Box Hill
Mall giant keen to sell $1.57 billion Box Hill shopping centre development
Mall giant Vicinity has received an unsolicited approach from an interested buyer to take over the $1.57 billion development of Box Hill Central shopping centre.
- by Nicole Lindsay
Latest
Victorian local elections 2024: Greater Melbourne candidates speak out
Local election candidates across Greater Melbourne have responded to The Age’s survey. Read what the candidates in your area plan to do if they are elected.
Whitehorse City Council: What your candidates said
Voters in Whitehorse will choose 11 people to represent them on council for the next four years. Here is what the candidates said about why they are running in the Victorian council elections and what they want to achieve.
- by Cara Waters and Rachael Dexter
The name of this vibrant, foodie paradise was drawn out of a hat
Once a painter’s paradise, this suburb has swapped towering gums and dense bush for looming skyscrapers and the Suburban Rail Loop.
- by Angus Delaney
Council slams being shut out by state over plan for $1.6b tower project
A mayor in Melbourne’s east says her council only learnt that the planning minister had approved a huge development project when staff saw a news report.
- by Sophie Aubrey
Exclusive
Development
High-rises up to 50 storeys get green light for Melbourne suburb
Seven new Suburban Rail Loop towers will add 1700 homes, but not without reigniting debate about how high is too high.
- by Kieran Rooney and Broede Carmody
The two suburbs due to lose 15 MCGs of open space to Victoria’s Big Build
A Melbourne mayor has warned the Victorian government, “you can’t just take, you have to give something back”, as Big Build projects gobble up suburban parklands.
- by Sophie Aubrey
City life
City life
Burwood was ‘the bush’. Now it’s a university hub with towers to come
It was once conservative, culturally homogenous and rough in parts. These days it’s young, ethnically diverse and dominated by a university.
- by Madeleine Heffernan
Opinion
Life in the ’burbs
My suburb has a language barrier – and it makes people act differently
Owning a piece of sky instead of land? Raising a family in an apartment? All these things are normal in Asia, and yet so strange to many Australians.
- by Meg Davies
The chefs’ guide to Melbourne’s Chinatowns, and what to eat when you’re there
Ahead of Lunar New Year, five top chefs share where they head for “textbook Cantonese cooking”, “a warm Cambodian hug”, or crispy suckling pig.
- by Daniela Frangos
Swimmers alarmed at push to outsource two popular Whitehorse pools
A growing number of Melbourne’s public pools are now being privately managed, and those in Nunawading and Box Hill are set to join the list as cost pressures mount.
- by Rachael Dexter
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