Multimillion-dollar Manunda Place CBD project ‘fast-tracked’

DARWIN commuters can expect traffic diversions and delays at the Knuckey St and Cavenagh St intersection for another year as construction continues on the new $75 million Health House project

Progress on the Manunda Place construction site this week. Picture: Keri Megelus

Darwin commuters can expect traffic diversions and delays at the Knuckey St and Cavenagh St intersection for another year as construction continues on the new $75 million Health House project.

Progress on the Manunda Place construction site this week. Picture: Keri Megelus

Corporate and Information Services Minister Lauren Moss toured the site yesterday as the ground floor slab of the project had been completed.

“We’ve reached another milestone here at the Manunda Place project,” she said.

Ms Moss said the project would create 250 construction jobs throughout its lifetime.

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“This $75 million construction plan has been fast-tracked providing an immediate and much-needed boost to the local construction sector and Territory economy,” she said.

“This is private investment in our CBD.”

Next stage is to finish the slabs and columns on the site, which builders hope to have done by the Wet. The nine storey building should be complete in mid-2020.

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Manunda Place will eventually house over 800 government staff. It’ll be the new home for Health Department staff.