Collingwood: Rooftop train carriage included in five-level property available for rent
A tenancy in the End to End Complex, at 5/48 Easey St,Collingwood, is available to lease, including one of the former Hitachi train carriages on the roof.
Business owners can test out their own artistic talents at a Collingwood building that’s ideal for a bit of trainspotting.
A five-level unit is opening up in the End to End complex, a landmark building where three old Hitachi train carriages lean out from the rooftop over the street below.
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Shesells Fairfield agent Jodie Hill, who is handling the leasing campaign for the 305sq m office at 5/48 Easey St, Collingwood, said the owners have said the new tenants can refresh the street art on the outside of the train carriage that forms part of the tenancy.
All aboard!
The new tenant would be able to update the artwork on their train carriage.
“It’s like an egg carton, there’s three front and the back,” Ms Hill said of the rooftop train carriages.
“One carriage is shared as like a hot space you can book it. One carriage is directly for this unit that we’re leasing out and then the other is where you can go and have your hamburgers.”
The neighbouring rooftop burger joint is Easey’s, which operates in a converted train complete with retro Met carriage decor.
The unit at 5/48 Easey St provides office space over four floors, connected by stairs and a lift that rises up into the train carriage atop the building, designed by Zvi Belling of ITN Architects.
“To go up and have a meeting upstairs, you know, you feel pretty inspired just walking in,” she said.
Your neighbours would be the burger venue ‘Easey’s’. Picture- Nicole Cleary
Inside Easey’s Burgers train carriage. Picture: Nicole Cleary
Ms Hill said it would suit a business like an IT company, or someone on the lookout for a creative space in Collingwood.
The owners are looking to secure a tenant on at least a three-year lease.
The unit has three terraces, two car spaces and the renovated Hitachi Met train carriage.
Rolling Stock nostalgia appears at street level in solid railway track doors, sleeper canopies and train station platform facade panels.
The strength of this building as an icon of re-use is complemented by on site water harvesting, solar hot water, thermal mass engineering and passive solar design.
You don’t want to miss the last train.
The unit has a $132,000 a year asking rent, excluding outgoings, with the resent lease due to run out on June 30.
According to the latest Proptrack rental report for the March quarter, the residential rental crisis has deepened in our capital cities, with total stock at historic lows and demand surging.
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