SA The Adelaide Thread

[emuboy]

Land values in Adelaide CBD like in every Australian capital city are very high, and like the other capitals there has been much redevelopment going on around the city in recent years.

With that in mind, does anyone know what is happening with a seemingly derelict building on the northern side of Currie Street at one of Adelaide's main intersections, that of Currie and Grenfell Streets crossing King William Street, opposite from the old Town Hall, Goodlife Health Club and the RAA tower?

The building (a high rise about 10 floors) which once had a transport and tourism information section as well as a cafe on the ground floor (presumably the higher floors were once leased by lawyers, accounting firms, finance brokers, medical specialists and other professionals) has strangely stood vacant and in decline with its lower levels boarded up since at least the COVID years.

Does anyone know what is going to happen to the site, which surely must be a valuable bit of real estate?

 

[JHF1870]

Land values in Adelaide CBD like in every Australian capital city are very high, and like the other capitals there has been much redevelopment going on around the city in recent years.

With that in mind, does anyone know what is happening with a seemingly derelict building on the northern side of Currie Street at one of Adelaide's main intersections, that of Currie and Grenfell Streets crossing King William Street, opposite from the old Town Hall, Goodlife Health Club and the RAA tower?

The building (a high rise about 10 floors) which once had a transport and tourism information section as well as a cafe on the ground floor (presumably the higher floors were once leased by lawyers, accounting firms, finance brokers, medical specialists and other professionals) has strangely stood vacant and in decline with its lower levels boarded up since at least the COVID years.

Does anyone know what is going to happen to the site, which surely must be a valuable bit of real estate?

This one

 

[JHF1870]

10-storey hotel plan for troubled King William Street site - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia

The former Adelaide Metro office in the CBD will have extra storeys added under plans for a 129-room hotel.

www.indailysa.com.au

 

[MP_]

Land values in Adelaide CBD like in every Australian capital city are very high, and like the other capitals there has been much redevelopment going on around the city in recent years.

With that in mind, does anyone know what is happening with a seemingly derelict building on the northern side of Currie Street at one of Adelaide's main intersections, that of Currie and Grenfell Streets crossing King William Street, opposite from the old Town Hall, Goodlife Health Club and the RAA tower?

The building (a high rise about 10 floors) which once had a transport and tourism information section as well as a cafe on the ground floor (presumably the higher floors were once leased by lawyers, accounting firms, finance brokers, medical specialists and other professionals) has strangely stood vacant and in decline with its lower levels boarded up since at least the COVID years.

Does anyone know what is going to happen to the site, which surely must be a valuable bit of real estate?

Land prices are crazy, $370k for 400sqm in mt barker . 250k for 400sqm in Murray Bridge. I’m spewing I’m on 28 acres but I can’t subdivide it because of where my house is placed. I’d be on a gold mine otherwise.

 

[JHF1870]

Land prices are crazy, $370k for 400sqm in mt barker . 250k for 400sqm in Murray Bridge. I’m spewing I’m on 28 acres but I can’t subdivide it because of where my house is placed. I’d be on a gold mine otherwise.

And yet state govs havent adjusted stamp duty meaning cheapest properties will cost 45k to buy in taxes.

Its pointless selling my house at this point

 

[MP_]

And yet state govs havent adjusted stamp duty meaning cheapest properties will cost 45k to buy in taxes.

Its pointless selling my house at this point

Unfortunately stamp duty provides a third of the state’s income, if they reduce it the money has to come from somewhere else.

 

[JHF1870]

Unfortunately stamp duty provides a third of the state’s income, if they reduce it the money has to come from somewhere else.

Land tax. Everyone pays but it doesnt hurt people who move around. It becomes incredibly costly

 

[rocker_oz33]

Land prices are crazy, $370k for 400sqm in mt barker . 250k for 400sqm in Murray Bridge. I’m spewing I’m on 28 acres but I can’t subdivide it because of where my house is placed. I’d be on a gold mine otherwise.

Was there a boom in that area?

Sometimes a area just goes bang and prices go sky high.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Snowtown will be cheap.

 

[MP_]

Was there a boom in that area?

Sometimes an area just goes bang and prices go sky high.

People are paying these prices because there is high demand to build and lack of rentals.

 

[rocker_oz33]

People are paying these prices because there is high demand to build and lack of rentals.

But that area might of been that high say 5 years back?

Seems to be a area growing then the price goes up .
Then woolies, Coles and shops are build.

 

[MP_]

But that area might of been that high say 5 years back?

Seems to be a area growing then the price goes up .
Then woolies, Coles and shops are build.

Land prices have tripled in the last ten years. I’ve built 6 houses over the last 20 years, the market is bonkers now.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Anyone else want to take a swatter and send that smug RAA bee into another state?

What an absolute campaigner he is.

 

[jb04]

Anyone else want to take a swatter and send that smug RAA bee into another state?

What an absolute campaigner he is.

Every single person I know that works for the RAA hates that mascot so much.

 

[Neese]

Yep fugly and annoying.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Anyone else want to take a swatter and send that smug RAA bee into another state?

What an absolute campaigner he is.

Smug, condescending prick.

One bee I'm happy to see die.

 

[Cuzz09]

Not collecting any pollen, just flapping his gums to randoms who have broken down and giving them sh%t

 

[jb04]

Everyone getting their gardens watered this evening? Big hot coming up.

 

[MP_]

Everyone getting their gardens watered this evening? Big hot coming up.

Drought tolerant garden ftw here

 

[MatthewB]

Everyone getting their gardens watered this evening? Big hot coming up.

watering system is programmed to water in the morning and the evening during the heat

 

[Chief]

Everyone getting their gardens watered this evening? Big hot coming up.

My foliage lives or dies on its own merits. If it needs me to baby it with extra water, it's probably not long for this world.

 

[jb04]

My foliage lives or dies on its own merits. If it needs me to baby it with extra water, it's probably not long for this world.

Reminds me of a story about a long gone grandparent with a reputation for having a green thumb. Turns out she was just pragmatic and replaced anything that couldn't thrive in her yard.

 

[Neese]

Gold. A lot of gardening is trial and error

 

[MP_]

Gold. A lot of gardening is trial and error

As someone who works at a native plant production nursery the biggest problem for success and failure is a lack of knowledge of people who sell plants to guide the end user. All plants have particular requirements to survive, soil ph (acid/alkalinity) is the key to success, if you know that then you can start to choose the correct plants.

 

[Neese]

My Council works with an Indigenous horticulturalist to sell 10 native plants for $10. Residents get a voucher and then there is a day with this fella and his other staff to pick out their plants and ask questions about which suit their gardens. It's a very popular program and has been running for many years.

Edit Provenance Indigenous plants and this year will be the 17th year.