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Transforming Prahran’s iconic heritage buildings into a contemporary destination for creative and professional communities to work and thrive in.

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Prahran’s heritage is getting a new chapter. Banco Group is transforming some of the neighbourhood’s most iconic buildings into Cecil Place Precinct — a contemporary hub for work, creativity, and community.

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Banco Group is transforming some of Prahran’s most iconic heritage buildings into a contemporary destination for creative and professional communities to work and thrive in: Cecil Place Precinct.

Register now to stay in the loop. Head to the link in bio for more. by @cecilplaceprecinct

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New office levels are going up on Chapel Street, right behind one of the street's oldest facades.

"We took the vertical lines, and the rhythm of the HJ Corder House façade and transposed that into a modern glass façade behind," says Chris Manton, Founding Director of JAM Architects.

That's the glass you can see going up in these photos. by @cecilplaceprecinct

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We've had a warm welcome on this corner of Chapel Street, and it's easy to see why people love it here.

Different decades, different shopfronts, same thing underneath: a neighbourhood that's always had more character than it needed.

We're glad that Cecil Place Precinct gets to land right in the middle of it, and even happier for the welcome we've had along the way.

@whatsonstonnington @stonningtoncitycouncil by @cecilplaceprecinct

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Right now, Enrico, is laying the cobblestones down in the middle of what will be the piazza, setting each single piece of bluestone until it sits flush with the one next to it. It's the same specialist trade that laid Melbourne's old laneways by hand.

That's how the floor goes down. Not poured or machine-laid. Crate after crate of bluestone shipped in from south-west Victoria, unwrapped and cut by hand, and pieced together source by course into a fan pattern.

This piazza is the heart and centre of the office development at Cecil Place Precinct, and everyone who works here will cross it on their way in. It's being laid the way lasting things get built: one piece at a time, from the ground up. by @cecilplaceprecinct

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An afternoon on site with Marta, who's been here since the very first day of the build.

Turns out the bank wasn't big on throwing things out either. Clearing the old banking chamber, Marta and the team found more than fifty cheques left behind, some dating back to the 1800s. Weeks after that, it was glass bottles, pulled out of the ground still perfectly intact after more than a hundred years.

Keeping a facade standing is one thing. Treating everything underneath it with just as much care, cheque by cheque, bottle by bottle, is a different thing entirely.

This room's about to become an office floor. First, it's got a bit more history to give us. by @cecilplaceprecinct

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Banco Group gave the Union Bank to artists while its next use was still being decided: ØFFËRINGŠ in 2023, then Do Works as part of Melbourne Design Week in 2024, both staged inside the original banking chamber. Art at the Bank kept it alive. Soon it thrives again, full of people, as part of Cecil Place Precinct.

Cecil Place Precinct, 232–244 Chapel St, Prahran.

For leasing opportunities for boutique offices, hospitality, retail and more, contact Will at will@bancogroup.com.au or 0432 735 227. by @cecilplaceprecinct

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A chef between orders. A florist who's curated daily bouquets for over 12 years. A record store thirteen years deep. An artist working out of her own studio. A gym on its way.

This is who's already in the neighbourhood Cecil Place Precinct is joining.

Prahran's newest destination, leasing now.

For leasing opportunities for boutique offices, hospitality, retail and more, contact Will at will@bancogroup.com.au or 0432 735 227. by @cecilplaceprecinct

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We've kept the two heritage facades. Everything behind them is new, built around that decision, not over it.

The Union Bank's banking chamber still looks the way it did in 1919. Corder's has already come back once, rebuilt in the early 1920s after fire took the original building, and it wears almost the same face it did then.

"We took the rhythm of that facade and carried it straight into the glass behind it," says Chris Manton, the architect who led the redesign. Old and new, reading as one.

Traditional office and more, right here on Chapel Street, at Cecil Place Precinct.

For leasing opportunities for boutique offices, hospitality, retail and more, contact Will at will@bancogroup.com.au or 0432 735 227. by @cecilplaceprecinct

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You can walk to the market before work, catch a tram without checking the time, and be in the CBD in 15-20 minutes.

Prahran runs late, stays busy, and doesn't feel like it's trying to be anywhere else. Cecil Place Precinct sits right in the middle of all of it.

Prahran's newest destination, leasing now.

For leasing opportunities for boutique offices, hospitality, retail and more, contact Will at will@bancogroup.com.au or 0432 735 227. by @cecilplaceprecinct

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The Union Bank's ledgers, its original signage and its moulded ceiling are still exactly where they've always been.

Banco Group is restoring it as part of Cecil Place Precinct, four boutique buildings around a shared piazza on Chapel Street.

Prahran's newest destination, leasing now.
236–242 Chapel Street, Prahran.

For leasing opportunities for boutique offices, hospitality, retail and more, contact Will at will@bancogroup.com.au or 0432 735 227. by @cecilplaceprecinct

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