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how good is he wrote:I think the govt has kept back 12 hectares/30% of the development to still be decided upon. However this could still come to little.... I guess while I understand your points about high rise, I am unsure if there is enough buyer demand to support it. Many owners still are deep underwater from prices paid for apartments some 6 - 8 years ago.

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Sunday, September 11 at 9 AM - 2 PM The Flour Shed, Mundy Street, Port Adelaide.

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WHARF WAR: Port Adelaide residents have vowed to continue the fight to save the Fisherman's Wharf Market, after it was rejected for a spot on the state's heritage register. It's to be demolished, to make way for apartments.

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Developer Hans Ehmann’s Port Adelaide facelift plans include $200m project at Queen’s Wharf
Richard Evans, The Advertiser
September 10, 2016 12:00am

“IF heritage alone was enough to bring hordes of people here, they would have come already,” says the man behind a proposed, and new, $200 million plan to revamp the cultural and commercial heart of Port Adelaide.

It’s fair comment from Hans Ehmann, a man who has been waiting much of his life he says for the right moment to reinvigorate a place that, at times, can be something of a forgotten outpost.

“In the 1900s Port Adelaide was thriving, it had the first street with electric lighting in South Australia and it grew and grew. Somewhere along the way it has missed out but it can get back its former glory,” Mr Ehmann said.

His proposals to achieve this are ambitious. A brand new and bubbling precinct on the south bank of the Port Adelaide river is the intent, with a mix of residential, commercial, entertainment and community elements aimed at convincing 750 people to put down roots on the largely unused Queen’s Wharf.

The development will lead to three residential buildings and a full service hotel over the next three years along the site where the Fisherman’s Wharf market currently sits.

Among the proposals are a residential building of 54 apartments, another of 70 apartments and eight townhouses and a further building made up of a 100 room, full service hotel plus 39 apartments.

The cultural is not neglected, with a heritage exhibition and conference area incorporating part of the Fisherman’s Wharf shed, to be incorporated into the new hotel near the landmark Port Adelaide lighthouse.

Full and proper use of commercial space will be imperative to the rebirth of Port Adelaide said Mr Ehmann with the introduction of a stable population to the area integral to extending Port hours and fast tracking economic and social growth.

“Port Adelaide is currently only economically active one or two days per week. This development will extend this to seven days per week,” Mr Ehmann said.

The new Quest hotel at the western end of Queens Wharf — which will open to the public in November — has been the catalyst he said.

“I have been sitting on this property for 30 years, waiting for the right tenant to come along with a vision. There was never a chance this would be developed into two storey townhouses,” Mr Ehmann said.

“Quest has started a wave of development in Port Adelaide and this initiative will maintain the momentum and contribute significantly to its rise as a highly desirable city to live in as well as cementing its reputation as a tourist destination.

“This development creates the opportunity for residents to enjoy a contemporary lifestyle in arguably the most significant setting in our state. It is a huge opportunity for Port Adelaide to regain its status as a city, rather than just another suburb,” he said.

The influx of the 750 residents to the Queen’s Wharf area will also help build a momentum to convert under-utilised building space in the surrounding streets into viable commercial and retail estate opportunities he said.

“If all goes according to plan, we could eventually see Port Adelaide’s laneways fill with cafes and bars as they have in Melbourne.”

The potential benefits are immense said Property Council of Australia SA executive director Daniel Gannon.

“This substantial development investment in Port Adelaide will mean more hard hats and steel caps for South Australians, along with economic development and stimulus for our state’s economy,” Mr Gannon said.

“Catering for a day and evening economy is a sensible approach in any jurisdiction but it is particularly important for Port Adelaide at a time of revitalisation and renewal,” he said.

“We now need our local government based planning system to keep up with private sector vision, which means a properly resourced planning system to enable new developments getting off the ground quickly. The last thing we need is a lethargic or adversarial system that doesn’t meet the vision, and a system that builds development barriers rather than enablers.”

Mr Ehmann’s Neville Smith Group (part of his Smith Motor Group) will lead the development with plans to be lodged with the Development Assessment Commission later this year with a view to work beginning early in 2017.

The heritage component has not been ignored.

The development will integrate with the splendour of Customs House, which dates back to 1879 and sits behind Queen’s Wharf, via a public plaza which will connect it with the wharf’s residential development and hotel.

“The plaza will bring Customs House into public focus,” Mr Ehmann said.

Indeed it will, with plans to turn the ground floor into a brauhaus (brewery or beer hall) with function rooms and access to the catacomb cellars. Mr Ehmann has also had talks with the council to usher in the creative crowd and create numerous art spaces on the floor above the beer swillers.

This space, as well as the area around the Port Adelaide lighthouse, will become a hub for all kinds of exhibitions, fairs and pop-up entertainment Mr Ehmann said.

The Fisherman’s Wharf market, in the longer term, will also be on the move with an application lodged to eventually have the shed demolished, albeit in stages. The market will be cut back in size slightly in two to three years’ time to make way for the first building in the new development.

“The market is one of Port’s longest standing attractions and represents a livelihood to many people. We have identified several potential sites for its eventual relocation,” Mr Ehmann said.

A new home, which will be several years away, would likely be nearer to or adjacent the high density development proposed by developer Starfish on both sides of the soon to be revitalised No 1 Dock, Mr Ehmann said.

“There is no intention to close the market and the market will not be compelled to relocate for at least seven years from now.”

The increase in traffic will be accounted for through a multi storey car park for 400 cars behind the Queen’s Wharf.

Mr Ehmann has been a staple of Port Adelaide property investment for four decades now and the time to stride forward has come he said.

He tells the story of a recent Thursday night in a Port Adelaide pub and a punter stopping to talk about his efforts to move the area upwards. An altercation, not acknowledgment, had been in his mind initially he said.

If they see someone is going out on a limb, Port Adelaide people will back you said Mr Ehmann.

“But it’s a risky business.”

From https://www.facebook.com/CityOfPAE/

HISTORIC JERVOIS BRIDGE CONTROL TOWER ON THE MOVE.

The original Jervois Bridge was opened in 1878 as the only link between the Port and the Le Fevre Peninsula. The swing mechanism on the original bridge was controlled by a person sitting in the wooden Control Tower on top of the steel gantry that crossed the road. That Control Tower is the last remnant of the original Jervois Bridge and for many years, has arched over the entrance to the public car park on Nile Street.

The new home will be on the wharf at Harts Mill, right next to its original home.

Port Adelaide market sheds set to be bulldozed.
The state's peak planning authority has approved the demolition of the Fishermen's Wharf market sheds in the heart of Port Adelaide.
http://indaily.com.au/news/local/2016/1 ... bulldozed/

thejoebloggsblog wrote:For those who don't want to see Shed 1 demolished, instead refurbished in a similar style to the 'Watershed' (pictured) sign the petition below.

PETITION ---> https://www.change.org/p/sa-heritage-co ... t-adelaide