Breaking ground on new Tamworth CBD apartment building
The Leader goes on site as work starts on Tamworth's newest CBD apartment building. Jonathan Hawes speaks to developer Campbell McIntosh and Burke and Smyth Real Estate principal Gavin Knee. Video by Jonathan Hawes
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00:00We're doing a geotechnical assessment, which is required for the structural engineer to design the footings
00:08and the piers that will go under the building eventually.
00:11There's so much work that's got to be done at the front end before this project starts to be built on site,
00:19but this is all the behind the scenes.
00:31It's exciting. Nuri and I are so excited.
00:34We live, breathe and eat in this project, and it's just finally nice to see some machinery on site.
00:44The Menzies Project will be Tamworth's first ever mid-rise apartment complex,
00:48and it may be the last one it gets for a while,
00:51with recent changes to building regulations making it difficult for the project to be replicated across the city.
00:57With the planning legislation now and the building code in New South Wales,
01:01these projects are going to be few and far between, so this will be a landmark for Tamworth in the CBD.
01:06I think it's just very exciting.
01:08Campbell and Nuri have put a lot of time in the last two or three years to get to this stage,
01:12and the market's demanding it.
01:14We've got nearly 20 of the 22 units allocated.
01:17It's exciting to see it finally start.
01:19We're actually on site starting a little piece, but we're starting.
01:27The Menzies Project