Project to build on fresh trends

EMULATING a metro trend, Mi Haven Development has plans to pair small inner city office space with two-bedroom units a stone’s throw from the CBD.

The award-winning company has plans to further expand its inner city low-cost accommodation empire and this week lodged a development application with Cairns Regional Council for a property in Parramatta Park.

The company plans to create six lots from one at 5 Palm Ave.

The demolishing of an existing Queenslander-style house is also proposed.

“The six offices with dwelling units will have an attached terrace design with carparking located underneath the dwellings (and) the proposal will have shared easement for access,” the development application states.

Mi Haven Development director Sarah Mort said the idea came from similar projects in inner city Sydney.

“The location is gold, it’s as close as you can get to the CBD and it creates a space where you can work and have an office as well as live from,” she said.

“It’s really creating that unique opportunity (for) people like start-up IT businesses, architects, town planners and engineers who just need a working space, who want to be close to central facilities, but require the ability to have accommodation where they are working.”

The six offices are expected to each occupy a floor space of 160sq m each and have a twobedroom unit and a private courtyard.

Ms Mort said Mi Haven had emerged as inner city property specialists who had fulfilled a need for small, low-maintenance freehold dwellings.

“We are certainly getting a following and I really do engage with people coming through our properties and ask them a lot of questions about what they liked about it or what they are looking for in the market,” she said.