Residential approval sought for Graham Geddes High Street, Armadale site

Residential approval sought for Graham Geddes High Street, Armadale site
Jonathan ChancellorDecember 7, 2020

The longtime Graham Geddes Antiques store site on High Street, Armadale could become a seven-level shop top residential tower.

Savills sold the sites near Armadale railway station, known as 875-881 High Street and 19-21 Osment Street, in June for $7.5 million.

The application seeks a seven-level tower with 67 flats configured with between one and five bedrooms.

The complex will include 187 square metres of retail space. 

There was heritage consideration briefly given in 2009 to 19 Osment, a modest timber villa of the late nineteenth century, but with its size suggests standards of amenity above the typical worker’s ‘Struggletown’, Stonnington Council records reveal it was not pursued.

Armadale's tallest proposed apartment block is the proposed 12 levels at the nearby former State Rivers & Water Supply Commission office holding at 590 Orrong Road and 4 Osment Street.

The man regarded as Melbourne's antique king previously owned the property.

He had also traded elsewhere in Armadale's High Street which was where he consulted to Robert Holmes a Court, Alan Bond and Christopher Skase during the high-flying 1980s. Now in his 80s, Now aged 72, graham Geddes started his business life in the 1960s as a second hand dealer.

Jonathan Chancellor

Jonathan Chancellor is one of Australia's most respected property journalists, having been at the top of the game since the early 1980s. Jonathan co-founded the property industry website Property Observer and has written for national and international publications.

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