Crown

James Packer’s Crown Resorts has proposed reorienting a major site in Melbourne where it once ­planned a $2bn hotel and apartment scheme into a new tower with a major office component.

Every morning Chuck Clatterbuck takes the construction lift a minute and half up the face of Crown Resorts’ $2.1 billion casino, hotel and apartment tower taking shape on Sydney Harbour, and walks down floor by floor.

Plans by the James Packer-backed casino giant Crown Resorts and the private Schiavello Group to build the $2 billion One Queensbridge hotel and apartment complex at Melbourne’s Southbank have been put in limbo after the Victorian government refused to extend the development permit.

Crown Casino has dodged State Government planning legislation and saved itself more than $60 million in fees ahead of construction of Melbourne’s tallest skyscraper.

An international joint venture led by gambling company Star Entertainment has swooped on the Gold Coast’s Sheraton Mirage in the latest salvo in the casino war with James Packer’s Crown Resorts. This article originally appeared on theaustralian.com.au/property.

James Packer is one step closer to kicking off development of the Crown Sydney high-rollers ­casino at Barangaroo. This article originally appeared on theaustralian.com.au/property.