TP Dynamics managing director Tony Pan at the Newlyne Experience Centre: quality, community and amenity. Photo: Ian Bushnell.
That’s not a property display centre. This is a display centre.
Canberra-based property developer TP Dynamics has spent $5 million on its Newlyne Experience Centre in Lyneham, opening today to showcase its upcoming residential and retirement developments in partnership with the Yowani Country Club.
The masterplanned Newlyne residential and commercial precinct, designed around a 10,000 sqm central park, will be developed on club land in three stages over the next eight to 10 years and could accommodate up to 1000 homes.
The first projects getting underway are Moiré, offering 72 premium apartments across two buildings on the Swindon Street extension close to light rail, and Mattone, again across two buildings, delivering 87 apartments with a focus on flexibility and accessibility on the precinct’s southern side. Both rise to a modest six storeys, the maximum height across the precinct.
Complementing Mattone is the lower-scale Mason, 10 two-storey, four-bedroom, 250 to 300 sqm townhouses along Sullivans Creek that will be north of $3 million to buy. Price points for the apartments are still being finalised.
The retirement element is Sense of Yowani, which will be introduced progressively and eventually total up to 400 dwellings over the life of the precinct.
The entire Newlyne precinct will aim for a five-star Green Star Communities rating and feature recycled water systems, energy-efficient technologies, and environmentally responsible materials. It will also include 78 km of paths.
Head of marketing and sales Ken Kong with the precinct model showing the buildings soon to start construction and a video display.
The two-level Newlyne Experience Centre has been designed to provide an immersive experience, featuring video screen walls, display suites of dwelling plans, a lift similar to those to be included in the townhouses, and a viewing platform to look out over the precinct as it takes shape.
Visitors will be greeted with the aroma of fresh coffee from its own cafe and a spectacular waterfall and raised pond as they enter the opening display area, where they can also view a model of the Newlyne precinct.
Project videos and images can be projected onto the walls for a detailed effect.
For TP Dynamics managing director Tony Pan, the investment in such a display centre reflects his commitment to quality, community and amenity.
“It allows people to step inside and experience what life in this part of Canberra could become,” he says.
“For many, it offers a new way of thinking about urban living, in a location that feels both familiar and forward-looking.”
The centre will also have to be around for a long time as Newlyne is developed over the next decade. The modular steel construction means that when it is no longer needed, the centre can be disassembled and the steel recycled.
Mr Pan says Newlyne is very much a local development for Canberrans, including Yowani members, and those who may have grown up in the inner north, left, but now want to return.
One of the apartment plans that can be experienced at the new centre.
Newlyne has already taken 1000 expressions of interest, and 60 per cent of the first stage of the Sense of Yowani retirement development is already sold.
“Canberra is the best place in the world,” Mr Pan says, “so I think this is a lifetime opportunity that we can do something decent here.”
Sense of Yowani is TP Dynamic’s own brand and Mr Pan has a vision to develop one of Australia’s most luxurious and affordable retirement villages in the middle of town next to the golf course, filled with amenities such as a swimming pool, wedding centre, cafe, restaurant, theatre, library, sauna, hairdresser, and a small supermarket.
Mr Pan says providing quality retirement living also helps ease the housing squeeze by freeing up large established family homes for young people when their older owners downsize.
Yowani Country Club president John McCullagh says it is a generational opportunity for Yowani, whose new clubhouse will be complete by the end of the year.
“It is a way to preserve the spirit of the club while opening its future to a broader and more inclusive community,” he says.
In fact, Mr Pan plans to include more club and Canberra community history in the centre, rather than just marketing materials.
“We are here to work, to deliver. It’s not about us. It’s about this community. It’s about the Yowani members,” he says.
Early works on Stage 1 have started on site and all buildings will be constructed simultaneously, with completion to take about two to three years.
