[COM] Festival Plaza Tower 1 | 115m | 27 Levels | Office

[Smithy84]

Down to 3 cranes here now?

[d3v310per]

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[d3v310per]

Above photos from 7th January

[AndyWelsh]

From today:














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[Spotto]

I love how the paving along Station Road evokes railway tracks. That’s a nice touch

[I Follow PAFC]

Festival Theatre forced to close for plaza works.
Building works on the new Festival Plaza will force the closure of the Adelaide Festival Centre’s largest venue, the Festival Theatre, for up to seven months from mid-July.

https://indaily.com.au/news/2021/02/10/ ... aza-works/

[Nathan]

Festival Theatre forced to close for plaza works.
Building works on the new Festival Plaza will force the closure of the Adelaide Festival Centre’s largest venue, the Festival Theatre, for up to seven months from mid-July.

https://indaily.com.au/news/2021/02/10/ ... aza-works/

Ridiculous. We had most of 2020 where the Festival Centre couldn't put on shows, and as soon as they can start building up again they're told they need to close. Surely the project managers should have seen the opportunity to do those works last year.

[Nort]

Festival Theatre forced to close for plaza works.
Building works on the new Festival Plaza will force the closure of the Adelaide Festival Centre’s largest venue, the Festival Theatre, for up to seven months from mid-July.

https://indaily.com.au/news/2021/02/10/ ... aza-works/

Ridiculous. We had most of 2020 where the Festival Centre couldn't put on shows, and as soon as they can start building up again they're told they need to close. Surely the project managers should have seen the opportunity to do those works last year.

Why so sure?

[Ben]

That may have been the case but this project is years behind... the casino still don’t have their carpark yet and won’t anytime soon.

[Smithy84]

Article in tomorrow’s Tiser suggesting Flinders University is about to sign on as anchor tenant here.
This is following Lang Walker’s recent comments that construction of the tower will commence mid year.

[rev]

Ridiculous. We had most of 2020 where the Festival Centre couldn't put on shows, and as soon as they can start building up again they're told they need to close. Surely the project managers should have seen the opportunity to do those works last year.

In an announcement this morning, the centre said the “temporary and unavoidable” closure was required to strengthen the concrete slab around the southern side of the 1950-seat theatre and would avoid up to two years of ongoing construction works affecting its foyers, box office, bars and toilets.

Could this work have been done last year?
Anyone on here with the relevant qualifications who cares to clarify?

I'd be more interested though in why they were able to schedule shows (10-15 apparently) for that time, although none had gone on sale they say in the article, when this work was needing to be done?

Or is this work a consequence of ongoing construction works going on? Hence the disruption to shows..

[gnrc_louis]

Article in tomorrow’s Tiser suggesting Flinders University is about to sign on as anchor tenant here.
This is following Lang Walker’s recent comments that construction of the tower will commence mid year.

See below:

Flinders Plaza?

Property billionaire Lang Walker’s surprise declaration that construction would start by mid-year on a 27-storey office tower at Festival Plaza caused surprisingly few ripples.

Walker’s revelation was part of a front-page Advertiser article detailing the launch of Walker Corp’s $3bn satellite city north of Adelaide, Riverlea, at Buckland Park.

Political and business circles have been abuzz with speculation about the reason for Walker’s confidence, with a key anchor tenant said to be on the brink of signing.

Like Riverlea, the Festival Plaza development has been controversial for most of the past decade. The former Labor government in 2012 gave Walker Corporation exclusive rights to develop the precinct and in 2016 signed a development agreement for the carpark and Plaza, expiring in 2026.

There have been numerous fits of speculation the tower was about to be built because a major tenant had been secured, only for this to prove unfounded. Likewise, there has been persistent speculation Walker would wait until the brink of the agreement’s expiry to start construction.

As Walker said on February 25, the 1560-space underground carpark is almost complete. Following that, he says, work will start on the tower.

The speculation is the reason for Walker’s confidence is that Flinders University is close to signing on as the office tower’s anchor tenant.

A key reason is said to be the Bedford Park-based uni wants to join Adelaide and UniSA and have a North Tce campus. This capitalises on the newly installed rail link between Flinders and the Adelaide Railway Station. It is not known whether Flinders would have naming rights or how many floors the university would take. The fate of the uni’s Victoria Square building, adjacent the State Administration Centre, is not known.

Apart from the dreadful politics of MPs moving into swanky new offices, it also would make some sense to shift some offices from the rabbit-warren-like Parliament House, which adjoins Festival Plaza to the south.

It is, however, most unlikely that Treasurer Rob Lucas would agree to such expenditure in his final Budget before retiring. His replacement, however, might have different ideas.

[notmichaeljfox]

The Victoria Square building was due to be demolished in a couple of years, about the time Festival Plaza is meant to open (at least that was the case pre-covid).

[gnrc_louis]

The Victoria Square building was due to be demolished in a couple of years, about the time Festival Plaza is meant to open (at least that was the case pre-covid).

The old Reserve Bank building? Fair bit of heritage value to it, can't see that getting demolished without a big fight.