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A piece of Melbourne’s History: QC Residences

Market Insights
7 years ago
3 minutes

These days, Melbourne is spoilt for choice when it comes to premium apartment developments to choose from. City location? Leafy suburbs? Beachside bliss? The options are endless. 

However, it’s rare to come across an opportunity to purchase a slice of Melbourne’s rich history. The site at 472 Bourke Street in the CBD was the first purpose-built chambers for the Queen’s Counsel Barristers of Melbourne. Fronted by a magnificent, grand facade, the spectacular building will now be transformed into a luxurious new apartment complex.

“It’s not only the facade we are keeping, it’s the entire original structure, which is the bottom four levels,” explains John Kravaritis, Director of Savills Residential Projects.

“The apartments are incorporated in to the heritage part of the building, and that’s been a real point of difference.”

The appropriately titled ‘QC Residences’ will offer buyers the option of three distinct, but equally beautiful, living experiences, all designed by leading architect Studio505.

From lofty, Manhattan-style apartments built into the heritage-listed facade, with soaring three-metre ceilings, and original heritage windows, to another two modern and contemporary buildings complementing the site’s historical past, QC Residences is a truly unique development in Melbourne’s beating heart.

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With a selection of 150 one, two and three bedroom apartments to choose from, residents will also get to pick from a range of finishes and colour schemes, from a light contemporary scheme to a warm-toned heritage palette.

Each apartment will have floorboards in the open-plan living spaces, and come complete with modern Miele appliances, and designer fixtures in the bathroom, while magnificent heritage features will adorn a select number of apartments, and a few will have balconies to soak up the city atmosphere down below. 

As for location, a tram stop is literally on the doorstep of QC Residences, connecting you to wherever you need to go in Melbourne’s bustling epicentre filled with world-class restaurants. 

The city’s thriving entertainment precinct at Southbank, with Crown Casino and the beautiful Yarra River promenade, is within walking distance, as is the retail centre of the CBD filled with grand shopping centres and spiralling laneways lined with cafes and interesting boutiques.

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“A lot of owner-occupiers have gravitated to the fact that it’s city-living, but in a quiet part of the CBD. It’s not in a highly-densely populated area like Southbank or the Docklands. It’s an older part of Melbourne which is a bit more established, there isn’t a high rise on every corner,” Mr Kravaritis says.

Construction is set to commence later in the year, with the entire project slated for completion in 18 months.

“Melbourne has always been likened to the streets of Paris, San Francisco, London and New York, where everything is within walking distance and with the arrival of the QC Residences, Melbourne will be a mecca for chic inner city living,” Joseph Catanese, Savills Director of Residential Projects, concludes.

To enquire about purchasing a piece of Melbourne’s history, click here.