Topic - Developments

Construction begins on $47 million Edenlife Australind (WA) land lease community

Jun 04 2019 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

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Edenlife CEO Bill Marshall, first site holder Elizabeth Gargaro, Seniors and Ageing Minister Mick Murray, and Murray-Wellington MLA Robyn Clarke. Image by Thomas Munday / The Bunbury Mail.

Local property investor and developer, Lester Group, has started work on a new LLC in Australind (15 kilometres north-east of Bunbury on WA’s south coast), which will feature a total 186 homes and house around 300 residents.

Stage one, scheduled for completion in late 2019, will deliver 36 houses and a range of community facilities.

As we reported here, Lester Group is planning “a number of communities” for prime locations around the metro and regional centres of WA.

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