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Burwood Highway&#39;s strengthening apartment market will soon be underscored by a new multi-level Quest Apartment Hotel development.

Crema Constructions has been anointed as the <a href="http://www.crema.com.au/project/quest-apartment-hotels/">builder of choice</a> for the project that has an estimated completion date of&nbsp;February 2019. At&nbsp;315-319 Burwood Highway, the K2LD Architects-designed Burwood East accommodation replaces an earlier purely residential design of roughly 100 apartments that was created by Plus Architecture for the site.

Developer&nbsp;OAM (Aust) Pty Ltd is backing the project that will now see&nbsp;91 Quest Apartments built across the expansive corner site.

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West of&nbsp;315-319 Burwood Highway lies&nbsp;Deakin University&#39;s Melbourne Burwood Campus and&nbsp;RSPCA Victoria, although Quest will likely be targeting the numerous suburban corporate offices within walking distance, headlined by&nbsp;Motorola Australia and Hewlett Packard.

Currently, <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/developments/burwood-east-vic">16 separate projects are sited upon Burwood Highway</a> within the Urban.com.au Project Database, with further additions pending. All bar Quest&#39;s new endeavour are private residential apartments, amounting to some 738 new dwellings.

Despite the sizeable length of Burwood Highway, the vast majority of these 738 new dwellings are located within Burwood or Burwood East.

Latest to the&nbsp;Urban.com.au Project Database is what shapes as the area&#39;s biggest proposal, at 380 Burwood Highway.

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<figcaption>Hayball&#39;s design for 380 Burwood Highway.</figcaption>
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Sought for the site is a&nbsp;ten level mixed-use building that would account for the well known China Bar Signature restaurant.

Designed by Hayball and submitted for planning during August of last year, the new 380 Burwood Highway would include 122 apartments, an education centre, various green/outdoor terraces, 1,405&nbsp;square metres of office space&nbsp;and 3,050 square metres of retail/restricted retail space.

China Bar Signature is slated to take up a first floor tenancy of 1,109 square metres in the new building.

Covering a triangular 5,047 square metre site,&nbsp;380 Burwood Highway would be the area&#39;s tallest building if approved.

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Quest boosts an expanding Burwood Highway development scene

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West Melbourne's increasing rate of densification will in time subsume another substantial site, with the expansive Rose Furniture building spanning 512-544 Spencer Street earmarked for redevelopment. Latest to capitalise on the area's march toward high density living are project partners Abacus Property Group, Lechte Corporation and Crema Constructions.

512-544 Spencer Street is the third current Melbourne apartment development for the team. The Eminence at 139 Queensberry Street, Carlton includes 193 residential apartments over 15 levels whilst Luminary in Hawthorn is a more modest development of 22 luxury dwellings.

DELWP are handling the application which would deliver two separate buildings, although three distinct architectural styles have been conceived to break up the development's multiple and substantial street frontages.

<h2>512-544 Spencer Street application summary</h2>

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<li>Site area: 4,246sqm with 3 street frontages</li>
	<li>Proposed 8 level apartment buildings</li>
	<li>207 apartments: 72 x 1BR, 135 x 2BR</li>
	<li>1,026sqm ALDI at ground level</li>
	<li>3 additional retail tenancies across 518sqm</li>
	<li>272 vehicle spaces across 3 basement levels</li>
	<li>171 bicycle spaces</li>
	<li>Terraced courtyard and library/lounge </li>
	<li>Project GFA: 31,175sqm</li>
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As was the case with The Eminence and Luminary, Plus architecture act as project architect for 512-544 Spencer Street.

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An architectural language was developed to respond to both the locality’s large scale industrial past, and the fine grain of the emerging residential developments.

The form was broken up into three separate blocks, each with their own take on an expression of vertical blades to describe the residential scale of the buildings. The three separate building languages have been designed to face the three separate street frontages of the site.
<cite>Design Statement: Plus Architecture</cite>
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<h2>West Melbourne in full boom</h2>

As the torrent of large developments in West Melbourne continues, many more people will invariably call the suburb home over the coming years.

512-544 Spencer Street is the 25th entry for West Melbourne within the Urban.com.au Project Database, with near on 3,300 apartments in play within postcode 3003. Of these, 781 - or just under one quarter - are at construction, pointing toward the future growth spurt that awaits within the suburb.

With Holder East yet to move on its large King Street holding and Perri Projects bidding to <a href="https://www.urban.com.au/news/industrial-west-melbourne-the-latest-urban-renewal-contender">rezone a vast section of industrial West Melbourne</a> to facilitate commercial and residential growth, West Melbourne's transformation may well accelerate over current high levels of development.

Whilst apartments will rule the West Melbourne roost, 469 hotel suites and/or serviced apartments are also primed for the suburb with the most recent addition that of Adina Grand signing on as operator of the hotel component within the West End development.

<h2>512-544 Spencer Street development team</h2>

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<li>Developer: Lechte Corporation &amp; Abacus Property Group</li>
	<li>Builder: Crema Constructions</li>
	<li>Architect: Plus Architecture</li>
	<li>Planning: Planning &amp; Property Partners</li>
	<li>Traffic: Traffix Group</li>
	<li>Sustainable Management Plan: Lucid Consulting Australia</li>
	<li>Waste Management Plan: Leigh Design </li>
	<li>Landscape Plan: John Patrick </li>
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