Mt Eliza Aged Care and Retirement Village

An ideal location

• 60-70 Kunyung Road, Mt Eliza, is an 8.9 hectare site directly adjacent to the established Mt Eliza residential area.
• The site has previously been used as a private retreat, a public hotel and an education centre (most recently as the Mt Eliza Business School).
• The property is already extensively developed with a 42-room mansion, accommodation blocks, employee housing, storage buildings and internal roads.

Restoring a heritage treasure

The Moondah Mansion is more than 130 years old and will be restored to its former glory as part of Ryman’s village development.

• Ryman has already spent $800,000 restoring the property’s historic gatehouse.
• Careful design ensures that Moondah Mansion will retain its significance on the site, as the main building and centre of village activities.
• The 42-room Victorian mansion was built for James Grice in 1888. Sir Reginald “Reg” Ansett bought Moondah in 1947 and transformed the building into a 5-star luxury hotel.
• It was run as an education centre from 1957, most recently as the Mt Eliza Business School.
• Ryman purchased the property from the University of Melbourne in 2016.

Creating local jobs

250
construction jobs

The Ryman village will create 250 jobs during its construction. Our construction team always prefers local subcontractors and suppliers wherever possible, which will create local jobs and help spur Victoria’s post-COVID economic recovery.

200
permanent jobs

Once open, the village will create more than 200 permanent jobs for locals in aged care and activities, housekeeping and catering, gardening and maintenance as well as management and administration.

support
for local businesses

The village will also support local Peninsula businesses including florists, food and beverage suppliers, healthcare providers, and entertainers.

Meeting community needs

Older Mt Eliza locals have worked hard all their lives, contributed to their community, and want to stay close to family, friends and social networks in the place they love.  Ryman’s Mt Eliza project will allow them to do just that – in a beautiful, green village close to all local amenities and with the historic Moondah Mansion at its heart.

Mt Eliza has an ageing population, a strong demand for residential aged care, and a lack of supply. 

Right now in the proposed village’s catchment area there is already an undersupply of aged care of almost 200 residential beds. If no more aged care beds come online, the shortfall will be more than 1,500 beds by 2032.

Mt Eliza Timeline

A Ryman Village

Ryman villages, such as our proposed Mt Eliza village, are purpose-built and operated to become part of the communities they serve.

Villages enable residents to stay in the communities they have lived in, worked in and brought their families up in – places where they have put down roots.

In a Ryman village, couples can take comfort in the knowledge that if they have different health needs they can still be cared for within the same village, and in the same community they know and love.

Ryman Healthcare began with a vision: to improve the way older people lived and to provide aged care at a standard that was only acceptable when it was good enough for your own Mum and Dad.

Ryman is an operator, not a developer, in retirement living and aged care. And we’re here for the long haul to meet the needs of the Mt Eliza community.

To find out more about living in a Ryman village, download our free guide.