For more than seven decades, the Grollo family shaped Melbourne's skyline with concrete and ambition — building towers that became civic landmarks and a company that became a byword for serious construction. When Daniel Grollo filed for personal bankruptcy in March 2026, it marked the quiet, formal end of that era, a consequence of Grocon's 2020 collapse under $104 million in debt, itself traced to a bruising legal war with a government infrastructure body over a Sydney development that the company could not survive. The story of Grocon is, in part, the story of how even institutions built ove