Jun 01, 2026 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Australian real estate company Stockland has submitted plans to develop a new data center campus in Melbourne, Australia. According to Victoria’s planning register, the company filed a planning permit application late last month for a two-story, 250MW data center at 412 Francis Street in Brooklyn. The 22-hectare site is currently occupied by the Brooklyn Distribution Centre, a warehouse complex comprising 10 warehouses and office space, with a total lettable area of 130,160 square meters (1.4 million square feet). The proposed data center would occupy roughly half the site, replacing three of the existing large buildings. No construction timeline has been disclosed.
In a newsletter, Stockland said the site was “one of the few areas in Melbourne with the right combination of zoning and capacity to connect to high-voltage power grids and fiber-optic networks that a data center requires.”
Founded in 1952 and headquartered in Sydney, Stockland is one of Australia’s largest property groups, with investments spanning shopping centers, logistics facilities, workplaces, master-planned communities, and land lease developments. The company’s portfolio is valued at approximately AU$10.6 billion (US$6.6 billion), with a stated development pipeline of around AU$59 billion (US$41.6 billion). In February, Stockland announced it had secured power capacity for roughly 350MW of data center development in Melbourne, including sites at Cherry Lane in Laverton and the Brooklyn Distribution Centre. The company has also filed plans for two two-story data center facilities totaling 250MW at the Cherry Lane site, which would replace an existing 20,000-square-meter (215,280-square-foot) warehouse.
Stockland has multiple data center projects underway across the Sydney region. The company recently partnered with EdgeConneX for a development in Macquarie Park, where it has also previously completed another facility. The firm has also lodged plans for a 168MW data center in Kemps Creek and is pursuing an additional project at 2 Davis Road in Wetherill Park, a site currently occupied by a distribution center. In its latest earnings update, Stockland noted that three of its data center projects—in Wetherill Park, Kemps Creek, and Macquarie Park—are part of the New South Wales Government’s Investment Delivery Authority (IDA) fast-track approval program. The company also highlighted three existing sites with secured power capacity totaling 450MW.
