News & Discussion: Other Metropolitan Developments

[rhino]

Separate bathrooms and toilets are a must.

What he said.

[monotonehell]

Every place I've lived in has had bathroom and toilets combined - houses and apartments. I find the requirement that they be separate fairly minor...

Someone wants a shower at the same time as someone wants the toilet in a shared house... the situation becomes more than minor.

[iTouch]

Every place I've lived in has had bathroom and toilets combined - houses and apartments. I find the requirement that they be separate fairly minor...

Someone wants a shower at the same time as someone wants the toilet in a shared house... the situation becomes more than minor.

Such wisdom.

[monotonehell]

Every place I've lived in has had bathroom and toilets combined - houses and apartments. I find the requirement that they be separate fairly minor...

Someone wants a shower at the same time as someone wants the toilet in a shared house... the situation becomes more than minor.

Such wisdom.

Wisdom comes from experience, my son.

[Wayno]

The Graham Cornes Toyota showroom is mid-demolition. Sorry no photos - you'll just have to imagine the huge wrecking ball swinging to & fro...

Fingers crossed the new Toyota showroom is as impressive as the Solitaire Jaguar, VW & Audi centres next door.

[pushbutton]

Seems like a lot of car dealerships being demolished / rebuilt for one road!

Sorry if it's a little off-topic but I hate car dealerships too. Had a VERY bad experience once at Agostino Mitsubishi on Main North Road. I expressed a slight interest (just browsing really) in a couple of cars and 5 of them surrounded me and hussled me into a small room, where they asked me to take a seat behind a desk, with one of them sitting either side of me and three of them sitting opposite me (blocking the only doorway) and the next thing I knew they had put a contract in front of me and wouldn't take no for an answer until I actually called the police on my mobile to report that I was being held against my will!

This was about 8 years ago so they may have improved by now, but I won't be going anywhere near the place ever again.

[Prince George]

"Apartment" a USAian word (or condo in other parts of that country)

At the risk of straying a little from the topic at hand ...

In the USA, condos and apartments are distinguished by the tenancy. Condominiums are owned in common under what we would call a "strata title"; an apartment complex generally has a single owner who is then leasing each of the units in it. There's frequently no difference in the buildings themselves, it's the economics at a certain time that decides what each development becomes: right after the GFC, when sales were very low, it was common to hear about a new condo development that's "gone apartment", meaning that they didn't have enough interest from buyers so they opted to rent it all out as apartments instead.

[rhino]

New high-density suburb concepts put into practice at Woodville
SHERADYN HOLDERHEAD From: The Advertiser November 08, 2010 12:01AM

THE $130 million redevelopment of Woodville West's Housing Trust enclave is one step closer now that the State Government has called for tenders for the opening stage.
Construction of 45 homes, as part of two, four-level apartment buildings close to the railway station and a new linear park, will begin in the new year.
Housing Minister Jennifer Rankine said yesterday the selected tender process marked a significant step in the Woodville West Urban Renewal Project.
"These apartments will have a six-star environmental rating, use local products and suppliers and they will be age-friendly in design," she said.
"This will be the start of changing the face of Woodville West, where there will be a significant reduction in the concentration of public housing in the area."
The whole project will take about seven years.
140 Housing Trust homes and about 40 private houses and will be bulldozed to complete to whole project, which was expected to take seven years.
"The project will create a new neighbourhood of innovative medium and higher density residential redevelopment and provide inner suburban living for a diverse range of households including public and affordable housing options," Ms Rankine said.
She said a second tender would be issued early next year for the construction of another 24 homes including townhouses, cottage villas and studios to complete the opening stage.

[Wayno]

flythrough is up on Adelaidenow here

[Wayno]

The Pasadena Foodland shopping centre may be commencing renovations. Half of the car park is surrounded by temporary fencing. I seem to remember something about a major redevelopment being proposed a year or 3 ago. Anyone have details?

[edit] found this CRG reference to the redevelopment:

http://commercialretailgroup.com.au/?p=25

The Pasadena Shopping Centre redevelopment is well and truly starting; in about November 2010 the building will commence and Pasadena will be transformed.

The works will involve a redevelopment of the existing Centre by demolition of all existing tenancies, Mall and car parks will be replaced with a new building of approximately 5,600 square metres of retail floor space incorporating two mini major stores, specialty shops and restaurants/cafes in addition to the existing Foodland supermarket.

The proposed development will revitalise the centre, and once established will result in the best use of retail and car parking land. The existing Pasadena shopping centre is dated and the proposed development will significantly improve the visual amenity of the site, whilst also positively contributing to the vibrancy of the Pasadena neighbourhood and environment.

and http://commercialretailgroup.com.au/?page_id=73

It is evident that Pasadena Foodland serves the community in so many ways, but none better than the planned Pasadena Foodland and Shopping Centre redevelopment that will revitalise this Supermarket and the adjoining Centre. The local area will not only benefit from the Centre development but will also be serviced by a refurbished and expanded supermarket. The centre will comprise of 5600 square metres of retail floor space which will be used for two ‘mini major’ retailers, specialty shops, restaurants and cafes. The four level project will comprise of a two level basement staff/customer car park, ground level retail outlets, and, on the upper level, a place of worship for the Southland Vineyard Church. Once complete this innovative and inspiring development will begin yet another exiting chapter in the CRG.

[Will]

From the Messenger:

$49.3 million Repat upgrade

Health14 Dec 10 @ 08:30am by LISA BACHMAYER



THE Repatriation General Hospital at Daw Park would be expanded under a $49.3 million project, with work set to begin early next year.

The project is detailed in a confidential State Government document, the Development of Aged Care and Rehabilitation Facilities at Repatriation General Hospital, obtained last week by the Eastern Courier Messenger.

The report, by SA Health for Parliament’s Public Works Committee, reveals plans for the Daws Rd hospital including:

* Construction of an aged care and rehabilitation building with 120 new beds and a training and research unit;
* Additional consultation rooms, therapy rooms and staff and student areas;
* The refurbishment of a rehabilitation ward, and;
* 180 car parking spots to replace those that will make way for the new aged care and rehabilitation building.

If approved, work would start in March next year and be completed by June 2013.

The redevelopment would be partly funded by the Aged Care and Housing Group (ACH) and Flinders University to the tune of $17 million.

The State Government would fund the remaining $32.27 million, with part of the money coming from the $1.57 million sale of a block of land to the ACH Group.

The three-storey aged care training and rehabilitation block is planned for a car park and open space next to Rockville Ave.

In a Public Works Committee hearing last week, Waite MP Martin Hamilton-Smith said he was concerned about a lack of public consultation over the building’s location.

``The people living in that street will now have a hospital opposite them, where previously they probably had open space,” Mr Hamilton-Smith told the hearing.

``I just want reassurance that Mitcham Council and . . . residents in that street know that there will be a new entrance and that a lot more people will be coming and going every day outside their front.”

Mr Hamilton-Smith told the Eastern Courier Messenger he supported the Repat expansion, but wanted the plans to be deferred until residents had been consulted.

The SA Health document claimed ``extensive consultation” had taken place with the Repat and the ACH Group, but did not mention Mitcham Council or resident groups.

News of the development is in stark contrast to the furore three months ago, when leaked documents from the State Government’s Sustainable Budget Commission showed the Daw Park hospital was listed as a possible target for closure.

The State Government did not respond to a request for comment before the Eastern Courier Messenger’s deadline.

The government was due to seek approval for the development from the Public Works Committee on December 15.

[Norman]

This didn't make it into the Advertiser... hmm, maybe because it's a good news story?

[metro]

This didn't make it into the Advertiser... hmm, maybe because it's a good news story?

if anything goes slightly wrong it will be a good news story for the advertiser

[mattblack]

``The people living in that street will now have a hospital opposite them, where previously they probably had open space,” Mr Hamilton-Smith told the hearing.

WTF? The gaul of the state government to actually build a new building in a hospital precinct and create better services. The Planners at Mitcham will put there to make it compliable but all I can say is thank god that this guy isnt running the state.

[Wayno]

``The people living in that street will now have a hospital opposite them, where previously they probably had open space,” Mr Hamilton-Smith told the hearing.

WTF? The gaul of the state government to actually build a new building in a hospital precinct and create better services. The Planners at Mitcham will put there to make it compliable but all I can say is thank god that this guy isnt running the state.

No surprise here. This is in Hamilton-Smith's constituency. He's just working to avoid a backlash. Politics 101.