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Ben wrote:Seems this is dead. The liquorland store and adjacent area have been turned into a garden statue store.

That's a shame, would have nicely impacted that area.

Ben wrote:Seems this is dead. The liquorland store and adjacent area have been turned into a garden statue store.

The garden store is only a short term use for the land.

However this project is dead in its present form. The developers are contemplating building a student apartment building instead.

Will wrote:

Ben wrote:Seems this is dead. The liquorland store and adjacent area have been turned into a garden statue store.

The garden store is only a short term use for the land.

However this project is dead in its present form. The developers are contemplating building a student apartment building instead.

I should hope they forget any notion of hideous modern monstrosities, and instead focus on constructing an apartment building that celebrates the character of the area. I think a '70s-inspired box clad in old concert posters and faded signs would be quite fitting, with special corners provided in which the inebriated may urinate and break bottles, and tufts of weeds poking out from cracks in the concrete facade. Ensuring a consistent style is much more important than attempting to provide a contrast - as a rule, what's already there is always better than new, so at the very least we should be trying to make all these horrendous new impositions slightly less offensive by properly blending them into the urine-soaked, smog-caked, rubbish-covered, homeless-clad, thirty-lane West Terrace environment. And if we make it exactly the same height as everything else, it will allow all the wonderful old car dealerships and headstone manufacturers nearby to stand out even more! Sameness and uniformity are so marvellously distinctive.

Honestly, sometimes it's impossible to get through to you people and your ignorance of heritage issues.

HOW DISSAPOINTING!!

Type: Development Application Received
Application Number: DA/706/2009
Lodgement Date: 22/09/2009
Location: 121-124 West Terrace, ADELAIDE SA 5000
Description: Construct Hand car wash

Now thats the sort of shite the council should reject, as if the CBD needs a CAR Wash...
At least if it does go ahead it will be easily demolished when something better comes along.

Another car wash??? What! No need for it. There is one at the BP just a bit further up the street. There are at least 2 vacant car washes within several 100m of each other on Port Road near Findon.
I agree, the council should jump onto this one right away

ozisnowman wrote: At least if it does go ahead it will be easily demolished when something better comes along.

Exactly. I think we are being too hard on the owners of the site. I think they would have wanted to have the office block go ahead, but unfortunately with the tough lending conditions it was not to be. At least with a car wash, the owners can generate some income, whilst at the same time keeping the site available for future redevelopment. Indeed, I would have been much more dissapointed if the application had been for a 2 level office showroom.

I thought this development had finace as the Gov is taking care of it??? Maybe i was wrong!!

joshzxzx wrote:I thought this development had finace as the Gov is taking care of it??? Maybe i was wrong!!

Maybe you have confused it with the Police HQ?

Thanks will.. Your rght i did get the two muddled up..

Full steam ahead for a car washing facility in the CBD

Type: Application Assessed on Merit
Application Number: DA/706/2009/1
Lodgement Date: 22/12/2009
Location: 121-124 West Terrace, ADELAIDE SA 5000
Description: Alterations & additions to existing building and change in use to car washing facility - STAGE 1 - ALL WORKS

ADELAIDE - TOWARDS A GREATER CITY SKYLINE

Don't think of it as a car wash, think of it as a spa for cars. Ahhh, luxury.

Adelaide; city of blank walls, car parks and car washes.

It's an automobile haven!