a lot of fallacies about Australia in general in this thread.
but anyhow, I'd actually like to see an office
tower built in Melbourne. There's about 150,000sqm U/C in the central city at the moment, but 95% of it all 'groundscrapers' - it's all short and stumpy as tenants are all demanding huge floorplates rather than spreading themselves over multiple smaller floors.
This is your typical commercial development going on right now - NAB's going to be consolidating 3 sites into here and will only have 3 sites when complete:
And another example of what's going on - Macquarie Bank's new Melbourne site
RATHER than this: most recent office proposal, but no-one's really hopefull it'll get up because it will have tiny floorplates, 220m 56 Levels.
^ and it's as boring as batshit anyhow.
This proposal has been around for 3 years and still not got a tenant, there's been many leasing deals done in Docklands / elsewhere in groundscapers before this went on the hunt for a prime tenant to kick off construction... 206m