Holder East Files Box Hill Office Tower Plans

Chinese developer Holder East has set its sights on Melbourne suburb Box Hill, filing plans for a 13-storey office tower.

The developer has proposed the building for the 662sq m site at 701 Station Street in Box Hill.

Fender Katsalidis designed the plans, which includes office space on the first to 12th floors, and retail spaces on the ground floor.

Also planned are two basement levels with end-of-trip facilities, bicycle storage and car parking.

The first basement level would have 13 car parking spaces while the second basement level would have bicycle storage for 40 bicycles, six car parking spaces including one accessible space, and the end-of-trip facilities.

A bus stop is opposite the site with a tram stop and the Box Hill Train Station further down Station Street at the crossing with Whitehorse Road.

Gross floor area for the building is 8204sq m with 4659sq m of net lettable area for office space and 178sq m for the two retail tenancies on the ground floor.

The development cost for the project is estimated at $30 million, according to the City of Whitehorse’s records.

▲ Fender Katsalidis' renders of the tower in Box Hill.

Holder East BH Pty Ltd is listed as the client on application documents submitted to the council.

ASIC records list Tu Lu, Debin Lu and Rui Grace Guan as the directors of Holder East BH.

All three are also the directors of Holder East Pty Ltd, which is listed as the sole shareholder of Holder East BH. A British Virgin Islands-based company Holder East Capital Ltd is listed in ASIC records as the sole shareholder for Holder East Pty Ltd.

The company has other projects in Melbourne including a mixed-use project that was appoved for King Street, West Melbourne in November, 2022.

Recent projects planned for Box Hill, 14km east of the Melbourne CBD, include Golden Age Group’s residential project in Box Hill South for 147 hourse on a 50,116sq m site at 15-31 Hay Street, filed in February.

Golden Age is a prolific developer in the Box Hill area.