Project fastest seller with 900 land buys

As published in the Hume Leader, 19 April 2016

The up-and-coming Merrifield development is the fastest- selling estate in Melbourne’s northern growth corridor, recent data shows.

Research by Oliver Hume showed the project had sold more lots than any other active land estate in the region in the year to February.

In the three years since the project launched, almost 900 residential land sales have been recorded.

Project director Matthew Planner said masterplanning and delivery focus were key to its success.

Young couples and families make up almost 90 per cent of buyers in the project, which is the state’s largest mixed-use masterplanned community.

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Merrifield Places Education at the Forefront of its Community Development

Merrifield, Mickleham has secured its first childcare centre with Kool Kidz Childcare and Kindergarten establishing a state-of-the-art, purpose-built early learning facility in a thriving new community.

The new childcare and kindergarten service will be located on the corner of Errol Boulevard and Bendigo Street, in the heart of the living precinct at Merrifield.

Construction will commence mid-2016 and the centre will be operational by mid-2017.

Kool Kidz Merrifield will cater for 168 children from 8 weeks of age through to preschool.

Kool Kidz is a privately owned, family run business that offers a premium experience for families, featuring higher than required staff-to-children ratios, an in-house chef preparing fresh nutritious meals, specially designed playrooms and playground areas and carefully selected passionate, highly-trained educators.

This is the first early educational facility to be confirmed for Merrifield, to be joined by three schools and a tertiary institution.

The Hume City Council places strong importance on educational infrastructure in the region and is pleased with the securement of the first childcare centre at Merrifield.

“With significant population growth within the Hume region expected over the next 10 years, schools and childcare facilities are extremely necessary in any new development,” stated the Hume Mayor, Cr Helen Patsikatheodorou.

“The vision for Merrifield was always to create a sustainable way of life for our customers, complete with a living and employment precinct, lifelong education options and a thriving city centre.  Three schools are earmarked for the site along with another childcare centre once the population reaches certain thresholds,” said Matthew Planner, Director of Merrifield.

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For more information about Kool Kidz Merrifield please call 1800 KOOL KIDZ (566 554)