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by JAKJ
Tue Jun 20, 2023 12:31 am
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Trams
Replies: 5225
Views: 1522477

Re: News & Discussion: Trams

Tram down O'Connell may have been done already if not for the KWR bridge, the ultimate can kicked down the road that ACC, State and Fed can't agree on who should pay what. It needs to be repaired/ rebuilt before you can send a tram over it. I remember quotes form about 10 or so years ago were around ...
by JAKJ
Tue Jun 20, 2023 12:21 am
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Trams
Replies: 5225
Views: 1522477

Re: News & Discussion: Trams



Wild idea, but what would people think of a compromise where we can have dual tram lanes on O'Connell Street, that yes, would reduce it to one lane in each direction for traffic - but if LeFevre Terrace was duplicated and Main North Road redirected into LeFevre Terrace and then the road ...
by JAKJ
Tue May 30, 2023 4:05 am
Forum: CBD Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Low/Mid-Rise CBD Development
Replies: 1993
Views: 885835

Re: News & Discussion: Low/Mid-Rise CBD Development



Adelaide City Council plans go-ahead for nine-storey tower

A 26-apartment, nine-storey tower will be the subject of a North Adelaide residents protest at Adelaide City Council tonight.

The project, proposed by the Walter Partnership, is for the current run down 1972 office site at 12-16 ...
by JAKJ
Thu Jun 24, 2021 2:30 pm
Forum: CBD Development
Topic: [U/C] 88 O'Connell Street | 63m | 13, 13 and 15 Levels | Mixed Use
Replies: 1359
Views: 523527

[U/C] Re: Former LeCornu Redevelopment | Mixed Use

Comparison to the CBD of a major city is not fair. Adelaide has plenty of space on the CBD fringe to expand high rise residential and commercial (Bowden, West End and Coca Cola for example) which have much better transport connections and similar proximity. There is currently no competitive demand ...
by JAKJ
Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:56 pm
Forum: CBD Development
Topic: [U/C] 88 O'Connell Street | 63m | 13, 13 and 15 Levels | Mixed Use
Replies: 1359
Views: 523527

[U/C] Re: Former LeCornu Redevelopment | Mixed Use

I'm not sure how I feel about this. Development at the site is good but the scale is inappropriate. Apart from the North Adelaide village across the road once these towers are built there is no opportunity to build anything even approaching their height in the vicinity. Like it or not North Adelaide ...
by JAKJ
Thu Feb 06, 2020 4:48 pm
Forum: CBD Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands
Replies: 854
Views: 348641

Re: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands


I understand/accept your points JAKJ. I am not aligned either to or against the AFC proposal. I am neutral. However what I am thinking about is how to get a new Aquatic centre built for the benefit of all the public without the burden being on the ACC and it’s ratepayers.

So what if the operation ...
by JAKJ
Thu Feb 06, 2020 4:43 pm
Forum: CBD Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands
Replies: 854
Views: 348641

Re: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands



"We won't be bullied" on Aquatic Centre revamp: Hyde

https://indaily.com.au/news/local/2020/02/04/we-wont-be-bullied-on-aquatic-centre-revamp-hyde/


The Crows project absolutely should not occur, and if the State Government and neighboring councils don't want to fund the aquatic centre, shut ...
by JAKJ
Thu Feb 06, 2020 2:03 pm
Forum: CBD Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands
Replies: 854
Views: 348641

Re: News & Discussion: Squares and Parklands


"We won't be bullied" on Aquatic Centre revamp: Hyde

https://indaily.com.au/news/local/2020/02/04/we-wont-be-bullied-on-aquatic-centre-revamp-hyde/


The Crows project absolutely should not occur, and if the State Government and neighboring councils don't want to fund the aquatic centre, shut it ...
by JAKJ
Fri Dec 13, 2019 4:19 pm
Forum: CBD Development
Topic: News & Discussion: CBD Retail
Replies: 4061
Views: 1403609

Re: News & Discussion: CBD Retail




Cost wise, $10-40m to bulldoze, $300-400m to rebuild.


This is fanciful.

By way of comparison, the old RAH is costing $180-200 million to demolish. Admittedly, that includes remediation, but then again: the Myer Centre takes up an entire city block.

Not only is there zero logic to this ...
by JAKJ
Thu Dec 12, 2019 12:09 pm
Forum: Events in South Australia
Topic: Adelaide Oval news and events
Replies: 288
Views: 155385

Re: Adelaide Oval news and events




A couple of months back I raised the concern about Adelaide Oval slipping down the pecking order and was the for the most part howled down on this forum.


No-one denied that other cities were getting events, the debate was entirely over whether Adelaide simply having more seats would have ...
by JAKJ
Fri Nov 15, 2019 4:19 pm
Forum: CBD Development
Topic: [SWP] Lot 14 (Old RAH Site)
Replies: 1194
Views: 481896

[SWP] Re: Lot 14 (Old RAH Site)

Where is that render from?
by JAKJ
Mon Nov 04, 2019 4:38 pm
Forum: Infrastructure/Transport Development
Topic: News & Discussion: Electricity Infrastructure
Replies: 2260
Views: 648720

Re: News & Discussion: Electricity Infrastructure




…. energy minister Angus Taylor attending the opening of a large generator in Australia for the first time since his appointment last August .

(He did attend the opening of the Thunderbolt run-of-river hydro power station in Tasmania last week, but that facility is sized at less than 1MW and ...
by JAKJ
Sat Oct 12, 2019 10:45 am
Forum: CBD Development
Topic: [COM] Adelaide Oval Hotel
Replies: 691
Views: 230976

[COM] Re: Adelaide Oval Hotel


Adelaide Oval Hotel :wallbash: :wallbash: :wallbash:


Yep. I really hope it isn't going to turn into as much of a disaster as the renders predict, this is a slipshod, half-arsed development which looks like ruining the Eastern aspect of the oval.

The dogged persistence of showing non-opaque ...
by JAKJ
Fri Oct 11, 2019 4:27 pm
Forum: CBD Development
Topic: News & Discussion: CBD Retail
Replies: 4061
Views: 1403609

Re: News & Discussion: CBD Retail




Chemist Warehouse progress at the end of Rundle Mall today:

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by JAKJ
Fri Oct 11, 2019 4:23 pm
Forum: CBD Development
Topic: [COM] Adelaide Oval Hotel
Replies: 691
Views: 230976

[COM] Re: Adelaide Oval Hotel





Can't have a State Minister making a statement that says ' the best ' - see the word 'the' - he didn't make a subjective statement - he made an actual statement, one that is incorrect. He needed to stick to the positives of having a unique situation with a hotel attached to a major sporting ...