Crown Resorts

James Packer’s Crown Resorts has proposed reorienting a major site in Melbourne where it once ­planned a $2bn hotel and apartment scheme into a new tower with a major office component.

Every morning Chuck Clatterbuck takes the construction lift a minute and half up the face of Crown Resorts’ $2.1 billion casino, hotel and apartment tower taking shape on Sydney Harbour, and walks down floor by floor.

Plans by the James Packer-backed casino giant Crown Resorts and the private Schiavello Group to build the $2 billion One Queensbridge hotel and apartment complex at Melbourne’s Southbank have been put in limbo after the Victorian government refused to extend the development permit.

Billionaire James Packer’s plans for an iconic casino, hotel and apartment tower at Sydney’s harbourside Barangaroo have received a major boost with his Crown Resorts winning a long running court battle against the authority overseeing the area.

The legal battle over the Central Barangaroo development on Sydney Harbour that could block views from James Packer’s Crown Resorts casino hotel and a Lendlease luxury apartment project wound on yesterday, with the court hearing allegations that the authority overseeing the area’s redevelopment had not acted in good faith in its negotiations.

When you’re building Australia’s most expensive hotel, you don’t skimp on the finer details. Built at a cost of about $650 million, you’ll be stunned to discover the level of planning and detail that went …