of the large-scale redevelopment of the waterfront that includes the Riverside project near the city causeway.

Expressions of interest close in November.

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