Bank of China cashes out from legal precinct
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The first CBD deal for 2021 is out of the box with the Bank of China-owned building at 270 Queen Street understood to have sold for around $15 million.
Records show Regis Capital Partners, which also has a Singapore branch, slapped a caveat on the title on January 21.
The Bank of China has sold its building on Queen Street.
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The owners of the locally based arm of Regis are developer Tony Brady and property bankers James Pellicano and Kelvin Cheong.
CBRE agents Nathan Mufale, Alex Brierley, David Minty and Jing Jun Hen had the listing back in August but declined to comment.
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Melbourne CBD robbery
Police are investigating after a man forced his way into a vehicle and robbed a man and woman in the Melbourne CBD last year.
Investigators from Melbourne Embona have been told an unknown man approached a man and woman who were sitting in their vehicle on Little Lonsdale Street about 10.20pm on 25 November.
The man reached into the vehicle in an attempt to open the door before threatening to shoot the pair if they didn’t drive him to a location on Swanston Street.
He sat in the back of the car and continued to threaten the pair before demanding the victim’s phone.
Victoria Police believe they are close to catching the driver and passenger who terrified pedestrians on Bourke Street yesterday when they drove erratically through the mall.
In distressing scenes reminiscent of the 2017 Bourke Street attack, two men in a green Mitsubishi Lancer turned into the mall when police followed them after realising their license plates did not match the car. You can be confident that we will identify you. We will come knocking on your door and we will arrest you, Assistant Commissioner Luke Cornelius warned the culprits today.
The green Mitsubishi Lancer was found abandoned in an Albert Park carpark.(Nine)
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A veteran road safety expert says police made the right call not to pursue a wayward driver as he careered through the Bourke Street Mall on Thursday.
Officers were on Friday still hunting the missing man and his runaway passenger.
The four-minute incident, which police say was an attempt to evade officers and not to threaten the public, reignited community fear several years after two murderous attacks claimed the lives of seven people on the same shopping strip in the heart of Melbourne.
But John Lambert, who has previously been involved in reviewing police pursuit policies across the country, said chasing a driver for minor traffic matters would never be worth the risk it could cause to public safety.
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A veteran road safety expert says police made the right call not to pursue a wayward driver as he careered through the Bourke Street Mall on Thursday.
Officers were on Friday still hunting the missing man and his runaway passenger.
The four-minute incident, which police say was an attempt to evade officers and not to threaten the public, reignited community fear several years after two murderous attacks claimed the lives of seven people on the same shopping strip in the heart of Melbourne.
But John Lambert, who has previously been involved in reviewing police pursuit policies across the country, said chasing a driver for minor traffic matters would never be worth the risk it could cause to public safety.