The unfinished suburb that's getting ready for a boom

By Jayne D'Arcy
Updated September 27 2017 - 12:28am, first published September 26 2017 - 9:01pm
Mickleham suburb pictures, new development Annadale coming.
Mickleham suburb pictures, new development Annadale coming.
Construction work at Marnong Estate in Mickleham
Construction work at Marnong Estate in Mickleham
MODERN MELBOURNE #193  The Sunday Age, News, 04/01/2016 photo by Justin McManus. "Now Selling" Donnybrook rd Mickleham.
MODERN MELBOURNE #193 The Sunday Age, News, 04/01/2016 photo by Justin McManus. "Now Selling" Donnybrook rd Mickleham.

Annadale Estate could be a winery. Just like The Corner Store at Merrifield could be a corner store: you know, next to the fish and chip shop. But the latter is a converted shipping container, standing alone, providing the only lattes in the hood - and mostly to the tradies building the houses in the Merrifield development. Mobile food vans (no, not the food trucks the inner city loves) zoom around feeding the rest come lunchtime. And Annadale Estate is a housing estate, not a winery. There's nothing much here, yet. An old primary school sits kilometres away, dry and dusty. New schools are on their way.

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