First Flinders, then Curtin and now La Trobe announce big infrastructure spends

La Trobe U joins the campus building boom, with construction starting on a $100m student accommodation (624 beds) complex at the Bundoora campus. It’s part of a campus-in-community project, to include an expanded private hospital, plus aged and child care centres. The university says it is addressing an under-supply of services in adjacent communities and plans to become, “the engine room of Melbourne’s north,” (CMM June 25 2018).