News & Discussion: Low/Mid-Rise CBD Development

[Ben]

2009 the year of the low rise?

Type: Development Application Received
Application Number: DA/27/2009
Lodgement Date: 19/01/2009
Location: Land, 8-10 Union Street, ADELAIDE SA 5000
Description: Construct 6 level retail/accommodation building.

[Will]

2009 the year of the low rise?

Type: Development Application Received
Application Number: DA/27/2009
Lodgement Date: 19/01/2009
Location: Land, 8-10 Union Street, ADELAIDE SA 5000
Description: Construct 6 level retail/accommodation building.

I hope 8-10 Union Street is not this building. It would be such a shame to see it go. The old Sym Choon Rocket Factory building is an important building for the social heritage of the city, not to mention an interesting example of early 20th century industrial architecture.

[Ben]

By the sounds of the application it sounds like the land is already vacant for where this development is proposed?

[AtD]

The only vacant block on Union Street is the little courtyard with the new "EVERFRESH" mural. According to Google Maps, even numbers are to the east and the corner block on Ebenezer Place is number 12-16.

The only to possible sites on the east side of Union Street that I could spot, and they're both a stretch at best, is the "Everfresh" courtyard (StreetView) or the space directly above a ramp to an apartment complex's car park behind the Produce Exchange facade structure (StreetView). Both sites, especially the latter, seem very unlikely to me, and would require a very creative use of land. Everything else looks like it's either new or heritage listed, so no likely contenders for demolition.

Or, it could be the block on the corner with Rundle Street. Will mentioned it was threatened with demolition but the plan was rejected.

[monotonehell]

I think 8-10 is the empty block with the Everfresh mural for sure according to the lot numbers on google maps. It's not marked but you can see that 12 is on the other side of Ebeneezer, and where 2, 4 & 6 would be is 241 on Rundle.

[Will]

It does seem that this proposal will be for the vacant lot where the Everfresh mural is. In that case I suspect this is an ammended proposal as a response of the ACC's calls to preserve the building on the corner of Rundle Street and Union Street. As such I suspect in order to retain the historic building and make a decent return the developers will now include the proposed residential accomodation at the rear of the site in the proposed 6 level building. If this is the case, it is a great outcome!

[Will]

Type: Development Application Received
Application Number: DA/27/2009
Lodgement Date: 19/01/2009
Location: Land, 8-10 Union Street, ADELAIDE SA 5000
Description: Construct 6 level retail/accommodation building.

I've got a bit more information to add regarding this development.

The development application has been categorised as category 2. The cost of the development is expected to be $3.5 million. However the most interesting bit of info is that the development application includes the words "vacant land'. Thus it appears that this development will be for the site where the 'everfresh' mural is.

[Omicron]

Six stories and their accompanying utilities on a site the size of a postage stamp?

[rev]

That site is not even 10 meters deep from the street frontage, and maybe 15m wide.

[Ben]

The Merc on gouger sales office on Grote street has closed. Looks like this development is now dead.

[rhino]

Does anybody know what is planned for the site diagonally opposite the future Yorke Campus site? (The southeast corner of Pulteney and Angas Streets). The disused service station that was there has been bulldozed, but when I saw it last week there was no new signage up.

[Ben]

From The Messenger

Union St mural vanishing act

by Adam Todd



THE striking Union St mural painted just six months ago by internationally-renowned art collective Everfresh would be covered up under plans to build a six-storey development on vacant land in front of the feature.

A development application has been lodged with the City Council for a mixed retail/tourist accommodation building on the East End site, owned by the Maras Group, which helped enlist the collective to create the mural in July last year.

Based in Melbourne, Everfresh’s work is featured on the streets of New York, Paris, London, Tokyo and Barcelona.

The Maras Group’s Theo Maras denied blocking the mural from view compromised its attraction.

“We won’t pull it down, the mural will stay there for a lifetime and then whenever there’s a redevelopment, they’ll find it there,” he said.

Mr Maras said he had always intended to develop the land.

“The intent (of the mural) was to brighten up a drab, dreary wall with a piece of people’s art, done by people who are internationally acclaimed,” he said.

[Wayno]

simple - get the Everfresh guy back to do a 6-storey mural on the new building - presumably it will have a blank wall?

[AtD]

Or it could be incorporated into an ultra-funky lobby, complete with hole-in-the-wall coffee shop!

[rhino]

Or it could be incorporated into an ultra-funky lobby, complete with hole-in-the-wall coffee shop!

I really like this idea!