MAB Corp Launch Medical Building at University Hill

Melbourne’s northern corridor is on track to receive a new medical-focused commercial building within MAB Corporation’s $1 billion University Hill precinct.

The two level, $18 million building known as 7 Ormond will feature 25 office suites and its own ambulance bay suitable for professional and medical consulting use.

The building, designed by architects Watson Young, includes solar panels, large internal skylights, ambulance bay, ground floor tenancies, and facilities tailored to office occupiers or medical professionals seeking to establish consulting suites.

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MAB Commercial Projects director Andrew White said the “strategic location” is well-suited to the influx of medical businesses looking for new purpose built office facilities in the area.

“In more recent years we’ve seen a high number of medical businesses establishing in the precinct because of its ideal proximity between the Austin and Northern Hospitals,” he said.

University Hill was established in 2006 on a 104-hectare site 18 kilometres from the Melbourne CBD. It currently contains 155 businesses and more than 1,000 dwellings, catering to 3,000 employees and an expected annual population growth rate of 2.6 per cent.

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Medium density housing is accompanied by cafes, banking, shopping, childcare, full service gyms and the growing health and wellbeing precinct.

When complete, the property will become University Hill’s sixth office building.