Bruce could be home to more apartments as plans for a residential development have been unveiled.
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A development application has been submitted to the ACT Planning and Land Authority for 99 apartments on the land at 39 Braybrooke Street.
A building that slopes from five storeys to three storeys is proposed on the 3161-square-metre site and there would be two levels of basement car parking.
The site has a 42-metre frontage to Braybrooke Street, the building's corner would also face Ginninderra Drive.
While the site is planned to be solely residential the ground floor units would be designed with a taller floor-to-ceiling height to be adaptable to commercial premises.
The application has been submitted by architecture firm JUDD Studio and the developer is listed as Justar Property Group.
JUDD Studio director Nathan Judd said the development would be defined by a big courtyard. The development is "u-shaped" and is wrapped around the courtyard that would also connect to a public green space.
"There is a big strip of land between the site and Ginninderra Drive and we wanted to make virtue of that forgotten space," he said.
"We have connected our courtyard all the way through under the building to that space and we are going to provide access to the residents onto there."
The basement and ground floor footprint have been designed to allow deep-rooted planting and the building would have planter boxes, Mr Judd said.
"We have tried to plant reasonably strong trees along the perimeter so we will start to get a tree canopy wrapping the building," he said.
"We also wanted to integrate planter boxes and planting into the facade so this irrigated planter system that will flow over time and also provide a greener building in the way it looks."
Mr Judd said the building had aimed to have an energy efficiency rating of eight stars.
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The site had previously been earmarked for a $20 million hotel and housing complex. A development application for the site was approved in February 2016 but it never got off the ground. The site has since been sold.
The current application before the authority has requested the lease variation be amended so that the site was not required to have commercial accommodation.
Mr Judd, who was also involved with the original plans, said a hotel had become untenable for the site.
"Bruce is changing a little bit and there are a lot of hotels that are in Belconnen or in the city," he said.
"When they were thinking of commercial Bruce had a more certain future in terms of sporting grounds [but] now they're talking about about bringing sporting grounds to the city.
"Also the AIS is talking about divesting itself of some of its infrastructure so I think some of the reasons why that was appropriate at the time have faded and the economics of a hotel haven't actually panned out."
The public notification period for the development is open until December 2, 2020.