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Old 18-05-2019, 08:55 PM   #1
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https://www.whichcar.com.au/news/for...UK34vK1I:tdown
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Old 19-05-2019, 07:01 PM   #2
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Thanks for that Revcore.

I only live about 15 minutes drive away from the Broadmeadows factory and did my apprenticeship time at 2 different workshops all in the same Hume Hwy main section thats about 3kilometres long from the top of Sydney Road right up to Somerton.

Its actually Campbellfield not Broadmeadows really.

Anyways its great to see at least they're not putting houses on the land like everywhere else in Melbourne and turning into new, productive, job making factories that will give people like me in the area new jobs.

Great news!!!!
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Old 20-05-2019, 01:20 PM   #3
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In a press release issued today, Ford said it had chosen Pelligra for its “appreciation for the significance” of the plants, with the historic relevance of both locations to be memorialised.
Yeah memorialised into shoebox apartments. Wait and see.
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Yeah memorialised into shoebox apartments. Wait and see.
My sentiments, exactly..
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Yeah memorialised into shoebox apartments. Wait and see.
Zoned industrial. And it’s a factory. Can’t see how you could turn it into apartments. Have you been inside? It’s still well set up for industrial use and there are already long term tenants in there with marand engineering occupying the old tool room.

It will never be made into housing imo. Not to mention Ford still have product development at both sites occupying large areas. Just not feasible for either site to be used for anything other than industrial. Unless both sites were flattened which due to the heritage overlays is probably not going to happen either. No one would want to live in a polluted old factory.
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Zoned industrial. And it’s a factory. Can’t see how you could turn it into apartments. Have you been inside? It’s still well set up for industrial use and there are already long term tenants in there with marand engineering occupying the old tool room.

It will never be made into housing imo. Not to mention Ford still have product development at both sites occupying large areas. Just not feasible for either site to be used for anything other than industrial. Unless both sites were flattened which due to the heritage overlays is probably not going to happen either. No one would want to live in a polluted old factory.
Never say never, Sydney Olympic Park and East London are two that come to mind...
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Never say never, Sydney Olympic Park and East London are two that come to mind...
Were they heritage listed?
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The broady site should be getting bulldozed and new factories erected. That thing became very neglected by the end.
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Never say never, Sydney Olympic Park and East London are two that come to mind...
Darling Harbour is another one...All the heritage listed facades With Fugly blocks of Flats built on Top/inside...

The way Melbourne's Population is exploding, It'll happen in 15-20 yrs for Sure.. IMHO
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Zoned industrial. And it’s a factory. Can’t see how you could turn it into apartments. Have you been inside? It’s still well set up for industrial use and there are already long term tenants in there with marand engineering occupying the old tool room.

It will never be made into housing imo. Not to mention Ford still have product development at both sites occupying large areas. Just not feasible for either site to be used for anything other than industrial. Unless both sites were flattened which due to the heritage overlays is probably not going to happen either. No one would want to live in a polluted old factory.
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Were they heritage listed?
Been past Pentridge lately, and yes it’s heritage listed.
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Sounds like hipster paradise living.
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What happened to Pentridge really does make me queasy. The butchering of key elements coupled with plonking standard-issue “cram ‘em in” medium rise buildings. I drove and walked around the area in early 2016 and it was horrible; the essence of thousands of unhappy souls engorged those thick, looming walls.

I can’t believe that anything on the Ford sites begins with such depth of physical prejudice and imbued suffering.
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Australian Red Cross now occupies the old Austin car factory in West Melbourne.

A heritage site I believe, its quite neat inside now with a mixture of old brick and new steel.

But I cant remember anything special about the Ford site you would want to retain.

Highly likely it will be bulldozed. also note it has a train station
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What happened to Pentridge really does make me queasy. The butchering of key elements coupled with plonking standard-issue “cram ‘em in” medium rise buildings. I drove and walked around the area in early 2016 and it was horrible; the essence of thousands of unhappy souls engorged those thick, looming walls.

I can’t believe that anything on the Ford sites begins with such depth of physical prejudice and imbued suffering.
That and the fact there are many bodies still buried there in the unmarked graves outside the bluestone wall of what was then the orange brick hospital... so the story goes.
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Zoned industrial. And it’s a factory. Can’t see how you could turn it into apartments. Have you been inside? It’s still well set up for industrial use and there are already long term tenants in there with marand engineering occupying the old tool room.

It will never be made into housing imo. Not to mention Ford still have product development at both sites occupying large areas. Just not feasible for either site to be used for anything other than industrial. Unless both sites were flattened which due to the heritage overlays is probably not going to happen either. No one would want to live in a polluted old factory.
We just rezoned a similar Industrial zoned site 31,000m² (3.1Ha) to residential in Sydney. Now the client wants to fill it up with apartments for wealthy Chinese. (approx 750 in total)

It can be done, but the heritage listing can be an issue. I didn't know the ford site was listed.
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I think its only the Administration building that would be and any Heritage significance
the assembly plant and warehouse and not much more than tin sheds
https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov....ownload-report
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I think its only the Administration building that would be and any Heritage significance
the assembly plant and warehouse and not much more than tin sheds
https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov....ownload-report
Sounds very much like the Sydney Olympic site. The original Homebush abattoirs head office building & a few other smaller ones nearby are still present & serve as a museum. But the meat hall & all the larger buildings are long gone.

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So the guy who bought it, from Pillagra, was on the radio this morning talking about it. He said other developers would want to do housing, but he doesn't want to do that at all. He wants to keep them both industrial and they are spending significant sums of money refurbishing the factories, because his family who own Pillagra want to preserve our manufacturing history, and keep manufacturing in this country.

Good on him I say. We need manufacturing jobs that value add, we simply can't rely on service industries to keep people employed.
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They will sell it back to Ford for $1 when production resumes
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I think its only the Administration building that would be and any Heritage significance
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The Geelong factory will have more heritage significance.
vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/12548/download-report

Hopefully the factory frontage factors in their plans - would be mad not to regardless of heritage protection.
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Although getting old and perhaps neglected, the factories are very well made and with some TLC will server decades more yet.
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Been past Pentridge lately, and yes it’s heritage listed.
How much of a joke is that, imagine being locked up there in the 1980s and early 90s before it closed then finding out it's turned into expensive apartments inside that massive ugly old bluestone wall.

My old man used to work there in the 1980s and took me through as a wee woglet when they were doing tours in the 1990s before it was turned into housing, it had this distinct smell about the place.

They probably said the same thing about Kensington - industrial suburb that's being rezoned into residential from industrial.

Same with Brunswick - old industrial suburb that's 7 figures now.
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How much of a joke is that, imagine being locked up there in the 1980s and early 90s before it closed then finding out it's turned into expensive apartments inside that massive ugly old bluestone wall.

My old man used to work there in the 1980s and took me through as a wee woglet when they were doing tours in the 1990s before it was turned into housing, it had this distinct smell about the place.

They probably said the same thing about Kensington - industrial suburb that's being rezoned into residential from industrial.

Same with Brunswick - old industrial suburb that's 7 figures now.
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I wonder how much, if any nos parts are buried there as landfill as well as lots of other ford history...….
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