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Westpac has naming rights to the building and are going to occupy some of the floors left vacant by Santos. The rest...

Maybe this is a silly question but why hasn't Adelaide ever built tall buildings? My grandmother told me when I was little that it has something to do with blocking the planes view. Surely this can't be so? I think if Adelaide started upping the skyline it would look way more impressive as a city and help propel the economy.

This is when economy issues come into play. If you want to contribute to Adelaide's skyline, start setting up more businesses so that you can occupy them for your offices

On the property side, most South Australians prefer to have a land + house to live in rather than investing in apartments.

and also the fact that what never was to be planned the airport is marely next to the city although planes leave towards the sea they can go over the city and if it were to do that by making really really tall buildings the airplanes will have extreme troubles trying to land safely without having to change their path so adelaide is going to have way taller building for some time to come but the government at the moment is doing their best to make it so there is no problems with the airport and the buildings can sky rocket.

"Oh and I wasn't saying the sky scrapers will be ready in a few years they are planning to do it through a massive time span which it may not really be skyscraper capitol but hold most of australias head offices oh and the government wants to double the population of adelaide by can't remember the year but that is another reason why they are granting in all this land packagement so they can double the economies population of human.

Could you please edit some sentences into that post. It makes no sense to me.

tidus0 wrote: "oh and the government wants to double the population of adelaide by can't remember the year

Please ask them to approve more worthy migrant graduates who are dying to be a resident here rather than approving all useless and non-economic-beneficiary migrants.

They need to streamline the migration process...

I know a number of people who are very well educated, yet seem to face enormous amounts of bureaucracy in trying to gain citizenship. One lady i know has 8 years as a professional architect from china, still waiting citizenship. Another i know is a very well off business man from malaysia who's trying to gain citizenship to open a chain of car dealerships in adelaide. Another is person I know has a phd in computer science from china and also has 4 years experience working as a stock broker in a chinese assets management company.

Apparently immigration discriminate against 'certain' countries and make it as difficult as possible for these highly skilled migrants to gain citizenship here.

If they really want to address our skills and population problems they really ought to start with fixing problems with our immigration system.

Yes exactly, and I have seen family migrants who does not contribute anything to the economy and skills except going on dole.

Yes, migrating here through spouse relationship and call up centrelink every now and then.

What a waste of skilled migrants opportunity.

This thread as served it's course.

http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com/coun ... gister.asp

Also here was that change to CC1

I thought I'd start a thread of all the developments we expect to start in 2007.

The ones I can think of at the moment are:

New Construction

Spire (105M 33ST)
Conservatory on Hindmarsh (68M 18 St)
2 x West Central Towers (62M 19St)
Morphett St Apartments (60M 22 St)
City Central Tower 3 (45.5M 12 St)
105 Waymouth St (60M 16St)
374-400 King William St (40M 11 St)
379 King William St (44M 12 St)
Coglin Place (40M 12 St)
Tivoli Hotel Redevolpment (35M 10 St)
Olympic House 77-80 West Terrace (28M 7 St)
Grote St Upgrade
GPO Redevelopment
Rundle Convergence

Construction Continuing
SA Water
City Central Tower 2

Construction being completed
Santos
City Central Tower 1
Central Bus terminal
Place on Brougham
Princes Apartments
Bakewell Underpass
North terrace Upgrade
223 North Terrace

Hopefully I have got this list pretty accurate. I only included the major developments I could think of but certainly a lot of change next year, will be something to look forward to. This is the most new construction I remember seeing in 1 year and I'm sure there will be some surprises too.

Some of those developments in that list are speculative I am gathering. Anyway it is going to be an exciting year for development in and around Adelaide. I just read in the Advertiser that rental properties are at an all time low at 0.5 percent which would see developers getting a little excited

Thanks for the info beamer 45.

This indeed confirms to me a more accurate reference point to measure wether or not Adelaide IS experiencing a building boom. When I lived there up to 1986 I regularly travelled over the CBD looking for/at and getting info on the then developments occurring. At that stage the most at any one tiime was 8 (for a population of about 800000). On your list it adds to 16 plus many extra changes (for a population of 1.123,000 - last ABS figures). This a disproportionate gain in activity and speaks well for the city. Especially good to see Vic.Sq. and KWS moving. Thanks again mate!

Exciting year ahead for us Should be interesting to see what happens especially with Spire.

beamer85 wrote:I thought I'd start a thread of all the developments we expect to start in 2007.

The ones I can think of at the moment are:

New Construction


2 x West Central Towers (62M 19St)
Morphett St Apartments (60M 22 St)
City Central Tower 3 (45.5M 12 St)
105 Waymouth St (60M 16St)
374-400 King William St (40M 11 St)
Coglin Place (40M 12 St)
GPO Redevelopment

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No chance of construction in 2007.