Consultant will project manage expansion of huge Melbourne mall

Melbourne shopping centrre

Turner & Townsend has been appointed project manager on the 拢200m overhaul of a Melbourne shopping centre.

The consultant鈥檚 Austrlian arm, Turner & Townsend Thinc, will help client Vicinity Centres add 25,000 sq m of floor space to one of the southern hemisphere鈥檚 largest malls, Chadstone Shopping Centre.

The redevelopment will create a new entertainment precinct including a digital cinema complex with 13 screens and a revitalised west mall with 40 new retailers.

Approximately 570 stores will be housed in the centre following completion in mid-2017.

This is the second major shopping centre project picked up by the consultant over the last year, after winning the project manager role on the 拢380m expansion of Eastland Shopping Centre, also in Melbourne.

James Coffey, director at Turner & Townsend Thinc said: 鈥淏illions of dollars are being spent on major shopping centre redevelopment projects across Melbourne.

鈥淭hree of its flagship tenancies including H&M, Zara and Uniqlo, plus two mini major tenancies - Rebel and JBHiFi will be managed by our tenancy delivery team.鈥