The country’s biggest office landlord, ASX-listed Dexus, has won planning approval for its $2.1 billion transformation of Brisbane's Eagle Street Pier and Waterfront Place precinct into an office and leisure destination.

Waterfront Brisbane, as it will be known, is the latest in a series of big-ticket projects either to be announced or begin construction in the east coast capitals over the past two weeks, as the CBD development market stirs back into action.