Five of most innovative community housing developers in 2021
LONDON: Over the next 5 days, an innovative community housing developer will be profiled.
Today it will be Liam Wallis.
Milieu
It started with a search for a dream property that was both design-led and sustainable … and the realisation that it simply didn’t exist.
Milieu founders Michael McCormack and Ross Troon identified a gap in the market and launched their vision for creating “spaces of influence” and community.
At the core of Milieu’s design-led practices is a desire to build a home and community you would want to live in, and five members of their team do, including sales and marketing manager Patrick Cooney.
“We believe sustainability should be standard, and that beautiful, smart design and interiors are what sets our projects apart,” Cooney said.
“For us, floor plan is crucial, it needs to be flexible and functional.
“And as you set the benchmark other developers [and designers] are following it and replicating it because buyers are demanding it.
“You need to push the boundaries every time you finish a project … you have to evolve.”
Milieu has captured the attention of big players in the market and will partner with Stockland to deliver a townhouse and 150-apartment building on Albert Street at Brunswick on the site of a former timber yard.
Albert Fields will be delivered in collaboration with Mirvac, who acquired the 1ha site across multiple properties in 2019 and mid-2020, to create a 527-apartment precinct designed and built specifically for renters. It is between Brunswick’s Clifton Park and Gilpin Park.
“We don’t think about apartments as products, we think about them as homes,” Cooney said.
“We’re proud of what we are building, the quality is there and we stand by it.”
