Topic - Developments

Uniting to triple the size of its Shellharbour retirement village

Mar 06 2018 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

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Luc Lucas (Uniting Lakeview resident), Rev Mark Greenlees, (Uniting Church), the Hon. Mayor Marianne Saliba, Adrian Ciano, (Uniting Head of Property Development), and Homer Dapas (Parkview Construction) at the official sod-turning ceremony

The Not For Profit’s Uniting Lakeview Shellharbour village, 85km south of Sydney in the Illawarra, will undergo a major redevelopment to add another 78 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments to its existing 24 units.

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