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Ben wrote:Potential future developments:

http://video.adelaidenow.com.au/2227238 ... h-Adelaide

mattblack wrote:

Ben wrote:Potential future developments:

http://video.adelaidenow.com.au/2227238 ... h-Adelaide

What is going on with that sound track?

ml69 wrote:

mattblack wrote:

Ben wrote:Potential future developments:

http://video.adelaidenow.com.au/2227238 ... h-Adelaide

What is going on with that sound track?

I had a chuckle when I watched it .... Are they trying to promote Adelaide or a rave party??

AdelaideAlive wrote:on another note ,was just browsing through atkins architects website ,this is the company thats designing our new footbridge,and it really puts our buildings designs in to context as to how poorly an unimaginative our buildings and designs are comapred to these buildings they have designed around the world.these are truely iconic buildings.

http://www.atkinsdesign.com/atkins_port ... folio.html

ml69 wrote:

AdelaideAlive wrote:on another note ,was just browsing through atkins architects website ,this is the company thats designing our new footbridge,and it really puts our buildings designs in to context as to how poorly an unimaginative our buildings and designs are comapred to these buildings they have designed around the world.these are truely iconic buildings.

http://www.atkinsdesign.com/atkins_port ... folio.html

A point of clarification AdelaideAlive, unfortunately Atkins ARE NOT designing the footbridge, they are conducting pedestrian modelling analysis which will provide info on the optimal alignment and width of the footbridge. Then design and construction consortia will bid for the footbridge work.

Shame, Atkins could surely come up with a brilliant iconic design.

Stamp duty abolished for city apartments bought off the plan
State Editor: Greg Kelton
May 27, 2012 12:02pm

FIRST homebuyers could save more than $31,000 under a move by the State Government to abolish stamp duty on city apartments bought off the plan.

Other purchasers will save more than $21,000 under the move which will be part of Thursday's state Budget.

Premier Jay Weatherill said the cut to stamp duty would help create a more vibrant city for people to live and work and encourage higher density inner-city living.

The move was a key element of the Property Council's pre-Budget submissions.

Property Council of Australia SA executive director Nathan Paine said the Government should temporarily eliminate stamp duty for off-the-plan apartments priced under $500,000 and pointed to the first home owner grant as precedent.

"This is a model that has been used in Sydney and Melbourne, so it's not new," he said earlier this month.

"It starts to equalize some of the cost disincentives between apartments and house and land packages.

"It would also stimulate additional construction activity at a time when the industry, which is the largest employer in South Australia, is suffering from a lack of small to medium projects."

Treasurer Jack Snelling said the measure would cost the Government $5.1 million between now and 2015-16 with a full stamp duty concession for two years followed by a partial stamp duty concessions for the two years after that.

The Government has also announced that it will scrap plans to phase out the First Home Bonus Grant, which means first homebuyers who build or purchase a newly constructed home will be eligible for $8000 of state government assistance for at least another 12 months.