Summary:
- Multiplex completed Journal Student Living’s Market Way PBSA project at 100 Franklin Street, Melbourne, ahead of schedule, delivering 715 rooms with 1,010 beds and extensive communal amenities across 40 levels in the city’s Queen Victoria Markets precinct.
- The development integrates heritage preservation by retaining and upgrading the four-storey 1840s Burbank House, repurposed for resident facilities, while employing advanced prefabrication methods including nearly 1,000 offsite-fabricated bathroom pods and modular façade elements to accelerate construction.
- Market Way expands Journal Student Living’s Melbourne footprint as a JV with Brookfield Asset Management, following their 2025 Campus House project, and responds to student preferences with 172 bicycle spaces and over 350 square metres of retail space, reinforcing its strategic location near top universities.
Original article:
https://propertymarkets.news/multiplex-completes-journal-student-livings-melbourne-cbd-pbsa/
