Close to announcing a deal? The Independent Weekly already carried a story indicating which govt. dept would be taking all five floors, earlier in this thread. The contract is done and dusted. Odd to have such a delay in the announcement.

This building is truly monolithic in an impressive way. I am currently parking each day in the car park next to it and even in the past month I've noticed it 'darken' considerably on level 5 as they have been building upwards. It's been a very busy site. That last photo really shows its scale and th...

As someone who rents in Adelaide, voted in the last election and who also nearly purchased a townhouse in the square mile last year, I can assure SA members I carefully looked at each of the candidates at the last council election and frankly, the choices for what I would call a 'realistic pro-devel...

I think this is shaping up as one of my favourite developments in Adelaide - the location is awesome, it's rocketing up (it seems to go up about 1 floor every week) and it already grabs my attention walking to work across Whitmore Square (albeit at the cost of eliminating most of the view of SA Wate...

The impact of these developments, assuming they eventuate, can't be overestimated to my mind. I currently live in the SW corner and it's amazing (a) how empty and low the city looks when you look east towards the Adelaide Hills but (b) how big and assuming the Optus tower appears simply because ever...

Tower 8 is perhaps a bit disappointing from the perspective of speculation over something much higher, but I don't mind it - it's new, the green glass look is OK because that block is surrounded by very different looking buildings, it adds density to that area surrounding Vic Square and in light of ...