Sunshine Coast development: Evans Long’s A1 office tower at Maroochydore city centre approved
An $18.8m complex with offices and a cafe and restaurant precinct is the latest development to get the green light in the Maroochydore city centre.
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Construction is set to start next month on a six-storey office tower after it was approved to be built in the Maroochydore city centre.
A1 will be developer Evans Long’s second building in the Maroochydore CBD after it opened Foundation Place last year.
The state government approved the plans in August for a five-level office block that will also feature some shops on the ground level and a rooftop terrace.
The $18.8m building was designed by Cottee Parker, which was the firm to also design Foundation Place and Sunshine Coast Council’s new city hall.
According to Evans Long, the building will offer what would be expected from an inner-city complex, with three levels of “ultra modern” architecturally designed office spaces and views of the council’s city hall.
A1 is expected to offer a cafe and restaurant precinct targeted at the “modern professional”.
It will be built on a 1173sq m lot at the junction of First Avenue and Gaba Lane.
It is the first city centre development to be approved since Walker Corporation was handed exclusive rights to market and develop the remaining land.
Coast-based company TF A1 Pty Ltd, of which Evans Long partner Dirk Long is listed as sole director, lodged the application with the state government in March.
The company is registered to Evans Built’s Mooloolaba office.
Mr Long said construction would start next month and the building would be complete by the middle of next year.
Application documents submitted to Economic Development Queensland showed it would reach 24.4m.
The building will feature 754sq m of space across each of the second, third and fourth floors, 420sq m of commercial space and four carparking spaces on the ground level and 30 carparking spaces on the first floor.
The building is expected to have about 300 people in it daily, meaning there will slightly less than 10 people for each of the 34 carparking spaces.
Expressions of interest are open for commercial opportunities.
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