[PRO] North Terrace/Morphett Street | Trinity City | ~105m | 27 Levels | Office

[floplo]

Though the images provided to Advertiser look slightly different than the ones on the project website, https://trinitycity.com.au/ .....

A lot more glass on the façade and revealing a surprising amount of car parking for a student housing tower right next to the university campus.....
Though the website ones feature the new Adelaide Uni logo, so I guess they might actually be more up-to-date (unless the uni got brand conscious before any official agreements with the developer).

[VinyTapestry849]

This appears now to be a student housing complex....

Trinity Church site set for $350m student tower
Adelaide’s largest student accommodation facility would tower above the state’s oldest church as a part of a new $350m vision for a historic CBD site.




Adelaide’s largest student accommodation facility, and one of the city’s tallest buildings, would tower above the state’s oldest church as a part of a new $350m vision for a historic CBD site.

Developers have gone back to the drawing board and unveiled new plans for the site, including a 33-storey student accommodation tower with more than 1000 beds to be built on a car park behind Trinity Church on North Tce.

The project would also feature a landscaped plaza and upgrades to heritage buildings used by the church, which was built in 1838, making it the first church built in South Australia and one of the oldest buildings in the city.

Local developers 1835 Property and Marlborough Capital were previously working on plans for a $450m 28-storey health and medical research hub and office tower.

But 1835 Property managing director Jason Di Iulio said they were now looking to capitalise on the merged Adelaide University and its target of attracting an additional 6000 international students by 2030.

“Where young people choose to study is not just about tuition, but the experience of university life,” he said.

“Students want world class facilities coupled with a supportive environment, which is what this development is designed to achieve.

“88 North Terrace will be an Adelaide landmark with its uninterrupted 360-degree views. The expansion of Adelaide’s biomedical precinct, together with the merger of The University of Adelaide and University of South Australia, make this development a huge opportunity for the city.”

The project has been lodged with the State Commission Assessment Panel for planning approval, with construction expected to commence in the middle of next year and completion in 2027, ready for the 2028 academic year.

With more than 1000 beds, the facility would trump the Y Suites Waymouth Street complex – which has 813 beds – as the city’s largest student accommodation tower, and is also larger than the proposed development at the Crown & Anchor hotel site.

Mr Di Iulio said exemptions from the federal government’s cap on international students for South Australian universities would drive new student accommodation developments in the city, with property firm JLL recently warning Adelaide faces a shortfall of up to 2000 beds over the next five years.

The North Tce project has the blessing of the Trinity Network of Churches – an evangelical Anglican network with 14 campuses across the state.

“We see this partnership to develop our site as a wonderful opportunity to enhance our ministry to the people of the city of Adelaide as well as international and local students,” senior pastor Paul Harrington said.

“This development will place us at the heart of a vibrant university precinct as well as provide an opportunity to redeploy some of our resources into the growing network of churches we have across metropolitan Adelaide and regional South Australia”.

Might actually revitalised Trinity Church and bring more worshippers and visitors is to it

[abc]

This appears now to be a student housing complex....

Trinity Church site set for $350m student tower
Adelaide’s largest student accommodation facility would tower above the state’s oldest church as a part of a new $350m vision for a historic CBD site.




Adelaide’s largest student accommodation facility, and one of the city’s tallest buildings, would tower above the state’s oldest church as a part of a new $350m vision for a historic CBD site.

Developers have gone back to the drawing board and unveiled new plans for the site, including a 33-storey student accommodation tower with more than 1000 beds to be built on a car park behind Trinity Church on North Tce.

The project would also feature a landscaped plaza and upgrades to heritage buildings used by the church, which was built in 1838, making it the first church built in South Australia and one of the oldest buildings in the city.

Local developers 1835 Property and Marlborough Capital were previously working on plans for a $450m 28-storey health and medical research hub and office tower.

But 1835 Property managing director Jason Di Iulio said they were now looking to capitalise on the merged Adelaide University and its target of attracting an additional 6000 international students by 2030.

“Where young people choose to study is not just about tuition, but the experience of university life,” he said.

“Students want world class facilities coupled with a supportive environment, which is what this development is designed to achieve.

“88 North Terrace will be an Adelaide landmark with its uninterrupted 360-degree views. The expansion of Adelaide’s biomedical precinct, together with the merger of The University of Adelaide and University of South Australia, make this development a huge opportunity for the city.”

The project has been lodged with the State Commission Assessment Panel for planning approval, with construction expected to commence in the middle of next year and completion in 2027, ready for the 2028 academic year.

With more than 1000 beds, the facility would trump the Y Suites Waymouth Street complex – which has 813 beds – as the city’s largest student accommodation tower, and is also larger than the proposed development at the Crown & Anchor hotel site.

Mr Di Iulio said exemptions from the federal government’s cap on international students for South Australian universities would drive new student accommodation developments in the city, with property firm JLL recently warning Adelaide faces a shortfall of up to 2000 beds over the next five years.

The North Tce project has the blessing of the Trinity Network of Churches – an evangelical Anglican network with 14 campuses across the state.

“We see this partnership to develop our site as a wonderful opportunity to enhance our ministry to the people of the city of Adelaide as well as international and local students,” senior pastor Paul Harrington said.

“This development will place us at the heart of a vibrant university precinct as well as provide an opportunity to redeploy some of our resources into the growing network of churches we have across metropolitan Adelaide and regional South Australia”.

Might actually revitalised Trinity Church and bring more worshippers and visitors is to it

maybe if they fill it with Filipino students... not so much with Chinese

[Patrick_27]

Lame outcome. Personally I’d have liked to see the CBD TAFE campus relocate here, opening up their current site on Currie Street for a multi-tower development, or better yet, a further expansion of Flinders University’s footprint in the CBD. This just seems like a short term solution to get the building off the ground. One day soon, perhaps not within the next five to ten years, but not too far into the future, our tertiary education system in Australia won’t be so lucrative and we’re going to be lumped with A LOT of student accommodation buildings where the likelihood of conversion to residential buildings will be deemed too costly or difficult.

[Prodical]

Agreed - a real dumbing down of both purpose and Architectual merit.

Another thousand small living spaces that will be redundant when the easy shortcut to Australian residency then citizenship (AKA as international students) closes off in the future.

While it will be nice to have more people living in the West End, there is also a priority to get some decent privately owned apartments built so that the "stable" population numbers increase along with demand for services and facilities.

[Ben]

Dumbed down on the day of lodgement - that's new.

[rev]

Let me be the first to say "33 levels OmG is it TalLerRerrerrr"..

Lame outcome. Personally I’d have liked to see the CBD TAFE campus relocate here, opening up their current site on Currie Street for a multi-tower development, or better yet, a further expansion of Flinders University’s footprint in the CBD. This just seems like a short term solution to get the building off the ground. One day soon, perhaps not within the next five to ten years, but not too far into the future, our tertiary education system in Australia won’t be so lucrative and we’re going to be lumped with A LOT of student accommodation buildings where the likelihood of conversion to residential buildings will be deemed too costly or difficult.

That's alright, by that time the way things are going economically in this country, we'll have thousands more homeless people and young people who can't afford to rent let alone buy a house. These will be perfect for them.

Not the least bit surprised with this change. $350 million for student accommodation though?
The worst part of the change is the car park imo. I think it's possible to have part of the building, a couple levels of office or retail, in front of the car park facing the street & church area.

[dbl96]

Agreed - a real dumbing down of both purpose and Architectual merit.

Another thousand small living spaces that will be redundant when the easy shortcut to Australian residency then citizenship (AKA as international students) closes off in the future.

While it will be nice to have more people living in the West End, there is also a priority to get some decent privately owned apartments built so that the "stable" population numbers increase along with demand for services and facilities.

With the Federal Government now capping international student numbers, international student numbers are not going to be as high as they might have been, regardless of what happens with the post-graduation PR pathways. I highly doubt the merged uni is going to be able attract the numbers it hoped it would (and upon which the calculations about the viability of the merger were based). The competition for a limited pool of students is going to be intense, and the biggest beneficiaries will be highest ranked east coast unis.

[Smithy84]

As per the article above, Adelaide is exempt from the foreign student cap.

[floplo]

As per the article above, Adelaide is exempt from the foreign student cap.

afaik it's not an exemption, it's just that the imposed individual cap for the unis in Adelaide are not that binding.
Problem is that they can revise those at will...

[Llessur2002]

For anyone interested, here's a fairly good summary I read today in the Future Campus newsletter (https://futurecampus.com.au/).

Overall, the reduction in international student starts for 2025 appear to be in line with an unspoken game plan orchestrated by the Government, for the nation’s most highest-ranked universities to take a significant hit on their 2023 commencements. The University of Sydney will drop 7% to 11,900 starts. The University of Melbourne will be down 700 to 9,300. UNSW is hit hard, enrolling nearly 1600 fewer commencing internationals in 2025 than in 2023. These will translate to significant income losses over the three, often more, years international enrol for.

Other universities are hammered, where circumstances and strategies meant fewer international enrolments in 2023, the base year for the new scheme. Some are collateral damage of the crackdown on immigration rorts, having enrolled apparently legitimate students who then transferred to sham colleges as cover for their being in Australia to work, not study.

Some big unis did ok, including ones who counted their likely numbers and kept quiet as the Group of Eight’s lobbyists got stuck into Mr Clare. University of Queensland is untouched, at 7,050 new places. Monash U has nearly 10,000, a 20 per cent hike. And as South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas' fears for the merger of Uni Adelaide and Uni SA were unfounded. Uni Adelaide is allowed 17% more new students, Uni SA is also 12% up. The Premier pushed for the merger to expand international education in the state – the challenge next year will be for the new Adelaide U to fill its quota.

Outside the Group of Eight there are more marginal winners than substantial losers, but some of the losses are thumping. Federation U is down more than 50 per cent, to 1,100. Murdoch U loses 30 per cent of its 2023 starting number.