A Geelong architect has made its way onto a shortlist of three developers vying to build a new high-rise council headquarters costing around $100 million.
Chandler Architecture was on the “design team” of developer Raffles Chatter’s bid for the major project, City Hall revealed on Saturday.
Chandler was the only local name to appear in the field, with epc.Pacific and Fender Katsalidis rounding out the shortlist without mention of any other project partners from Geelong.
Council hoped to announce the winner in August so construction could begin in April 2020 for scheduled completion in July 2022.
A review panel’s “detailed evaluation” whittled down a field of 11 tenderers to produce this week’s shortlist, City Hall said.
The development would consolidate nine City offices at 137 Mercer St, presently a car-parking space opposite Geelong Police Station.
City Hall expects the new building to save council coffers around $2 million a year.
The project would also allow Geelong Library to extend into the existing City Hall offices in Gheringhap St after staff had moved to the new building.
