[COM] 52-66 King William Street | 65m | 15 Levels | Southern Cross Arcade

[SBD]

Ahhhh, thanks peeps for mentioning City Central and Lot 14. Now i'm not doubting they are great develpments, but one has the backing of the National Space Agency and the other has the Australian Taxation Office and the Attorney General's office as their major tenants.

You are dismissing Adelaide developments because they have federal government agencies in them. Would you be happier of those offices were in Canberra or Sydney? I expect Adelaide competes just as hard for them as it does for significant back offices of any private company with sites all over the country.

Canberra is a terrible example to use, they do not live on the same playing field as the rest of the country. As if they don't have an ATO building, every major city in Australia does. It would be dumb not to.

Canberra is a relevant example when we are discussing federal government departments. Keeping them all in the same city as the government with just a few field outposts in those departments that need them would be plausible.

[citywatcher]

Should have kept all 3 buildings in my opinion. Food hall was thriving.
Character on the city's main thoroughfare .
Plenty of room round the city for this monstrosity full of useless public servants

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[gnrc_louis]

Should have kept all 3 buildings in my opinion. Food hall was thriving.
Character on the city's main thoroughfare .
Plenty of room round the city for this monstrosity full of useless public servants

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I wouldn't describe the administration of social security as "useless." Considering the amount of people on the age pension, youth allowance, parenting payments etc, I would say it's actually one of the most critical of all the Federal Government departments/agencies. We also saw the catastrophic consequences when the government removed "useless" public servants from conducting human oversight of the ill fated "robodebt" program.

[cmet]

Should have kept all 3 buildings in my opinion. Food hall was thriving.
Character on the city's main thoroughfare .
Plenty of room round the city for this monstrosity full of useless public servants

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The place was a dark run down hole.

Typical Adelaide mentality on display here.

[citywatcher]

Should have kept all 3 buildings in my opinion. Food hall was thriving.
Character on the city's main thoroughfare .
Plenty of room round the city for this monstrosity full of useless public servants

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The place was a dark run down hole.

Typical Adelaide mentality on display here.

Cliche
Same back at you

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[Mpol02]

My Aunty works in a hairdressing salon in this precinct and it will be closing in a few months to accomodate the development.

Fun times.

[Columbo]

Went for a wander through Southern Cross today it's looking pretty sad now.
It seems a few of the food places are still hanging in (the bakery/coffee shop, bing boy and the steakhouse at least, but the latter is closing next week) a couple that have closed were having the fixtures and fittings removed today. A couple of them have signs up saying they are planning to reopen elsewhere.
The newsagent looks like it's just about done, the Physio has a new location on the door, the hairdresser opposite the newsagent left last week, Cheap as Chips the week before.

[AndyWelsh]

This scaffolding for this development or something else? I didn’t have time to have a look around.



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[SRW]

This scaffolding for this development or something else? I didn’t have time to have a look around.



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For the development. Demolition has commenced and is moving at pace on both this James Place building (they've started from rear/Imperial Place) and 66 King William.

[AndyWelsh]

Cheers SRW. Good to know.


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[Norman]

The whole site is now fenced off and all the shops in the arcade are closed.

[AndyWelsh]

The whole site is now fenced off and all the shops in the arcade are closed.

Steven Marshall and Charter Hall were there today to mark the official start.


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[AndyWelsh]

From today:




Hadn’t quite realised how wide this whole development site will be:






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[Nort]

Well it's definitely happening now. Just hope that the new development and its higher end aims manages to bring in lots of foot traffic that keeps James Place feeling lively.

[Honey of a City]

Reckon the demolition will be fairly quick.