- The Block Australia is facing a challenge – finding appropriate development sites.
“We’ve competing with every developer in town,” said The Block‘s producer Julian Cress who, like many smaller developers, is feeling the squeeze from a wave of cashed-up offshore players scouring Melbourne’s inner and middle-ring suburbs for viable projects.
“It’s getting almost impossible to find buildings like this,” said Cress about the show’s latest project, a heritage-listed building in Ingles Street, Port Melbourne.
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