[COM] 104-106 Currie Street | 117m | 33lvl | Sofitel Hotel

[Blimp]

Its the sleek glass tower our skylines been crying out for! Fingers crossed it all comes into fruition.

[skyliner]

Fantastic looking building. Sleek, imposing. It seems there are more and more 30+ proposals where once such bldgs were extremely rare and over a long time. The ones coming to mind are Kudo, this one, the one on Frome St, The Trims site and I believe one more on Pirie St. Vue seems to have been the initial one of the tallies. Combined usages look to be the go (hotels/resi/retail).

I read recently (AFR) that our resi level development is about 10th of the eastern capitals but there appears to be a catching up going on here as well as a cultural shift towards this - enhanced by the nature of the overall CBD development and activities.

ADELAIDE - TOWARDS A GREATER CBD SKYLINE

[floplo]

Adelaide will gain a new Accor hotel in 2018 with the opening of the Sofitel Adelaide on Currie Street in the city’s CBD.

Demolition and construction will be at least 2 years and given that it's a big project there will most likely be delays and
cost blow outs.

If this is going to open in 2018, then surely they'll have to start demolition / construction in January next year.

So that would mean the sales office will be open for only 3 months ??

I find it hard to believe it's going to be open by 2018

It's on realestate.com.au now, with an estimated completion date of Dec 2019

[Jaymz]

Must admit i'm slightly concerned this one now has apartments included, as opposed to a stand-alone hotel. Don't get me wrong, no one would like to live at the top of Adelaide's tallest resi building more than me.

It's just that with such a large number of apartment developments either proposed or coming online in a softening apartment market, I hope this one won't hinge on selling most of these before being able to proceed. And being at the top of a 5 star hotel, i'm assuming they won't be on the affordable side.

Anyways, I hope I get proved wrong because this a fine looking building.

[Smithy85]

Fairly sure this was always going to have apartments included? Either way I think there are only approx. 70.... So with Sofitel/Accor already signed up I wouldn't have thought a huge % of pre-sales would be required for this to get going.

[ghs]

Must admit i'm slightly concerned this one now has apartments included, as opposed to a stand-alone hotel. Don't get me wrong, no one would like to live at the top of Adelaide's tallest resi building more than me.

It's just that with such a large number of apartment developments either proposed or coming online in a softening apartment market, I hope this one won't hinge on selling most of these before being able to proceed. And being at the top of a 5 star hotel, i'm assuming they won't be on the affordable side.

Anyways, I hope I get proved wrong because this a fine looking building.

This proposal has always included apartments. Given that the hotel will take up 24 levels, the building is already 75% sold.
Sofitel signed up to this project more then 12 months ago. They won't want to wait around forever.

[Hybrid]

sales office is now open

http://www.luminesquelife.com.au/

[Ben]

sales office is now open

http://www.luminesquelife.com.au/

Has been since September

[rev]

I'm hoping that when complete the top is lit up at night(all night) like in the render. Hopefully that starts a domino effect and more buildings and new proposals do similar. I think that aspect alone will have a dramatic change and impact on not only the skyline obviously but a positive to people's perceptions.

[YellowRoad]

I agree 100%, the Adelaide skyline is seriously missing some light & colour. Hopefully its the first of many!

[rev]

I agree 100%, the Adelaide skyline is seriously missing some light & colour. Hopefully its the first of many!

I've taken friends from interstate up to Mt Lofty at night, despite barely being able to identify the CBD, it's a pretty darn good view up there at night.
But if the CBD was lit up, with buildings having lighting effects/features, it would be an even better view.

[Nathan]

I agree 100%, the Adelaide skyline is seriously missing some light & colour. Hopefully its the first of many!

I've taken friends from interstate up to Mt Lofty at night, despite barely being able to identify the CBD, it's a pretty darn good view up there at night.
But if the CBD was lit up, with buildings having lighting effects/features, it would be an even better view.

I don't think you need fancy lighting effects. We just need to build up the edges of the parklands (both sides) so that it's much more defined.

[gmf]

Looks like they've sold about 23 of the 72 apartments in Luminesque

[Ben]

According to real estate.com estimated completion is now December 2019!! That's 3 years away. I guess they don't plan on starting any time soon which is bizarre given the strong sales and hotel pre commitment. It is "estimated" though. I imagine that would be a tough sell to potential purchasers.

[floplo]

According to real estate.com estimated completion is now December 2019!! That's 3 years away. I guess they don't plan on starting any time soon which is bizarre given the strong sales and hotel pre commitment. It is "estimated" though. I imagine that would be a tough sell to potential purchasers.

As far as I understood the developer, Palumbo, wants to complete the current project in Kent Town first, which should happen late this year, before starting this.