Two of the ACT's government's most prominent office blocks will hit the market this year to take advantage of millions of dollars in federal government bonuses.
The Dickson Motor Vehicle Registry and the Dame Pattie Menzies House will be sold this year to capitalise on the federal government's asset recycling scheme and free up lucrative space along the light rail corridor.
Tenders closed for the motor registry on December 15 and are currently being evaluated, an ACT government spokesman said.
The tender for the sale included a pre-commitment to lease a new purpose-built 13,000 square metre office building.
The motor registry and motor vehicle inspection station will move to a new facility currently being built at Hume.
Dame Pattie Menzies House was released to the market on January 21 with tenders to close in March.
The government will lease back the facility until a new government office block at Dickson is built, the spokesman said.
Under the $5 billion asset recycling scheme, states and territories will receive 15 per cent of the sale price to reinvest in new public assets, namely light rail.
The $105 million sale of ACTTAB was the first proposal put forward by the territory although the sale of the street light network did not get up (the ACT government is still looking to outsource its management however).
However the sale of the old and construction of the new assets must be finished by June 30, 2019.
In line with this, Health's Moore Street headquarters will be released to the market in 2017/18, with Macarthur House on Northbourne Avenue to hit the market in 2018/19.
Meanwhile hundreds of ACT public servants will finally relocate to Woden in coming weeks as the fit-out for their new office block is finalised.
Only 150 of the 600 ACT Health staff have moved into the Bowes Street office, as the directorate's quarters at Moore Street in Civic is emptied for sale.
Those staff relocated to the southside offices in March last year, as part of plans to bring together non-clinical and administration workers in the same location and revitalise Woden's ailing town centre.
Now the refurbishment is almost done, the rest of the staff are soon to follow, an ACT government spokesman said.
However staff were expected to be settled in at the new offices by Christmas 2016.
Woden Valley Community Council president Fiona Carrick said the council would take issue with the government if the move was further delayed.
"It is being constantly pushed back but we are looking forward to the public servants arriving," Ms Carrick said.
More than 350 staff are expected to start work at the new Access Canberra shop front in the Cosmopolitan Building at the Woden Interchange next month as well.