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The Age
3 days ago
- Business
- The Age
Chemist Warehouse family pays $22.8m for six houses to demolish them
Can't find your dream home? In Melbourne's well-heeled inner east, one option is to buy out your neighbours – and build it. The Verrocchi family, of Chemist Warehouse fame, have bought six adjacent houses in Toorak for a combined $22.83 million and secured a planning permit to build a new residence. They're not alone, as families with the means look to create homes that suit their needs rather than buying someone else's vision. Matthew and Nicole Verrocchi are set to demolish the existing mix of town residences and apartments to build their dream home. Matthew's father is Mario, Chemist Warehouse co-founder, and Matthew is part of the empire as well as managing director of Bondi Perfume Co. The first purchase was in 2017, a $5.78 million contemporary home in Toorak marketed with a butler's pantry, barbecue and heated swimming pool. The selling agent was Marshall White's Marcus Chiminello who could not be reached. Their next buy the following year was the home of their next-door neighbour to the south for $2.4 million, also through Marshall White, described in its listing as an original Edwardian residence and opportunity for a new luxury home. The couple spent another $2.4 million in 2022 on the next house to the south, a four-bedroom town residence with skylights, stainless-steel appliances and a rear courtyard, through Woodards South Yarra. In 2023, they bought out the neighbour on the north side of their original purchase, paying $5 million, then in 2024, they added the next neighbour to the south side of their expanding footprint for $2.75 million.
Sydney Morning Herald
3 days ago
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
Chemist Warehouse family pays $22.8m for six houses to demolish them
Can't find your dream home? In Melbourne's well-heeled inner east, one option is to buy out your neighbours – and build it. The Verrocchi family, of Chemist Warehouse fame, have bought six adjacent houses in Toorak for a combined $22.83 million and secured a planning permit to build a new residence. They're not alone, as families with the means look to create homes that suit their needs rather than buying someone else's vision. Matthew and Nicole Verrocchi are set to demolish the existing mix of town residences and apartments to build their dream home. Matthew's father is Mario, Chemist Warehouse co-founder, and Matthew is part of the empire as well as managing director of Bondi Perfume Co. The first purchase was in 2017, a $5.78 million contemporary home in Toorak marketed with a butler's pantry, barbecue and heated swimming pool. The selling agent was Marshall White's Marcus Chiminello who could not be reached. Their next buy the following year was the home of their next-door neighbour to the south for $2.4 million, also through Marshall White, described in its listing as an original Edwardian residence and opportunity for a new luxury home. The couple spent another $2.4 million in 2022 on the next house to the south, a four-bedroom town residence with skylights, stainless-steel appliances and a rear courtyard, through Woodards South Yarra. In 2023, they bought out the neighbour on the north side of their original purchase, paying $5 million, then in 2024, they added the next neighbour to the south side of their expanding footprint for $2.75 million.
News.com.au
5 days ago
- Lifestyle
- News.com.au
Cricket great Ivo Bligh's former East Melbourne home hits market
Cricket tragics could find themselves bowled over by an East Melbourne heritage property once home to the captain of English's first Ashes test side. Renowned cricketer Ivo Bligh lived at the Victorian-era residence 'Hazelwell' with his Australian wife Florence Morphy in the mid-1880s. It's believed the English captain stored the original Ashes urn at the house, earning it an enduring place in cricket folklore. Bligh, who later became the Earl of Darnley, was presented with the tiny terracotta urn after a match at Rupertswood Estate on Christmas Eve in 1882, where he also met his future wife. Fitting, the couple set up home just moments from the MCG at 121-123 Powlett St, East Melbourne. They later returned to England with the urn, which sat on the mantelpiece at the family home before being bequeathed to the Marylebone Cricket Club. With the current vendors pulling up stumps, Marshall White, Boroondara agent Chris Barrett is taking the single-level circa 1854 house to auction on June 5 with $4.7m to $5.1m price hopes. The four-bedroom, two-bathroom residence occupies a 448sq m block with the rare luxury of front and rear gardens in a prestigious position between Fitzroy Gardens and Darling Square. Mr Barrett said the location was popular with those in the medical field. 'It's obviously got access to all the hospital but it's a great landholding, with good orientation, and a beautiful period home so we are expecting to have lots of interest,' he said. 'When you get these types of properties, with the history, it adds to the romance of the property, especially for cricket tragics, and there's a lot of them out there.' The house blends hallmark period features such as a concave-roofed veranda, ornate iron lacework, high pressed metal ceilings, open fireplaces and dark-stained timber floors with a contemporary kitchen/dining area and family bathroom with integrated laundry. French doors link the rear living zone to a secluded brick-paved courtyard with a wood-fired pizza oven, while a side lane provides access to a double carport. Mr Barrett said there was scope for future expansion, subject to council approval.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Ogden leaders unveil new Marshall White Center in the city's older, more diverse core
A multimillion-dollar community center serving one of Ogden's most diverse neighborhoods in the older core of the city has been rebuilt and officially reopens on Friday. After plenty of community debate and public pressure, the original Marshall White Center closed in mid-2023 so the city-owned structure could be demolished and rebuilt. Nearly two years later, the $37 million replacement facility at 222 28th Street is complete, and Mayor Ben Nadolski sees it reclaiming its role as a community hub. 'This has always been an anchor to this neighborhood in particular, and it remains that way,' Nadolski said at a ceremony Thursday to unveil the facility and let the public have a peek inside. The facility serves as a legacy to building namesake Marshall White, an Ogden police officer killed in 1963, while its location is meant as an investment in the lower- to moderate-income area where it sits and 'the people that live in this neighborhood.' The future of the facility, first completed in 1968, became focus of intense debate in 2018 after city officials closed the large indoor swimming pool it housed due to cracks. A public debate over the willingness of the city to invest in the older neighborhood ensued, leading to public pressure to rebuild the aging structure and the formal decision in 2023 to move forward with reconstruction. Indeed, the facility has symbolic importance, underscoring what many believe to be the importance of investing in Ogden's traditionally underserved neighborhoods and outreach to historically marginalized city residents. Marshall White, who was Black, led the Ogden branch of the NAACP before his death and advocated for the city's Black community. Among the speakers at Thursday's ceremony was Ron White, Marshall White's son. Now living in Salt Lake City, he encouraged the public to use the new facility. The complex measures 68,000 square feet, a big jump over the 38,000-square-foot facility it replaces, and contains a pool, elevated track, gym, basketball courts, an indoor soccer field and classrooms. 'Use this place to build strength, build muscle, build endurance because you're going to need it. Life is hard. You'll need the strength to carry you through,' Ron White said. Two of Marshall White's other kids, Marcella White and Sammie Ellis, also attended. Marcia White, the chairwoman of the Ogden City Council but no relation to Marshall White, also addressed Thursday's gathering. She noted the significance of naming the facility in the turbulent 1960s, marked by the civil rights movement, after a Black man. 'Naming this center after a Black public servant in Ogden, in Utah, in our country at that bold and really, really meaningful. And you need to be proud of Ogden for it,' she said. Marshall White, an Ogden Police Department detective, was shot by a burglary suspect in the line of duty on Oct. 15, 1963, and died three days later. Artwork memorializing the man adorns the exterior entryway of the new Marshall White Center.
News.com.au
21-05-2025
- Business
- News.com.au
Melbourne businessman Ali Ali's Shrublands mansion in Canterbury gets $6m price cut
Melbourne businessman Ali Ali is making a fourth attempt to sell the Shrublands mansion and estate, after a $6m price cut. A low-key, but successful company director, Mr Ali made headlines when he bought the historic residence at 16 Balwyn Rd, Canterbury, for the then suburb record of $29m in 2021. He's since put it back onto the market in 2022, 2023 and again last year, with a neighbouring property included in the listing for a combined $48.8m. The 6500sq m property with 10 bedrooms and even more bathrooms returned to online listings via Marshall White top-end specialist Marcus Chiminello on Tuesday this week. It is now priced at $31m-$34m — about $6m below what it was listed for in 2023, without the neighbouring address. The 1863-built property is being marketed as one of Australia's finest homes, and is surrounded by manicured gardens, a tennis court, water fountain, a pool set into its own pavilion and a caretaker's apartment. The mansion also has sheltered parking for 10 cars, and a sprawling three-level floorplan with a dizzying array of features. In the basement there is a billiards room, wine cellar, gym and home cinema — with black and white photography from old movies, and a shot of Marilyn Monroe, adorning the exposed brick walls. The ground level hosts formal dining room with its own butler's pantry, living and sitting rooms, a family room, central kitchen with its own walk-in pantry, and a grand dining hall that opens to a heated courtyard and to a further living room with its own commercial kitchen. A home office, and a boardroom wrap up the floor where rooms are adorned with gilt ceiling ornamentation and chandeliers. Upstairs, a there are five bedrooms, most with ensuites or walk-in wardrobes, complemented by a library, another living area, and a balcony. There's also a guest wing with its own lobby, a further two bedrooms to either side of an additional living zone, two more bathrooms and a sauna. And, with two staircases to access it, a further sprawling main suite comes with its own sitting room, living area, dining zone, dressing room, bathroom and a massage room. As the listing puts it: 'very few original mansions of this calibre still exist in Australia'. Mr Chiminello has the home listed for private inspection.
