The council will build an $800,000 temporary car park to accommodate central Dandenong workers.
Greater Dandenong councillors selected Entracon Civil as the preferred tenderer for the project contract at their Monday 9 May meeting.
The CEO will now negotiate a price not exceeding $811,687 to deliver the single-level, uncovered car park in Carroll Lane.
The council recently bought VicTrack land between the George Street overpass – Stockman’s Bridge – and Carroll Lane that will eventually form part of the Metro Village stage eight precinct.
The long-term future is to develop the land as high-density mixed use and residential development.
The council allocated funding to design and build a car park for all-day workers in central Dandenong that’s expected to operate for the next eight to 10 years.
Councillor Matthew Kirwan said the lack of parking capacity for traders had been a problem for some time, “with those working in Dandenong taking up places that could be used for visitors”.
“This project, I believe, will have a significant improvement on the situation by providing a large increase in parking,” he said.
