Old retirement village, student housing to be transformed into apartment block
A former retirement home complex home in Upper Mount Gravatt, now used for student living, will be completely transformed with close to 200 units and shops.
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A FORMER retirement home in Upper Mount Gravatt will be transformed into a multistage apartment block with 179 dwellings.
Developer Stosco Projects lodged plans for the three-stage residential complex at 110 Klumpp Rd in June 2017.
And after three years of correspondence and revisals, Brisbane City Council approved the project, subject to heavy conditions, on July 3.
The site was originally a retirement village and is now being used for student accommodation, housing about 70 beds.
Planning documents reveal the complex will cover about 8834sq m, with 179 dwellings and a shop outlet to be built over the course of development.
Stage one involves the construction of 80 units.
In development documents, Town planner Tam Dang Planning claims there is great interest in the Upper Mount Gravatt area.
“(The area) has been undergoing significant evolution with the emergence of high and medium density infill development reflecting the rejuvenated Garden City shopping centre and the suburb’s association with/proximity to Griffith University,” the documents read.
The project’s approval comes off the back of several developments in the Mount Gravatt area.
Plans for a five-storey apartment block on Ventura St, less than half a kilometre from Westfield Garden City, were lodged to the council in April.
Two post-1946 dwelling houses on the site will be demolished to make room for the building.
The developers of an apartment complex on Pickworth St announced the project would be delayed because of the coronavirus.