[PRO] 80 Currie Street | 137m | 34 levels | Office
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2019 7:42 pm
From the Advertiser
Commercial & General’s Jamie McClurg unveils new tower plans
The new tallest building in Adelaide was anointed less than a month ago. But a new tower may be coming. And it’s set to take the crown.
Weeks after Adelaide’s new tallest building reached its highest point at the city’s east end, one of the state’s prominent developers has unveiled plans for an even taller tower in the heart of the CBD.
Commercial & General is proposing to build a 34-storey office building at 80 Currie St, on the corner of Kingston St, rising 136.6 metres and eclipsing the Frome Central development on Frome St.
Frome Central – comprising the Adelaidean apartments and Crowne Plaza hotel – topped out at 135 metres in November, making it the city’s new tallest building.
Commercial & General executive chairman Jamie McClurg said his company’s “unashamedly bold” proposal underlined a new vision for the city.
“We normally keep projects under wraps while we go through the precommitment phase of negotiating tenancy arrangements,” he said.
“However, we also believe it’s important to be brave as well as visionary; to have the ideas that will help shape the future of our city and to not be afraid to talk about them.
“We aren’t developers that want buildings designed by accountants. We want structures that inspire and are measured for their social and commercial impact on the city.
“In this way, we believe 80 Currie Street will not only be the tallest commercial tower in Adelaide but that it also signals a renewal of the city as a place for business.”
Designed by Woods Bagot, the building comprises 36,800 sqm of office and associated space, and is one of the state’s first projects to target WELL V2 certification.
WELL V2 is the highest benchmark in a global rating system used to measure how a building’s design contributes to the physical and emotional wellbeing of its occupants.
Commercial & General recently completed construction of the $345 million Calvary Adelaide Hospital, and will next year begin work on the $320 million SAHMRI II facility on North Tce.
Earlier this month it won a bid to develop the former Le Cornu site at North Adelaide.
“We have a proven capability as a locally-headquartered organisation that can manage and develop the hard-to-do projects for South Australia,” Mr McClurg said.
“These are projects of the size and scale that would traditionally push them beyond the scope of SA companies, making them the exclusive domain of the large eastern states and multinational developers.