Construction at former Blackburn petrol station
IT’S been unused for 21 years, but a former Caltex petrol station site in a village in Melbourne’s east is soon-to-be-occupied, with construction starting on an apartment building.
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IT’S been unused for 21 years, but the former Caltex petrol station site in Blackburn Station Village is soon-to-be-occupied, with construction starting on an apartment building.
The site at 22 Blackburn Rd, Blackburn, which has sat empty since the petrol station was demolished in 2012, is about to boast 22 luxury one, two and three-bedroom apartments.
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Morton Park marketing executive Sarah Brown said the homes were expected to be ready in 12-15 months, and only three of them were still on the market — all two bedroom, two bathroom with carparking spaces.
The building will stand four-storeys above the ground in the shopping village, with a basement level underneath the structure for residents’ carparking.
The site was declared clear of petrol contamination in 2015, after Caltex undertook two-years of decontamination works, following the EPA issuing a clean up notice in 2010.
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