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Frasers gets $10bn shot in the arm to expand growth pipeline 
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Frasers Property Australia chief executive Rod Fehring. Picture: Sam Mooy Source: News Corp Australia 
[b]The Singaporean parent of Frasers Property Australia has given its local arm a mandate to pursue substantial growth, with the group expecting to manage an extra $10 billion worth of property over the next five years.[/b] 
Frasers Property Australia chief executive Rod Fehring said the company expected to increase the $20bn worth of property owned by Frasers or its Singaporean-based trusts by 5 to 10 per cent a year. 
“If you extrapolate that it takes you to about $30bn in that five-year period, so an extra $10bn than we’ve currently got,” Mr Fehring told The Australian. 
“How that gets distributed between hospitality, between retail, between office and (other asset classes) is going to be driven by which sector is generating the best returns,” he said. 
The Singapore-listed Frasers Centrepoint — controlled by Thai tycoon Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi — last year completed a $2.6bn takeover of the listed Australand Property Group. 
Australand last month rebranded to Frasers Property Australia and completed its integration with Frasers’ already existing local arm, giving the combined entity a value of about $4.6bn. “It brings (Australand) into a group which is interested in and has the capital available to be able to grow and has the appetite for growth in retail in hospitality and in commercial. We are also strong in industrial so that gives you a very powerful business model,” Mr Fehring said 
Mr Fehring reiterated its strategy to develop assets and then sell them into funds controlled by its parent. 
It would retain management of the assets and then redeploy the capital into new development or investment opportunities. 
Retail is one area Mr Fehring has earmarked for growth, with the group hoping to boost its portfolio from about $300 million to $1bn in the next three to five years. 
The Australian can reveal that the group has created a new retail division, to be led by Peri Macdonald, which will be managed separately from the rest of the commercial portfolio. 
Mr Fehring noted that Frasers had significant retail holdings globally, in Singapore through its listed REIT and also in Thailand. 
“When you look at our book in Australia, retail has been developed as an adjunct primarily driven by our residential business,” he said. “When you put them all together they actually add up to quite a lot when they are fully matured.” 
The group may look to eventually sell some of its retail holdings into funds controlled by its parent. 
Mr Fehring said that the group would look to increase its development of masterplanned communities that include retail centres. 
In the pipeline is a project in Sydney’s Edmondson Park, to include a 36,000sq m retail centre and 1400 residential dwellings, while Melbourne’s Burwood brickworks site will have a 12,000sq m centre with 900 homes. 
“That is the flavour of what the market is looking for and what governments are encouraging from a planning point of view, and from our skill sets that’s what we are strong in. We think it's a major trend moving forward,” he said.
	 
	
	
	
	
 
 
	
	
	
		
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		Home buyers look offshore for funds 
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Frasers Property Australia chief executive Rod Fehring. Picture: Sam Mooy Source: News Corp Australia 
[b]Off-the-plan home buyers are increasingly using alternative ways to settle if they can’t secure funding from the major banks, with more seeking finance from offshore institutions, according to Rod Fehring, chief executive of apartment developer Frasers Property Australia.[/b] 
Mr Fehring said Frasers, which had $1.5 billion worth of contracts exchanged that were yet to settle, was not concerned that stronger regulations on property lending would force buyers to walk away from their purchase. 
Westpac chief economist Bill Evans last week warned that many who bought off-the-plan two years ago would struggle to settle when the project was completed because of harsher lending regulations being applied by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority. 
But Mr Fehring said people were instead intent on going outside the big four banks, with more securing a mortgage through banks that were based overseas. 
“We are seeing people avail themselves of other sources of funding. A lot of the prudential requirements that have been applied to the four main banks do not necessarily apply to offshore banks and they do not necessarily apply to the smaller onshore banks,” Mr Fehring told The Australian. 
“Most of our contracts on hand were sold a year to two years ago and they are sitting on anywhere between 10 per cent and 23 per cent capital gain by virtue of the strength of what has happened in the Australian residential markets,” he said. 
“The question is if you’ve got $60,000 to $80,000 invested in a deposit would you walk away from that on a $600,000 property when you are sitting on a $100,000 capital gain? No, you would not. You will find that you can finance it.” 
Mr Fehring was formerly of the old listed developer Australand, which was last year taken over by Singapore’s Frasers Centrepoint in a $2.6 billion deal. 
The $4.6bn group is developing the $2bn Central Park project in inner Sydney, while also having active projects in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth. 
Mr Fehring warned not to assume that buyers would “act as a flock” if they had initial trouble attaining finance. “There are all sorts of people involved and they make their own arrangements,’’ Mr Fehring said. 
“Some are getting parental support (as) first-home buyers, some have got other assets that they are drawing on, some are borrowing on the basis that, because they have got the capital gain, the valuation is coming in well above what they paid a deposit on.” But he did believe that the new regulations would deter many new investors, and said there had been an increase in interest from owner-occupiers and even first-home buyers. 
“We are seeing a relatively high proportion of first-home buyers surprisingly, which is the reverse of what you would (expect). Normally first-home buyers would run at 5-10 per cent of your sales; we are seeing that in the 15-20 per cent (range) over the past 12 months.” 
His remarks come as auctions in the first spring “Super Saturday” improved from last week, despite signs that the market is slowing. 
With a September record of 2390 homes put under the hammer during the week, 74.2 per cent of auctioned homes in Sydney found a buyer, while Melbourne posted clearance rates of 73.3 per cent. 
Mr Fehring said he did not expect to see much further price growth in Sydney, while Brisbane would improve. 
He said there were signs of an apartment oversupply in the Melbourne CBD, while there was also overbuilding of detached homes in the northern growth corridor.
	 
	
	
	
	
 
 
	
	
	
		
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		Frasers  Property  Australia  grows  retail  business   New retail business unit to focus on retail opportunities Sydney  –  2  October  2015  –  Frasers  Property  Australia,  a  member  of  Singapore  Exchange mainboard-listed  Frasers  Centrepoint  Limited  (“FCL”),  is  launching  a  new  retail  business  unit, capitalising on its successes in creating quality retail developments.  Frasers  Property  Australia,  which  adopted  FCL’s  international  Frasers  Property  brand  in August  2015,  has  built  up a  strong track  record  of  delivering  high  quality  neighbourhood  retail centres  that  meet  the  specific  needs  of  local  communities.  Frasers  Property  Australia’s  new focus  on  retail  development  will  leverage  both  its  strong  local  residential  development  base, and the retail expertise of FCL.  The  creation  of  a  separate  retail  business  unit  is  a  new  initiative  under  the  leadership  of Frasers  Property  Australia’s  new  CEO  Rod  Fehring,  who  took  over  the  reins  in  August  2015. Peri Macdonald will head up the retail business unit, reporting directly to Mr Fehring. “We  see  a  significant  opportunity  to  build  on  our  existing  expertise  to  undertake  more  mixeduse  development  in  which  retail  and  residential  are  complementary  components.  Our  retail business  will  seek  to  capitalise  on  the  synergies  between  residential  and  retail  that  we  naturally achieve in  the  mixed-use  sector.  Central  Park  and  The  Ponds are both excellent  examples of retail  enhancing  and  enabling  successful  communities,  and  this  is  clearly  one  of  Frasers Property’s strengths in Australia,” said Mr Fehring.   “The  Edmondson  Park  Town  Centre  in  western  Sydney,  for  which  we  recently  won  the development rights, will showcase our expertise and enlarge our retail portfolio,” he added. This  expansion  of  Frasers  Property  Australia’s  business  segments  is  in  line  with  FCL’s  growth strategies  of  achieving  balanced  growth  across  property  segments  to  increase  the  proportion of  income  contribution  from  recurring  sources,  as  well  as  leveraging  its  REIT  platforms  for capital  recycling  and  as  a  source  of  fee  revenue.   Assets  developed  in  Australia  –  including retail  assets  –  may  be  sold  into  one  of  the  Group’s  REITs,  releasing  capital  for  re-deployment into  new  development  or  investment  opportunities.   In  the  nine  years  since  FCL  listed  its  first REIT  in  2006,  FCL  has  grown  its  total  assets  almost  four-fold  from  S$6.1  billion  as  at  30 September  2006  to  S$23.1 billion 1as at 30 June 2015.  
“We  are  targeting  to  grow  our  retail  portfolio  from  $300  million  to $1  billion  in the  next  three  to five  years.    This  is  an  ambitious  goal  to  grow  and  expand  in  tandem  with  FCL’s  targets  for growth  and  expansion,  and  as  with  all  targets,  are  subject  to  various factors  including  market conditions.    Nevertheless  we  believe  that  we  are  in  a  good  position  to  achieve  our  target.   Frasers  Property  Australia  is  well  set  up  for  it,  plus  our  ambition  to  grow  the  retail  business  is empowered by FCL’s retail expertise, global footprint and business model,” said Mr Fehring. 
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		 (02-10-2015, 06:56 PM)thor666 Wrote:  Frasers  Property  Australia  grows  retail  business   New retail business unit to focus on retail opportunities Sydney  –  2  October  2015  –  Frasers  Property  Australia,  a  member  of  Singapore  Exchange mainboard-listed  Frasers  Centrepoint  Limited  (“FCL”),  is  launching  a  new  retail  business  unit, capitalising on its successes in creating quality retail developments.  Frasers  Property  Australia,  which  adopted  FCL’s  international  Frasers  Property  brand  in August  2015,  has  built  up a  strong track  record  of  delivering  high  quality  neighbourhood  retail centres  that  meet  the  specific  needs  of  local  communities.  Frasers  Property  Australia’s  new focus  on  retail  development  will  leverage  both  its  strong  local  residential  development  base, and the retail expertise of FCL.  The  creation  of  a  separate  retail  business  unit  is  a  new  initiative  under  the  leadership  of Frasers  Property  Australia’s  new  CEO  Rod  Fehring,  who  took  over  the  reins  in  August  2015. Peri Macdonald will head up the retail business unit, reporting directly to Mr Fehring. “We  see  a  significant  opportunity  to  build  on  our  existing  expertise  to  undertake  more  mixeduse  development  in  which  retail  and  residential  are  complementary  components.  Our  retail business  will  seek  to  capitalise  on  the  synergies  between  residential  and  retail  that  we  naturally achieve in  the  mixed-use  sector.  Central  Park  and  The  Ponds are both excellent  examples of retail  enhancing  and  enabling  successful  communities,  and  this  is  clearly  one  of  Frasers Property’s strengths in Australia,” said Mr Fehring.   “The  Edmondson  Park  Town  Centre  in  western  Sydney,  for  which  we  recently  won  the development rights, will showcase our expertise and enlarge our retail portfolio,” he added. This  expansion  of  Frasers  Property  Australia’s  business  segments  is  in  line  with  FCL’s  growth strategies  of  achieving  balanced  growth  across  property  segments  to  increase  the  proportion of  income  contribution  from  recurring  sources,  as  well  as  leveraging  its  REIT  platforms  for capital  recycling  and  as  a  source  of  fee  revenue.   Assets  developed  in  Australia  –  including retail  assets  –  may  be  sold  into  one  of  the  Group’s  REITs,  releasing  capital  for  re-deployment into  new  development  or  investment  opportunities.   In  the  nine  years  since  FCL  listed  its  first REIT  in  2006,  FCL  has  grown  its  total  assets  almost  four-fold  from  S$6.1  billion  as  at  30 September  2006  to  S$23.1 billion 1as at 30 June 2015.  
 
“We  are  targeting  to  grow  our  retail  portfolio  from  $300  million  to $1  billion  in the  next  three  to five  years.    This  is  an  ambitious  goal  to  grow  and  expand  in  tandem  with  FCL’s  targets  for growth  and  expansion,  and  as  with  all  targets,  are  subject  to  various factors  including  market conditions.    Nevertheless  we  believe  that  we  are  in  a  good  position  to  achieve  our  target.   Frasers  Property  Australia  is  well  set  up  for  it,  plus  our  ambition  to  grow  the  retail  business  is empowered by FCL’s retail expertise, global footprint and business model,” said Mr Fehring.  
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The original interview was done on 28 Sept in The Australian:
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Sydney's $2 billion Central Park will get two more towers
 
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by Su-Lin Tan 
Property developers, Frasers Property Australia and Sekisui House Australia are poised to complete its $2 billion urban village Central Park in Sydney's inner city Chippendale after they received approval to build the last two towers for the precinct for $520 million. 
The NSW government approved plans for the developers to build two mixed-use towers called "DUO" on the corner of Broadway and Abercrombie streets, Sydney. 
The eastern tower will have 313 apartments, from one-bedroom suites to three-bedroom, dual-key apartments, while the western tower will have 48 luxury apartments called the "DUO Limited Edition" on levels 11 to 16. 
The apartments, designed by Foster + Partners, will be released for sale in late November. 
 
"DUO will offer the next opportunity to buy into the much sought after Central Park precinct. It will provide residents with a balance of high-end lifestyle offerings, innovative design and luxury finishes," Central Park's project director Mick Caddey said. 
"Resort-style recreational facilities complete what will be an extension of this inner-city lifestyle." 
The development will also include a 300-room hotel, ground floor retail, 5500-square-metres of commercial space, a large childcare centre for 90 children and the refurbished Australian Hotel. 
$520 million is the estimated end value of DUO, comprising $350 million in residential apartments, $120 million for the hotel and $50 million in retail, commercial and childcare properties. 
 
 
Frasers Property Australia bought the sprawling 6-hectare Central Park site from the Foster's Group in 2007 and, with Sekisui House, has turned it into a mixed-use urban development with residential, office and retail properties. 
It is also fast becoming an art precinct, anchored by the Kensington Street creative thoroughfare. 
Other recent additions in the Central Park precinct include the renovated boutique hotel, the Old Clare Hotel. 
Frasers Property Australia is the new name for Australand which was purchased by Singapore-listed Frasers Centrepoint Limited last year.
	 
	
	
	
	
 
 
	
	
	
		
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		This is a new area in which ALZ under capland failed to explore and Towkay has certainly mandated his Generals to build a pipeline of neighbourhood malls within ALZ's township developments Down Under 
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Neighbourhood shopping centre sales jump 24pc to more than $1.1b
 
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Record low funding costs and the hunt for yield has seen a 24 per cent increase in the value of transactions for neighbourhood shopping centres around Australia. 
Just over $1.1 billion worth of neighbourhood centres changed hands in the first three quarters of this year, up from $894.9 million over the same time last year, according to CBRE. 
The agency is now predicting further rises in price and volumes. 
"The current market for retail investments is the strongest we have seen for over a decade," CBRE's national director of retail investments Peter Rossi said. 
[img=620x0]http://www.afr.com/content/dam/images/g/k/2/d/r/d/image.imgtype.afrArticleInline.620x0.png/1444104411431.png[/img]Neighbourhood shopping centre sales jumped 24pc to more than $1.1bn so far this year. 
He expects the volume of neighbourhood shopping centre sales to exceed the $1.6 billion recorded for the full 2014 calendar year. 
"Neighbourhood centres are being actively targeted, with private investors leading the market. The subregional market is also being hotly pursued by institutional buyers chasing scale in terms of investment," Mr Rossi said. 
In the subregional shopping centre market, $1.9 billion in property traded in the first three quarters up 58 per cent on the previous corresponding period. 
CBRE's head of research for Australia Stephen McNabb said the high level of activity had tightened yields by about 50 to 60 basis points nationally in the 12 months to September 2015 and that further tightening is expected. 
 
 
Stand out transactions include the sale of Culburra Beach Woolworths on the state's south coast, which recently traded through CBRE on a yield of just 4.97 per cent. 
CBRE's Victorian retail investment team lead by Justin Dowers and Mark Wizel has seen a run of record breaking deals pushing yields well under 6 per cent. 
In April they sold Maroondah Village Shopping Centre in North Croydon, which was traded on a yield of just 5.4 per cent. 
"There has been a strong uplift in sales activity in the subregional and neighbourhood sectors with investors attracted by the wider yield spread offered by these sectors," Mr McNabb said. 
 
Private groups such as Primewest have been keen investors. 
"We invest in neighbourhood centres because they are very good defensive, long-term assets," Primewest director John Bond said. 
CBRE have noted that buyers were increasingly looking outside their home markets at interstate opportunities in the hunt for assets. 
"There are also a number of domestic and international groups seeking portfolios to get critical mass in order to support operational platforms," Mr Rossi added. 
 
The interest in the neighbourhood sector has also translated to considerable development activity. 
CBRE data records about 130,000 square metres of neighbourhood shopping centre supply is expected to be completed this year. 
Even higher levels of development are expected in in the three years following amounting to roughly 550,000 square metres.
	 
	
	
	
	
 
 
	
	
	
		
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Trains and buses are just the ticket
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Newhomes: We look at three of the best developments near public transport 
Never underestimate the lure of good public transport when choosing where to live.
Apartments close to train stations continue to attract strong interest. In North Ryde, Frasers Property Australia's newest masterplanned community is proving particularly popular. 
Since it hit the market, Centrale has received more than 3500 registrations of interest. 
Nigel Edgar, Frasers' NSW residential division general manager, says the area's excellent connectivity is resonating with investors, owner-occupiers and young professionals. 
Centrale will have North Ryde train station at its doorstep and will be just one stop from Chatswood, two stops from Macquarie Centre and 13 kilometres from the Sydney CBD. 
Edgar says he isn't surprised by the huge response because the "low-maintenance apartments present an affordable and attainable opportunity to buy or invest in a well-integrated masterplanned community". 
Two suburbs away in Eastwood, SHMH Developments is working on Vantage. The 57 apartments will be either one or two bedrooms, all with parking, storage and lift access. 
Vantage is about two blocks from Eastwood train station. 
"With the road congestion, the train line is seen as a tremendous asset for any location," says Peter Walsh, managing director of Ray White Projects, which is marketing Vantage. Inquiry has been very strong for the two-bedroom apartments. "The larger areas are conducive to smaller families and young couples." 
In Parramatta, construction of Starryland's Promenade No.2 will start in December and is expected to be completed in early 2018. It will not only have rail transport nearby but also buses and the Parramatta ferry. Designed by Turner Design, the buildings will feature unique bronzed lantern structures crowning their exteriors. 
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Centrale 
1-17 Delhi Road, North Ryde 
One-beds 50-58 square metres, $550,000+ 
Two-beds 70-84 square metres, $770,000+ 
Three-beds 100-118 square metres, $1,025,000+ 
Strata levies From $790 a quarter 
Due for completion Late 2017 
Agent Frasers Property Australia, 13 38 38; centraleapartments.com.au 
In a prime central location in the North Ryde urban activation precinct, Centrale is promising to put its residents close to everything. As well as being able to jump on a train to Chatswood or the city, future residents at Centrale will be linked via a pedestrian and cycleway bridge to a neighbouring nine-hectare masterplanned development known as Lachlan's Line. 
Lachlan's Line will feature shops, cafes, playgrounds and parks. 
Comprising four buildings, Centrale will incorporate 380 apartments in a mix of one, two and three-bedroom configurations. Each will feature open-plan interiors. Many will deliver views of the Sydney city skyline, Chatswood and beyond. 
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Promenade No.2 
2 Morton Street, Parramatta 
One-beds 50-60 square metres, $518,000+ 
Two-beds 70-85 square metres, $685,000+ 
Strata levies From $540 a quarter 
Due for completion 2018 
Agent CBRE, 1800 839 883; promenadeliving.com.au 
They say life is a beach. However, river living can be twice as nice. On the banks of the Parramatta River, Promenade No.2 offers river and city views, green landscapes and the gentle background sound of flowing water. 
When completed, the development will have 505 apartments, of which 198 are now being released. 
The buildings in this release range from five to eight storeys and have been designed by Turner Studios. 
For those really desiring the feel of sand underfoot, there will be an artificial beach and water fountain created on the banks of the river. 
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Vantage 
3-5 Trelawney Street, Eastwood 
One-beds 52-60 square metres, $649,000+ 
Two-beds 83-100 square metres, $929,000+ 
Strata levies From $675 a quarter 
Due for completion Early 2017 
Agent Ray White Projects, 1300 363 867; vantageeastwood.com.au 
Schools, shops and parks will all be close at hand in SHMH Developments' new Vantage apartments. 
Residents will have the Eastwood Town Centre on their doorstop, which boasts supermarkets, specialty grocers, restaurants and cafes. 
For walking, running or just hanging out enjoying nature there is nearby Glen Reserve or Eastwood Park. 
When it comes to schools, there's a host in the vicinity, including Epping Boys High, Eastwood Public school, St Kevin's Catholic Primary School and Marist College Eastwood. Macquarie University is also a short train ride away. 
The apartments will feature oak floors, stone benchtops and Miele appliances.
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		 (11-07-2015, 08:36 PM)greengiraffe Wrote:  http://herstonquarter.com.au/ 
 
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Australand, Lend Lease, Stockland vie for Herston Quarter project 
THE AUSTRALIAN JULY 11, 2015 12:00AM 
 
Ben Wilmot 
 
Commercial Property Editor 
Sydney 
Pitt and Trad 
Treasurer Curtis Pitt and Brisbane Central MP Grace Grace at the Royal Brisbane Hospital. Picture: Annette Dew. Source: News Corp Australia 
 
The Queensland government yesterday short-listed three proponents to develop a health precinct adjoining the Royal Brisbane Hospital at Herston, with the trio to now develop detailed plans for the key precinct. 
 
Treasurer Curtis Pitt yesterday announced Singapore-owned Australand, Lend Lease/Trinity Health and Stockland as the short-listed proponents for the Herston Quarter project. 
 
The Australian revealed last month that the Queensland government had reopened the door to the development of the Brisbane site, and at the time the field was reported to include Australand, Brookfield Multiplex, Lend Lease and Grocon. Since the election of Labor in January the process has been on hold. The government is now focused on developing a health and biomedical precinct along with a residential and retail zone on the site, which is adjacent to Lend Lease’s $2.9 billion redevelopment of the Brisbane Showgrounds precinct. 
 
The interest of the three groups in the project illustrates the growing importance of health work to property companies, and the Palaszczuk government says they have been told health-related activities will be the focus. 
 
“That could include elements such as biomedical research and a mix of public and private hospital facilities,” Mr Pitt said. 
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The Palaszczuk Government has launched the final stage of a competitive bid process to deliver a world-class health and commercial precinct adjoining the Royal Brisbane and Women s Hospital (RBWH) at Herston. 
Acting Premier Curtis Pitt today invited shortlisted proponents to submit their detailed proposals to develop an innovative master planned health, residential and retail precinct known as the Herston Quarter.
Mr Pitt said the relocation of children s health services from the Royal Children s Hospital presented a unique opportunity to develop the site and generate long-term health and employment opportunities for Queenslanders. 
The Palaszczuk Government is partnering with the private sector to create jobs and deliver a leading health and knowledge precinct, generating long term economic and investment benefits for the state, he said. 
The Herston Quarter is a prime example of this and we re delighted to be working with the shortlisted proponents to progress this exciting development opportunity. 
Mr Pitt said shortlisted proponents would be asked to submit proposals that capitalise on the site s prime inner-city location and complement the adjacent world-class health and knowledge institutions. 
The Government is engaging in a competitive bid process with proponents in close consultation with key health stakeholders, including Metro North Hospital and Health Service, to ensure future strategic health needs are considered, he said. 
That could include elements such as biomedical research, a mix of private hospital facilities, professional suites and supporting retail and residential space for doctors, nurses, family and friends visiting patients at the nearby RBWH. 
The shortlisted proponents for this unique opportunity are Frasers Property (Formerly known as Australand) with Australian Unity and Lend Lease with Trinity Health. Stockland has withdrawn from the RFP process. 
Health Minister Cameron Dick said the State Government was committed to ensuring the health needs of community were met and the Herston Quarter project supports public health, research and educational objectives of the wider Herston Health Precinct. 
This site s proximity to the CBD and the established Herston Health Precinct provides enormous potential to complement and enhance the adjacent public health, research and educational facilities, Mr Dick said. 
This redevelopment will support the Palaszczuk Government s Advance Queensland program through the inclusion of research, education, biomedical and innovation-related uses to create the knowledge-based jobs of the future. 
Member for Brisbane Central Grace Grace said the Herston site represented an outstanding opportunity to deliver a master planned health-related development, with residential and retail elements to complement and enhance Brisbane s inner north. 
This Government is working to ensure that the views of people in the area are taken into account, she said. 
This development will provide long term community benefits through access to new public spaces, and retail and commercial offerings, and I want to ensure community standards and expectations are considered. 
Shortlisted proponents will have until 12pm on Monday, 14 March 2016 to submit detailed proposals for the Herston Quarter redevelopment to the State Government for evaluation. 
The successful proponent expected to be announced in mid-2016.
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		I continue to maintain that FCL-ALZ's ind prop division has been hugely unappreciated by the market. A silly strategic move by Capland and lackof headway made by City Dev Down Under could have confused the broad mkt thinking that FCL have overpaid for ALZ in a landmark deal last year... 
http://www.valuebuddies.com/thread-5719-...#pid120654
FCL has signalled its intention to let the division fly on its own and it could another beginning of a long journey to systematically unlock value over time...
 
Cache Reit has also announced another acquisition Down Under last week...
	  
	
	
	
	
 
 
	 
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