Mixed-use developments of this type are phenomenally successful everywhere.They regenerate dead zones because they harness resident, hospitality, small business, craft, retail and visitor energies.They’re colourful and dynamic areas, effortlessly support themselves,and generate spinoff economic activity in surrounding areas.They’re contemporary and…
Building the project as proposed would establish a key precedent that would make it harder to contain height on other block fronts along the strip if the municipality goes ahead with its own project. How could they then turn around…
North Adelaide can only be saved by attracting visitors, not just residents.The only thing that will attract visitors is open spaces.The previous plan had open spaces.The current plan has none.Visitors won’t come to a heavy old-fashioned building with arcades.It demeans…
Understanding of the situationThe kind of development the municipality is proposing seems typical of an approach we’veseen happening since the 1960s. Many examples exist of such development thatdemonstrates today how the lure of well intended and apparently pragmatic schemes cango…
Some of you know and love North Adelaide. For those who don’t, it’s a marvellous stone heritage precinct rising up from the city and the Torrens River with a compact shopping strip lining one major road. Part of its charm…
It needs to be said that residents want a vibrant lower height cafe precinct that leverages local character to create a strong visitor economy. North Adelaide has huge potential to be South Australia’s Salamanca Place. Few people realise how stupendously…
