Brookfield Place (Perth)

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Brookfield Place
BHP tower gnangarra-10.jpg
General information
Status Complete
Type Office
Location Perth, Western Australia
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Construction started April 2008
Completed 2012
Opening 2012 (est.)
Cost A$500 million (est.)
Height
Antenna spire 234 m (767.72 ft)
Roof 204 m (669.29 ft)
Top floor 190 m (623.36 ft)
Technical details
Floor count 46
Floor area 71,000 m2 (760,000 sq ft)
Lifts/elevators 28
Design and construction
Architect Hassell, Fitzpatrick & Partners
Developer Brookfield Properties
Main contractor Brookfield Multiplex

Brookfield Place is a skyscraper within the Brookfield Place office complex in Perth, Western Australia. Located at 125 St Georges Terrace, the major tenant was BHP Billiton. Construction commenced in April 2008 and was completed in 2012. The project is estimated to have cost around A$500 million.[1]

Developers Brookfield lodged a development application for the second stage of Brookfield Place in July 2011, for a 30,000m² 16-storey office tower to be situated to the south of the main tower fronting Mounts Bay Road.[2] In June 2013 the second tower was approved - with tenancy commitments from law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth and Deloitte. Completion date of the second tower is estimated for 2015.

Retail tenants in the Brookfield Place complex include Montblanc and Daniel Hechter.

History

  • 1986 - Laurie Connell and Alan Bond both buy 25% stakes in the site in 1986 in partnership with the State Superannuation Board.[3]
  • 1988 - The site, then called Perth Technical College, sold to Kerry Packer and Warren Anderson for $270 million. One office building on what was renamed "Westralia Square" was constructed. The development is mired in WA state politics, and the deal will later be scrutinised in detail by the WA Inc Royal Commission. Kerry Packer famously declares: “All West Australians are crooks.”
  • 1990s - A $2 billion development by Indonesia's Samma Group collapses.
  • 2003 - Kerry Packer sells the site to Multiplex and Stowe for $19 million, taking a loss of $200 million. Multiplex and Griffin have agreed to carve up the Westralia Square property. Griffin has a smaller area on Mounts Bay Road and Multiplex has the prime location fronting St Georges Terrace.
  • 2005 - The vacant lot is voted the city’s ugliest feature in a 2005 survey of the state’s leading planning, design and infrastructure experts.[citation needed]
  • December 2007 - BHP signs the biggest office leasing deal in Perth's history—60,000 sq m.[3]
  • 2007-2008 - BHP denies it will be relocating its headquarters to Perth
  • March 2008 - Perth's Lord Mayor announces that BHP will be headquartering in Perth, and their Melbourne operations will be significantly downgraded.[3] (This is confirmed in August 2014).[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Brookfield Lodges DA for 2nd City Square Western Australian Business News, 5 July 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2013
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Sprague J-A. & Whyte J. BHP shuns Sydney, Melbourne with $15bn Perth HQ. Financial Review 12 August 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2015

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