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"With regards" is a sign-off. I think you (and many other people) mean "regarding" or "concerning".Wayno wrote:The last point with regards number of car parks and who gets the income is apparently a sticking point...
Sorry, you are correct. My excuse - I've worked at an American company for 13 years. Anything goes. I spent 2 hours this morning scrubbing my VPs 'team vision & mission' statements. It was like this:monotonehell wrote:"With regards" is a sign-off. I think you (and many other people) mean "regarding" or "concerning".Wayno wrote:The last point with regards number of car parks and who gets the income is apparently a sticking point...
With regards,
Monotonehell,
resident pedant.
Skycity Adelaide Casino reaches carpark agreement with Walker Corp, bringing expansion step closer
A CARPARK deal has removed a roadblock to the Adelaide Casino’s planned $350m redevelopment of the riverbank precinct.
The casino will finalise its expansion plans in the coming months now it has signed a deal with Walker Corp to lease 750 spaces in the new Festival Centre carpark.
Having access to more car parks was a key requirement for the casino to go ahead with its $350 million plan.
In a statement this morning, SKYCITY chief executive Nigel Morrison said the company was pleased the State Government and Walker Corp had reached agreement on the “critical” $610 million redevelopment of the Festival Plaza precinct, including the 1560-space carpark.
“With the announcement of this development and the key terms of the car park lease now confirmed, SKYCITY can now progress its plans to transform the Adelaide Casino into a world-class integrated entertainment complex,” he said.
“We continue to explore a range of different expansion options and hope to finalise these plans over the coming months.”
Under the agreement Walker Corporation must start development of the Festival Plaza underground car park by July next year and must achieve practical completion by no later than December 31, 2018.
The Government has planned for the project to be completed within three years in hopes it would be opened before the March 2018 state election.
Mr Morrison said the plaza redevelopment was a “major step forward” in creating Adelaide’s premier entertainment, hospitality and cultural precinct.
“(It) will strongly complement the successful redevelopment of the Adelaide Oval and the significant expansion of the Adelaide Convention Centre currently being undertaken,” he said.
SKYCITY has reached agreement with Walker Corp to exclusively lease 750 spaces out of a planned total of 1560 spaces until 2035 for $4.7 million in the first year, rising with inflation each year after.
Can we just take a moment to recognise this beautiful mixed metaphor? It's almost sportspersons' worthy.A CARPARK deal has removed a roadblock to the Adelaide Casino’s planned $350m redevelopment of the riverbank precinct.
yeah good one. lol...monotonehell wrote:Can we just take a moment to recognise this beautiful mixed metaphor? It's almost sportspersons' worthy.A CARPARK deal has removed a roadblock to the Adelaide Casino’s planned $350m redevelopment of the riverbank precinct.
Yep. I just finished reading an article about Skycity's full year results, and it does mention that the performance of Adelaide casino was well below par.Ben wrote:Skycity announced their full year profits today and updated shareholders on their projects. Unfortunately sounds like this project is very far away from starting. Nothing new to report just "continued work on Adelaide redevelopment concepts". No funding has been secured for this project yet either. Its a shame we have Skycity as our operator when all the other cities have successful operators with multi billion dollar development pipeline. Imagine if we had Crown instead of Skycity. Things would be very different. The government made the wrong decision in renewing their lease as the sole operator in SA IMO. They got caught up in Skycitys spin about what they were going to do for Adelaide. Makes a change to see the tables reversed.
As far as I'm concerned all their redevelopment did was alienate the SA public and restrict access that was previously available to half their building to "VIP's". The publically accessible area of the casino is now tiny. A good third of what it was.
sad depending on how you look at it.Jaymz wrote:Yep. I just finished reading an article about Skycity's full year results, and it does mention that the performance of Adelaide casino was well below par.Ben wrote:Skycity announced their full year profits today and updated shareholders on their projects. Unfortunately sounds like this project is very far away from starting. Nothing new to report just "continued work on Adelaide redevelopment concepts". No funding has been secured for this project yet either. Its a shame we have Skycity as our operator when all the other cities have successful operators with multi billion dollar development pipeline. Imagine if we had Crown instead of Skycity. Things would be very different. The government made the wrong decision in renewing their lease as the sole operator in SA IMO. They got caught up in Skycitys spin about what they were going to do for Adelaide. Makes a change to see the tables reversed.
As far as I'm concerned all their redevelopment did was alienate the SA public and restrict access that was previously available to half their building to "VIP's". The publically accessible area of the casino is now tiny. A good third of what it was.
It also sounds like it's Darwin casino turned a bigger profit than Adelaide, a bit sad considering the difference in population between the two cities.
I completely disagree. Adelaide Casino is one of SkyCity's biggest assets (behind Auckland) I'm sure if there were an overwhelming demand and our government provided further clarity on their plans for the area SkyCity would move quicker with their own plans, unfortunately I don't think there is the demand even with the oval expansion. Adelaide's nightlife is in a weird transitional funk with the shift from shit nightclubs to boutique bars and our casino is not necessary in the most conveniently located area of our city and until there is more happening on the festival plaza I don't see thing anything picking up around there.Ben wrote:Skycity announced their full year profits today and updated shareholders on their projects. Unfortunately sounds like this project is very far away from starting. Nothing new to report just "continued work on Adelaide redevelopment concepts". No funding has been secured for this project yet either. Its a shame we have Skycity as our operator when all the other cities have successful operators with multi billion dollar development pipeline. Imagine if we had Crown instead of Skycity. Things would be very different. The government made the wrong decision in renewing their lease as the sole operator in SA IMO. They got caught up in Skycitys spin about what they were going to do for Adelaide. Makes a change to see the tables reversed.
As far as I'm concerned all their redevelopment did was alienate the SA public and restrict access that was previously available to half their building to "VIP's". The publically accessible area of the casino is now tiny. A good third of what it was.