Development around the Port

[raptalia]

I had to shake my head when I read that the Port Canal Shopping Centre is to be redeveloped and re badged as the Port Plaza. Building the shopping precinct that far from the Black Diamond Corner was a mistake in the first place as it drew people out of the Port Centre. K Mart, Woolies etc should have been sited further north to draw people into the centre of the Port as happened in the 1960's. It is too easy to drive into the Port, do your shopping but not go into the heart of the Port.

On a more positive note, after years of decay at least some things are happening so we should be grateful for that.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/busi...n/news-story/d8d4af668c4245c6c1b1c821d8076308
PORT Adelaide was the humble beginnings of Australian rich-lister Shaun Bonett’s $1 billion property portfolio — two decades later, the city has the “best positive indicators” since 1998 and he’s returning to the Port to reinvest in his first major purchase.“The $45 million redevelopment of the Port Canal Shopping Centre (to be renamed Port Adelaide Plaza) is our latest and largest current development,” said Shaun Bonett, chief executive and managing director of Precision Group. The centre’s footprint will expand — from 19,000 sqm to 29,394 sqm — and the number of shops will more than double from 28 to 60 in two stages with the final completion in mid-2020.

Artist impressions of the redeveloped Port Adelaide Plaza. Supplied.
The reinvestment comes with a new tenancy to be taken up by global retail giant Aldi, which will open its largest SA store within the shopping centre and the creation of new services on site, including a childcare centre and medical centre, Mr Bonett told The Advertiser.

Precision Group, which also owns the David Jones-leased Adelaide Central Plaza shopping centre at Rundle Mall, has Pran Central in Melbourne and MacArthur Central in Brisbane and a number of other shopping centres in Australia and NZ on its books. “I remember negotiating this purchase from Babcock & Brown 20 years ago. “We have seen the area go through various levels of investment and infrastructure improvement. “Our commitment to SA where the group began has never faltered, so we retained the asset while also enhancing our existing offerings elsewhere, for instance bringing in Tiffany & Co to ACP,” he said.

Precision Group was founded by Shaun Bonett in Adelaide in 1994, as a small investment and redevelopment property business, focused on finding distressed asset opportunities that could be turned around. In 1998, Precision Group made its first major acquisition, buying the Port Canal Shopping Centre with the adjacent Customs House office building in Port Adelaide for $36 million......... Mr Bonett is based in Sydney, co-running the business with Precision Group’s executive director and corporate lawyer Steve Bonett, his brother, who lives in Adelaide.

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/busi...n/news-story/d8d4af668c4245c6c1b1c821d8076308

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Since this thread started in 2011 the most talked about thing stopping development around Port Adelaide and the Lefevre Peninsula has been the Adelaide Brighton Cement plant.

Yesterday the Australian Conservation Foundation released its -
https://www.acf.org.au/the_dirty_truth_most_polluted_postcodes
The dirty truth: Australia's most polluted postcodes - report
The burden of air pollution rests disproportionately on the shoulders of poorer Australians. This report by the Australian Conservation Foundation shows 90 per cent of polluting facilities reported in the National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) are in postcodes with low-middle weekly household incomes.

DOWNLOAD PUBLICATION
https://www.acf.org.au/the_dirty_truth_most_polluted_postcodes
and
https://www.acf.org.au/stronger_air_pollution_standards_needed_to_protect_poorer_australians
A new report by the Australian Conservation Foundation shows 90 per cent of polluting facilities reported in the National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) are in postcodes with low-middle weekly household incomes.

Only 0.1 per cent of polluting facilities are in high household income areas.

Of the five most polluted areas – Newman and Collie in WA, Mount Isa in Queensland, the Hunter region in NSW and the Latrobe Valley in Victoria – coal-fired power stations are the largest emitters in three, while mining operations create the most emissions in the other two.

“Air pollution kills around 3,000 Australians every year and worsens conditions such as asthma, emphysema, chronic bronchitis and other respiratory diseases,” said Matthew Rose, the Australian Conservation Foundation’s Economics Program Manager......
https://www.acf.org.au/stronger_air_pollution_standards_needed_to_protect_poorer_australians

From Page 5 of the report where they list the biggest polluting plant in each of the 8 capital cities.

In postcode 5015 which covers Port Adelaide + Ethelton, Granville and Birkenhead 95% of emissions from this postcode come from the ABC plant.

Want to fix up the Port Adelaide area, which makes it more vibrant, most prosperous and that prosperity feeds back into the club, lobby to get the ABC plant moved.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

There were a couple of stories in Saturday's advertiser about developments about the Port

1st - its not on line but headline was
Port's revival promises a new golden era - After decades of false promises, Port Adelaide's fortunes are set to change for the better - and locals can't wait as CALEB BOND reports.

Its a bit of a rehash of previous articles but the following figures are repeated in it
BAE System Osborne $17billion 6,300 jobs oz wide - future Frigates

1250 home $400m

Starfish developments $168m housing estate on 8.5ha Dock One including 334 townhouses and 411 appartments and dockside piazza and a board walk

On other side of the river Cedar Woods $160m 500 homes on Fletcher's Slip

Wharf Markets $30m retirement apartments called Dock 27. Next door $25m Quest hotel opened in 2016

$5m Southern Sea Eagles Cruickshank's Corner tourism and fishing destination. $16.4m on train line extension to town centre.

Sub plant buiding costs $77m - submarine jobs 2,800.

This is the other one

Historic Port Adelaide shed earmarked for demolition in bid for state heritage listing
A last-ditch bid has been made to spare a historic Port Adelaide shed from the bulldozer. The sawtooth shed, also known as Shed 26, is slated to be demolished as part of a major urban transformation project at Fletcher’s Slip. On Thursday, the state’s heritage council will consider a bid by the National Trust Port Adelaide branch to get the former Marine and Harbors shed on the banks of the Port River into the state heritage register.

It comes after Cedar Woods, which has been tasked with the $160 million transformation of Fletcher’s Slip, revealed their masterplan for the area — which involved the demolition of Shed 26. National Trust Port Adelaide branch chairwoman Pat Netschitowsky said the building had been lauded by nationally respected architects. “It is the last of its kind in the Port area,” she said. “We believe it could be really wonderfully reused.”

Last week Cedar Woods chief operating officer Patrick Archer said his company had investigated keeping the building but it was structurally decaying, riddled with asbestos and cost about $8 million to $10 million just to meet the building code. Apartment buildings are slated to go in its place.......Cedar Woods intends to build about 500 homes — a mix of two- and three-storey townhouses and low-rise apartments — alongside public parks in a major transformation of the site aimed at young families and couples......
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/mess...g/news-story/615f1f71c1816904795da6e2feca4970

so it changes from this

to this

From the development image I put up a couple of years ago in post #78. You can see/make out the saw tooth sheds between the words North West and Fletcher's Slip

 

[mic59]

A place the Port can be proud of providing extra accommodation for 1500 versus an old eyesore of no use to anyone. Not a difficult choice, or at least I would hope it wasn't.
"We believe it could be wonderfully re-used." What a crock.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

A place the Port can be proud of providing extra accommodation for 1500 versus an old eyesore of no use to anyone. Not a difficult choice, or at least I would hope it wasn't.
"We believe it could be wonderfully re-used." What a crock.

If you have asbestos in there who is going to pay for that to be remove to keep them in the same form they are now. Maybe keep the shape and look of the first 2 sheds for a community building but no one is going to restore them with all the decay and asbestos.

 

[mic59]

I had to shake my head when I read that the Port Canal Shopping Centre is to be redeveloped and re badged as the Port Plaza. Building the shopping precinct that far from the Black Diamond Corner was a mistake in the first place as it drew people out of the Port Centre. K Mart, Woolies etc should have been sited further north to draw people into the centre of the Port as happened in the 1960's. It is too easy to drive into the Port, do your shopping but not go into the heart of the Port.
On a more positive note, after years of decay at least some things are happening so we should be grateful for that.

I have only been in the Port since 2005 and I felt the point was missed some years before I came when the area between the Port Canal Shopping Centre and the shops in Dale Street was used by various offices instead of building one all-inclusive market from the K-Mart in the Canal to the mall ending on St Vincent St.

 

[raptalia]

The State Government is putting the screws on Public servants to relocate to the Port. That in itself is a good thing but the dickhead decisions that were made several decades ago till haunt us. Not only did they build K Mart, Woolies etc in the wrong place but they closed the Port Dock Station spur which took people into the heart of the Port. If they had a rail link to the Port Dock they might find it easier to encourage public servants, or any one else, to work in the Port.

The current Port Station is a monstrosity not only is it an eyesore but it is the wrong place and you have to climb two flights of stairs to get to the bloody platforms.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The State Government is putting the screws on Public servants to relocate to the Port. That in itself is a good thing but the dickhead decisions that were made several decades ago till haunt us. Not only did they build K Mart, Woolies etc in the wrong place but they closed the Port Dock Station spur which took people into the heart of the Port. If they had a rail link to the Port Dock they might find it easier to encourage public servants, or any one else, to work in the Port.

The current Port Station is a monstrosity not only is it an eyesore but it is the wrong place and you have to climb two flights of stairs to get to the bloody platforms.

Its coming back. Well is supposed but may have been delayed Was announced in June 2017 as part of the budget.

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news...e/news-story/592f09121f365f1a4774df13e2f0b948
A NEW 1km rail link will connect Port Adelaide’s commercial centre and the Dock One residential precinct to the Adelaide CBD for the first time in 36 years.

The $16.4 million train station and spur line will lead to a new railway station at Baker St, in the heart of the Port, the Government announced in the State Budget on Thursday. Transport Minister Stephen Mullighan said that when the new line opened, Port Adelaide residents would be able to catch regular train services from a modern, safe and accessible station at the site of the current Jacketts Station at the National Railway Museum.

“The new station will be located on the doorstep of the Dock One waterfront redevelopment which will include more than 750 new townhouses and apartments, a refurbished Marine and Harbours building, and waterfront boardwalk,’’ he said.

“Construction will start next year and will support 48 jobs during construction.”.........

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news...e/news-story/592f09121f365f1a4774df13e2f0b948

 

[raptalia]

The contract has been let.

https://blog.plantminer.com.au/contract-awarded-for-16.4m-new-port-adelaide-railway-project

P.S. Do not appreciate the Crows colours all over the fly through in the above link.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

This Our Port site page has a link to the develop of the different precincts around the Our Port area. Our Port community group has worked with Renewal SA’s urban renewal project and the Government of South Australia to develop a long term vision to see more people living, working, investing and spending time in the Port

https://ourport.com.au/precincts/

This one is the Dock One page that ties in with the Starfish Developments project.
https://ourport.com.au/precinct/dock-one/

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

So with the final approvals over the weekend, this







Will turn into something like this

Port Adelaide housing development Dock One given planning approval
A major housing development on Port Adelaide’s landmark Dock One site has won planning approval, as the region readies for an expected boom driven by the $90 billion Defence shipbuilding program. The State Commission Assessment Panel has given the green light to the first phase of the Dock One development, which features more than 100 homes split across three sites. It is part of a larger Dock One overhaul, led by Starfish Developments, which is ultimately expected to feature 750 homes in townhouses and apartments along with public spaces including a waterside piazza and boardwalk.

The centrepiece of the larger rejuvenation is to be a revamp of the historic Port Harbour Building into a “collective” occupied by artisan food producers and providores as well as “hi-tech working spaces” offered to local businesses.

Starfish Developments managing director Damon Nagel said there had already been 2000 expressions of interest to buy into the site. “The surprising thing for us is that we’ve seen probably about 65 per cent of those inquiring are owner-occupiers and, traditionally, you’d expect to see the reverse and a much higher rate of inquires on the investment side,” he said. “For people that are looking, the thing they are talking about is the lifestyle that’s happening down at the Port. It’s the bars and restaurants.”.....
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news...l/news-story/6b4a9aec749750587b85d27dcb4acd9f

Looks like there is more interest than you expected Papa G

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Bit more from the article;

Stage one will feature affordable apartments through to three-bedroom townhouses on the park and waterside. Earthworks in preparation for the Dock One development have been completed, and the entire project is expected to roll out in four stages. Slabs for the approved townhouses are expected to be laid in May, with residents able to move in from early 2020.

 

[Papa G]

So with the final approvals over the weekend, this







Will turn into something like this

Port Adelaide housing development Dock One given planning approval
A major housing development on Port Adelaide’s landmark Dock One site has won planning approval, as the region readies for an expected boom driven by the $90 billion Defence shipbuilding program. The State Commission Assessment Panel has given the green light to the first phase of the Dock One development, which features more than 100 homes split across three sites. It is part of a larger Dock One overhaul, led by Starfish Developments, which is ultimately expected to feature 750 homes in townhouses and apartments along with public spaces including a waterside piazza and boardwalk.

The centrepiece of the larger rejuvenation is to be a revamp of the historic Port Harbour Building into a “collective” occupied by artisan food producers and providores as well as “hi-tech working spaces” offered to local businesses.

Starfish Developments managing director Damon Nagel said there had already been 2000 expressions of interest to buy into the site. “The surprising thing for us is that we’ve seen probably about 65 per cent of those inquiring are owner-occupiers and, traditionally, you’d expect to see the reverse and a much higher rate of inquires on the investment side,” he said. “For people that are looking, the thing they are talking about is the lifestyle that’s happening down at the Port. It’s the bars and restaurants.”.....
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news...l/news-story/6b4a9aec749750587b85d27dcb4acd9f

Looks like there is more interest than you expected Papa G

Happy to be wrong on this REH. if indeed it is a majorly owner occupied development then all the better. Just am extremely wary of these types of developments by these types of developers. Properties sold off the plan by property spruikers at over inflated prices almost always end in tears. Ironfish are balls deep in this type of selling. The Port at least has many good things going for it. Let's hope it works.

 

[Grave Danger]

Are Pirate Life beers any good? Do they have something similar to a Little Creatures Pale Ale or a Feral Hop Hog, or even a Coopers Sparkling?



Pirate brewers drop anchor at Port to tap tourist treasure

It will also expand capacity, giving the brewer a chance to make a strong push into Europe and China.


“We’re really excited about the Port,” Pirate Life co-founder Jack Cameron said of the brewhouse, which opens to the public on March 9.


“Our goal for the next four or five years is we want people to talk about Port Adelaide like they do Adelaide Hills, McLaren Vale the Barossa Valley.”

Pirate LIfe’s new brewery and tap house in Port Adelaide. Picture Simon Cross



https://outline.com/6WXZpa

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The brewery site is corner of Baker st (parallel to St Vincent st) and Barlow st, picture taken of Barlow st frontage.

https://brandsanews.com.au/pirate-lifes-port-adelaide-brewery-open-for-business/
Popular craft brewer Pirate Life will celebrate the completion of its $15 million new Port Adelaide brewery and canning facility this month, coinciding with the business’s fourth birthday. The new brewery will allow Pirate Life to brew eight million litres of beer at the Port to keep up with national demand, compared to the three million litres at its current Hindmarsh facility. The original site at Hindmarsh will still operate, dedicated to creating new and innovative beers, while the Port Adelaide brewery will take on the big sellers lager, pale ale, and IPA.

Pirate Life co-founder Michael Cameron says the brewery intends to brew between 40 and 45 new beers this year.

It’s been a big couple of months for Pirate Life, which was bought in November 2018 by Carlton and United Breweries, a subsidiary of Belgium-based Anheuser-Busch InBev.
.....
“Now it’s time for us to share the love … and we encourage everyone to drop in and stay a while.” The Pirate Life’s fourth birthday celebrations are on Saturday, March 9, 2–5pm. Grammy nominated brass band Hot 8 Brass Band will perform, touring all the way from New Orleans. Free buses will depart from the Port Adelaide Train Station, Gilbert Street Hotel and Adelaide Train Station to the brewery. For more details on the event click here.

https://brandsanews.com.au/pirate-lifes-port-adelaide-brewery-open-for-business/

 

[philthy05]

Since this thread started in 2011 the most talked about thing stopping development around Port Adelaide and the Lefevre Peninsula has been the Adelaide Brighton Cement plant.

Yesterday the Australian Conservation Foundation released its -
https://www.acf.org.au/the_dirty_truth_most_polluted_postcodes
The dirty truth: Australia's most polluted postcodes - report
The burden of air pollution rests disproportionately on the shoulders of poorer Australians. This report by the Australian Conservation Foundation shows 90 per cent of polluting facilities reported in the National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) are in postcodes with low-middle weekly household incomes.

DOWNLOAD PUBLICATION
https://www.acf.org.au/the_dirty_truth_most_polluted_postcodes
and
https://www.acf.org.au/stronger_air_pollution_standards_needed_to_protect_poorer_australians
A new report by the Australian Conservation Foundation shows 90 per cent of polluting facilities reported in the National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) are in postcodes with low-middle weekly household incomes.

Only 0.1 per cent of polluting facilities are in high household income areas.

Of the five most polluted areas – Newman and Collie in WA, Mount Isa in Queensland, the Hunter region in NSW and the Latrobe Valley in Victoria – coal-fired power stations are the largest emitters in three, while mining operations create the most emissions in the other two.

“Air pollution kills around 3,000 Australians every year and worsens conditions such as asthma, emphysema, chronic bronchitis and other respiratory diseases,” said Matthew Rose, the Australian Conservation Foundation’s Economics Program Manager......
https://www.acf.org.au/stronger_air_pollution_standards_needed_to_protect_poorer_australians

From Page 5 of the report where they list the biggest polluting plant in each of the 8 capital cities.

In postcode 5015 which covers Port Adelaide + Ethelton, Granville and Birkenhead 95% of emissions from this postcode come from the ABC plant.

Want to fix up the Port Adelaide area, which makes it more vibrant, most prosperous and that prosperity feeds back into the club, lobby to get the ABC plant moved.


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Lol a friend bought a small unit right at the foot of the cement plant a few years back and has not been able to sell it since. I don’t know what she was thinking.

Also what on earth are they thinking building something like that in a suburb. I mean it’s not like Australia has like a billion miles of space or coastline it could have been built on. Or that 80 minutes drive of Adelaide in either direction finds you in near isolation.

Are Pirate Life beers any good? Do they have something similar to a Little Creatures Pale Ale or a Feral Hop Hog, or even a Coopers Sparkling?



Pirate brewers drop anchor at Port to tap tourist treasure

It will also expand capacity, giving the brewer a chance to make a strong push into Europe and China.


“We’re really excited about the Port,” Pirate Life co-founder Jack Cameron said of the brewhouse, which opens to the public on March 9.


“Our goal for the next four or five years is we want people to talk about Port Adelaide like they do Adelaide Hills, McLaren Vale the Barossa Valley.”

Pirate LIfe’s new brewery and tap house in Port Adelaide. Picture Simon Cross



https://outline.com/6WXZpa

My missus had a private tour of the place because of her job and told me the size of the thing is mind boggling

Like park jumbo jets in there massive. They spoke about their ability to expand what they are doing easily in that space. Interested in what it could become.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Lol a friend bought a small unit right at the foot of the cement plant a few years back and has not been able to sell it since. I don’t know what she was thinking.

Also what on earth are they thinking building something like that in a suburb. I mean it’s not like Australia has like a billion miles of space or coastline it could have been built on. Or that 80 minutes drive of Adelaide in either direction finds you in near isolation.....

The first plant was on the site before WWI. It was part of a working Port not a suburb. The current plant, was expanded to the current size 40 or 50 years ago.

 

[Magus]

Pirate Life’s Huge New Port Adelaide Brewery and Taphouse is Almost Here

It’ll have shuffleboard, a barbershop and beers never seen in Australia before.
Everything about Pirate Life’s new home is vast. The enormous warehouse has a 25-metre-long peacock mural emblazoned on the outside and 10,000 square metres of floor space. Inside, a customised, energy-efficient, 50-hectolitre brewkit is dwarfed by the former Dalgety Wool Store’s 14-metre-high ceilings.

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In the meantime, the trio will encourage patrons to visit nearby restaurants after a few beers, seeing their venue as an avenue for increasing visitors to the Port, just as the Little Creatures brewery helped rejuvenate the Fremantle port and encouraged local business development. The Pirate Life push will gain momentum when the Port Dock Railway Station opens just outside their front door in April 2020 – they’re already calling it “Pirate Life Station”.
Pirate Life Brewery opens on Wednesday March 6 and launches officially on Saturday March 9. It will be open from 12pm until late, seven days a week.

https://www.broadsheet.com.au/adela...uge-new-port-adelaide-taphouse-is-almost-here

 

[Grave Danger]

 

[bomberclifford]

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You ****ing campaigners.

 

[philthy05]

Wasn’t the government trying to coax government workers out of the city and to the port?

 

[Garibaldi Red]

Wasn’t the government trying to coax government workers out of the city and to the port?

They have moved quite a few down there already

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Wasn’t the government trying to coax government workers out of the city and to the port?

From 12 months ago

Workers have begun moving into the highly anticipated new $40 million State Government building in Port Adelaide
Ashleigh Pisani, Portside Weekly Messenger June 6, 2018 1:08pm

WORKERS have begun moving into the new $40 million State Government building in Port Adelaide.
The highly anticipated development is now complete and the first of 500 public servants have started to move in. Staffers from Service SA are the first workers to occupy the building, which is on the corner of Nile St and Robe St.

They will be followed by a “cross-section” of staff from the Primary Industries and Regions SA fisheries and aquaculture division, Service SA, Renewal SA, the Environment Department and the Department of Premier and Cabinet. The building consists of three-storeys of office accommodation, two levels of car parking — accommodating 142 cars — and a ground floor retail space.
.......

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www.adelaidenow.com.au

This is the building. The road on the left hand side of the picture/building is Nelson St that goes to the Birkenhead bridge.

 

[philthy05]

I wonder if they were promised or were betting on a rail extension when they moved down there.