EMPORIUM SITE PROGRESS

Grocon has been working at the Emporium site in central Melbourne since late 2010. Buildings on the site between Lonsdale and Little Bourke Street have been progressively demolished and excavation is underway to create a two level basement. The construction of a new retail building began in 2012. Grocon has completed night works to erect steel retention systems supporting the historic facades fronting on to Lonsdale and Little Bourke Streets, which date back to around 1920.

The new Emporium will ultimately have around 250 speciality shops, creating a new shopping precinct in the heart of the city, linking the current Myer and David Jones buildings in Bourke Street with Melbourne Central in Lonsdale Street. Two tunnels have been constructed under Little Bourke Street and multi level airbridges over Little Bourke Street will also be established to ease pedestrian access between the buildings. Grocon is building the new Emporium for client Colonial First State Global Asset Management.

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