High apartment tower proposed for Fairfield
Two towers could go up on a popular Fairfield Street, adding apartments, a medical centre and a pharmacy.
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Fairfield’s Ware St could be home to two of its tallest towers yet, provided a development application gains approval.
The towers — for 25 to 35 Ware St, where N.B. Furniture currently operates — would stand 12- and nine-storeys tall, on a street predominantly characterised by double-storey shop fronts.
They would be next door to the only other mixed development on the block; Fairfield Towers, a 10-storey building featuring apartments and businesses.
Combined, the properties offer a glimpse into the potential future of the streets encircling the city centre, where a 39-metre height limit was introduced six years ago.
The tallest of the two towers measures 37-metres in height.
The Fairfield Local Planning Panel will ultimately decide if the proposal is approved, but in May 2018, the four-member panel approved a comparable version of these plans.
The new plans make room for 65 units — 11 more than originally pitched — by rearranging the internal layout of the towers.
From floors two to 12, the towers would feature a mix of one, two and three-bedroom apartments.
Most of the ground and first floors would be occupied by a pharmacy, planning documents reveal, which is said to compliment the other tenant, a medical centre.
Ware St is already home to a pharmacy and medical centre.
Next door, working from the shopfronts of Fairfield Tower, are Elias Pharmacy and Ware St Medical and Dental Centre.
The towers will feature three levels of basement parking offering space for 124 cars.
The location is close to public transport and amenities.
Fairfield train station can be seen from the block’s corner, while Neeta City shopping centre is a couple of streets over.
The properties were last listed for sale in 2014, according to real estate site Domain.
At the time, 25 to 31 Ware St sold for $2m, while 33 to 35 sold for $2.5m.
It is estimated a further $23.4m will be spent on development costs.
This does not take into consideration other expenses, such as taxes and legal costs.
Fairfield Council is currently taking feedback on the proposal.
Members of the community can make submissions to council from September 12 to 27.
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