Picture a carefully crafted city buzzing with cafes and shops, nestled amidst sculpted parkland, waterways and sporting fields. A place of culture, leisure and opportunity, providing lifelong learning and essential services for your family with excellent transport links to Melbourne and beyond.
This is our vision. This is Merrifield.
Just 30kms north of Melbourne CBD and only 20 minutes from Melbourne Airport, Merrifield offers easy direct access to the Hume Freeway and future Outer Metropolitan Ring Road. Donnybrook Station is only moments away, with bus rapid transit and local bus networks also planned.
Perfectly positioned in the heart of Melbourne’s north, you’ll enjoy easy access to multiple major retail outlets and shopping centres, quality parks and sporting facilities, almost 30 schools and a number of hospitals and health clinics.
Inhabit a place of culture, leisure and opportunity that provides lifelong learning and essential services for you and your family, in the new epicentre of the north.
Lifestyle
From everyday convenience to fresh food, homewares and fashion, family picnics and dining out with friends; Merrifield offers a uniquely modern urban lifestyle all on your doorstep.
Lifestyle
Merrifield Shopping Centre
Earmarked to become the pre-eminent shopping, dining and entertainment destination in the north, offering everyday services plus recreation and community facilities just moments from home – first stage will open 2020 and include a supermarket, cafes and various specialty stores.
M-Square local convenience
Carefully planned with your daily needs in mind, M-Square will deliver future convenience, services, lifestyle, health, essential services and local amenity for our community. Already offering BP Service Station, Wild Bean Cafe and Kool Kidz kindergarten and childcare.
Neighbourhood parks and playgrounds
Including Pinnacle and Neighbourhood Park – fun for the whole family with its lookout tower, swings, grassy picnic areas, plus dual flying fox and toddler play areas
Diverse food, retail and entertainment outlets
Entertainment venues, gyms, public spaces, civic facilities and cultural activities are a key focus within our rapidly growing community.
Waterfront City
Destined to become a thriving and picturesque precinct alongside the planned Merrifield Park, offering all the elements of a vibrant city with shops, cosmopolitan dining, offices, entertainment, education, community facilities and a dedicated transport hub.
Merrifield Farmers Market
Fruit and Veg, freshly baked goods and hand-made arts &crafts are among the array of farm-fresh foods on sale at the Merrifield farmer's market - held the 4th Saturday of each month on the corner of St Georges Boulevard and Hawksburn Place.
Recreation
& Health
& Health
Stretch your legs and live well in an environment that offers community health and wellbeing options throughout its design.
Recreation
& Health
& Health
Outdoor adventures for all the family
Explore the great outdoors with 110+ hectares of quality open space, including parkland with green spaces, proposed lake and wetlands plus over 40 kilometres of walking, running and cycling tracks.
Well-managed conservation areas
Protecting floral and fauna of national significance with thoughtfully-designed walking trails will allow residents and workers to enjoy the natural environments of local sites like Kalkallo Creek.
Proposed Aquatic Centre and sporting facilities
Including tennis courts, football and cricket ovals, plus associated clubrooms and pavilions.
Proposed Hospital and Medical facilities
Providing for the community’s ongoing health and wellbeing now and into the future.
Merrifield Park
A State Government initiative, planned to become a stunning regional landmark larger than Central Park in New York City.
Community
Not just a place to live, work, learn and play: a place to thrive, amidst like-minded people from all walks of life. For all Merrifield community enquiries, and to receive a copy of our Community Development Vision, email our Community Development Manager Tennille Bradley-Ow. And don’t forget to follow our Facebook Community page and Instagram Account for all upcoming events in Merrifield!
Community
Merrifield Community Centre
A truly multi-purpose community activity centre that will provide maternal and child health services, playgroups, neighbourhood programs and more.
Arts and cultural spaces
For residents and the wider community to bond, create, and share their stories.
Community engagement
With a dedicated Merrifield Community Development Manager committed to fostering an engaged community through initiatives such as Auskick and events.
Community Partnerships Program
This yearly program provides grants to individuals, community groups, organisations and businesses that are committed to providing a direct benefit to the Merrifield community. Applications open in September annually.
Education
Merrifield values the ideals of lifelong learning, securing the long-term future of the local community.
Education
Kool Kidz Childcare & Kindergarten Now Open
Kool Kidz is a privately owned, family-run business offering premium care and education to local families, for children 8 weeks of age through to preschool.
Schools for all ages
A Catholic primary school with state-of-the-art facilities set to open 2021, plus a forthcoming kindergarten, state primary school and a state secondary college.
Adult learning
Supporting life-long learning with a proposed University, tertiary facilities and vocational training opportunities.
State of the art facilities
High-speed NBN connections for tomorrow’s classrooms.
Opportunity
A new picture of work-life balance comes into focus, with sustainable jobs offering careers close to home and the provision of an online service assisting jobseekers and businesses alike.
Opportunity
30,000+ new jobs
Forecast upon completion, establishing a sustainable new business and employment hub for the north.
Waterfront City
A thriving and picturesque precinct where you will be able to work, learn and play, offering shops, a cosmopolitan dining scene, offices, entertainment, education and community facilities, as well as a transport hub and a mix of quality outdoor spaces.
Merrifield Business Park
A fully-integrated business and employment precinct larger than the Melbourne CBD, strategically located along the Hume Freeway.
Vibrant City Centre
Featuring extensive local retail and office space to enable small-business growth and sustained prosperity.
Promoting jobs
With merrifieldjobs.com.au, a feature-rich online portal for local employers and jobseekers
Sustainability
Merrifield sets new environmental standards as the largest mixed-use development in Australia to be awarded the full EnviroDevelopment accreditation from the Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA).
Sustainability
Preservation and protection
Multiple conservation reserves to preserve and protect the natural environment.
Low impact living
A strong emphasis on renewables and material re-use for reduced pollution.
Sensitively designed
Demonstrating innovations in energy-efficient street lighting and water-preservation.
Independently recognised
Full six-leaf UDIA and EnviroDevelopment accreditation across all categories of Waste, Energy, Water, Community, Materials, and Ecosystem.
Merrifield
Bought to you by
Bought to you by
Merrifield is a joint venture between MAB Corporation and Gibson Property Corporation.
With over 20 years’ experience and unrivalled expertise in the planning and delivery of large masterplanned communities, their respective efforts have been acknowledged with more than 20 industry awards for architecture, urban design, planning and mixed-use developments.
MAB’s masterplanned communities – based on the 24 hour city model – are the perfect blend of residential, employment, retail, leisure and community facilities, planned in an integrated manner to create vibrant sustainable communities.
It’s all part of their mission to deliver high quality, unique developments and outstanding public places, in partnership with clients and communities.
Visit mab.com.au and gibsonpropertycorp.com to learn more of their other groundbreaking developments.
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Community
Meet the resident behind Merrifield Panthers Sporting Association & Merrifield Auskick
Meet Glenn Herring - the Merrifield resident behind Merrifield Panthers Sporting Association & Merrifield Auskick.
Community
Easter Party in the Park Gallery
Check out the great snaps from our Easter event on Thursday 18th April!
Community
Easter Party in the Park
Hop on down to the Merrifield Neighbourhood Park for a choc-tastic afternoon with family and friends!
Business Park
Kaufland selects Merrifield for Australian distribution centre
Kaufland, one of the world’s largest supermarket chains, has confirmed it will open its first Australian distribution centre at Merrifield Business Park, bringing 600 jobs to Merrifield.
