Thursday, 1 March 2012

Vic: Dubai, not Melbourne, to be site of Grollo tower

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Vic: Dubai, not Melbourne, to be site of Grollo tower

By Jewel Topsfield

MELBOURNE, Feb 27 AAP - The Grollo family's dream of building the world's tallest buildinghas finally come true - but the tower will be in Dubai instead of Melbourne.

Developer Bruno Grollo was shattered in 1999 when the Victorian Kennett governmentscuppered his plans to build a 560 metre "monument to Melbourne" at the city's Docklandsprecinct.

But his vision will now become a reality after his development company Grocon signeda $3 billion deal with Dubai's biggest development firm Emaar Properties to build theworld's tallest tower in the Middle Eastern …

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