News & Discussion: Other Metropolitan Developments

[Allkai]

The recommencement wheels are slowly starting to turn I believe.......

[Wayno]

Not sure if this warrants its own thread:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009 ... 536949.htm

Six hectares of the Fort Largs police academy land at Taperoo is to be sold for housing.

The sale is part of a plan for a new $59 million police academy at the site.

The Police Minister, Michael Wright, says the land sale will help pay for the academy redevelopment.

"It's about 6.38 hectares that will be sold off and in regard to what proportion it will be, obviously we're not going to disclose what our market price may well be, but it's obviously fairly prime real estate in this area and we would expect a significant return," he said.

The South Australian police commissioner, Mal Hyde, says currently a lot of land at the academy is not used.

"Somebody said to me 'the academy's going to be smaller because ... the land available is going to be smaller', that's not the way to look at it," he said.

"It's about building a facility which is going to be necessary for what you need, we've got a lot of land here that we just don't use."

Mr Hyde says the new academy will have a gymnasium, accommodation block, teaching auditorium and scenario village, which will have a replica bank to help cadets with their training.

He says the redevelopment will be finished by the end of 2011.

"I think it's really an excellent proposal and I don't think there's any deficiencies because we may not have the same amount of open space," he said.

The mayor of Port Adelaide and Enfield, Gary Johanson, says any housing development on the Fort Largs site will have to skirt around heritage-listed buildings.

"I think a good quality development would certainly be of benefit to the sea front, it is certainly dated, some of those old cream brick buildings that are there," he said.

"Some of it though is definitely heritage, that would obviously be preserved there."

The Government has also announced it has extended Mr Hyde's contract for another three years.

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&sour ... 6&t=h&z=15

[stumpjumper]

It's often been said that the most dangerous place in SA is between a piece of vacant land and the Treasurer.

I'm wondering about the strips of garden down the side of Parliament House. Surely some sort of subdivision is possible there. It's a prime location.

[AtD]

^^ I also hear the Treasurer eats babies.

[Brando]

Work should begin on this one after Easter monday.

[Xaragmata]

Another site on Port Road that doesn't appear to have a dedicated thread, & I can't find much
apart from the signage on site - two office buildings & conversion of church to offices at
153 to 159 Port Rd ...

Former church near Chief Street Brompton, being converted to offices




Offices under construction at 159 Port Road, west of the church






153 Port Road, not shown, is east of the church.

[monotonehell]

Xaragmata, I really enjoy your photos, both new and old, but I have a request. Could you only put the pretty green frames on the historical ones? As it confuses poor Wayno.

I've been following this site for what seems like ages, are they finally underway?

[Wayno]

Xaragmata, I really enjoy your photos, both new and old, but I have a request. Could you only put the pretty green frames on the historical ones? As it confuses poor Wayno.

ouch! *crawls under desk*

[monotonehell]

Xaragmata, I really enjoy your photos, both new and old, but I have a request. Could you only put the pretty green frames on the historical ones? As it confuses poor Wayno.

ouch! *crawls under desk*

*kicks desk*

Well yes it confuses me also sometimes. >.>

[Xaragmata]

Xaragmata, I really enjoy your photos, both new and old, but I have a request. Could you only put the pretty green frames on the historical ones? As it confuses poor Wayno.

Heh - I could probably change the frames if I knew what I was doing ...

I've been following this site for what seems like ages, are they finally underway?

Yes, piling is underway on #159, and internal refurb of the church, as far as I can tell.

Here's a bit from the Charles Sturt DAP minutes - 18 March 2008

HINDMARSH WARD
3.10* 153-159 PORT ROAD & 12 EAST STREET, HINDMARSH (252/2876/07) 1
Applicant: Mossop Group Pty Ltd
Proposal
Alterations and additions to an existing office building (State Heritage Listed) and the construction of two 3 storey
office buildings with associated car parking (including a car parking deck) and landscaping together with the removal
of three significant trees. [...]

[stumpjumper]

AtD, it's not as if I'm out to blacken the Treasurer's name or anything.

[Allkai]

Work should begin on this one after Easter monday.

Correct, but how long after!

The new builder is gearing up now to be on site very shortly.

[mattblack]

Believe it or not, i actually saw a guy onsite today

[Allkai]

I saw a couple yesterday!

[omada]

I work on Greenhill road and often stroll past, the only living entities I have seen on this site are a family of rats scurrying about the place , which were actually rather cute!