As Docklands continues imprinting into Melbourne’s heart, we are getting closer and closer to the suburb being completed. After a slowdown in construction over the last 24 months, we’re excited to see development applications being lodged all over Docklands as developers move to finalise their vision.

As your local Agency who’s been here since Docklands' inception, we’ve seen the area change and evolve over the last 23 years. In this continuing multipart series, I’ll have the pleasure of sharing some of these finishing touches and final projects with you and exploring how they’ll improve and impact different parts of Docklands.

Our focus today is what’s happening down in South Docklands, running from the Yarra River to the freeway and Bolte Bridge to South Wharf DFO. This highly Owner Occupied pocket of Docklands has been designed and planned to be a mini neighbourhood along the Yarra River. To achieve this, past projects in the area have had an approach to build slowly and keep supply tight. These high-end luxury apartments are sort after by local and foreign markets. Over recent months we’ve seen a change in pace as the City of Melbourne has approved six new complexes, as well as having received seven further building applications.  

The green light has been given for a 29-storey apartment building at 111 Lorimer Street. Standing on the Western part of the current Subaru Docklands site, this 349-apartment tower will enjoy a sort of harbour frontage as it rises over the existing townhouses to the North, unlocking stunning river views. In the pipeline for years, plans are now edging closer as a 2025 completion date quickly approaches.

In addition, South Docklands is also set to welcome a three-building complex located at 850 Lorimer Street with an 11-storey office block adjoining two 24-storey towers housing 336 new apartments. Sitting on almost one hectare, The Goldman Group have appointed Hayball to design the triangular-shaped complex