Project Info

Client ABH Bar Group

Skills Project Management, Design

Website www.mrburger.com.au

Tags commercial, Hospitality

 

The challenge: Turn a faded car yard into a boutique outdoor diner.

 

The outcome: 

Thornbury is fast developing a reputation as Melbourne’s new repository of cool, but turning a century-old landmark car depot into a unique Food Truck dining venue took some creative approaches.

The site incorporates parking for up to four food trucks, outdoor seating and landscaping and a bar to slake the thirst of grazing hipsters at the front of the site, while a warehouse and parking facility for Mr Burger’s fleet of nine food trucks gives new life to the old car yard building.

 

“It’s a really exciting site,” Hugh said.

 

“The biggest challenge is managing design, construction and planning at the same time. Our designers worked up detail drawings based on the architectural concept we were given, while we proceeded with construction in a staged approach, managed in conjunction with planning.

 

“It’s meant we can deliver the project much more quickly for the client while careful scheduling kept the contractors busy.”