[COM] Rundle Place | 76m | 15lvls | Retail & Office

[Howie]

Thanks mate.

Btw The Australian has confirmed Apple will be a tenant.

[Ben]

Office Tenancy facing the mall??

Potentially the facade redesign has something to do with Apple as i can't imagine they would have approved of the previously bland proposal?

Type: Application Assessed on Merit
Application Number: DA/562/2008/E
Lodgement Date: 4/04/2012
Location: 77-91 Rundle Mall, ADELAIDE SA 5000
Description Vary previous authorisation to demolish existing buildings and construct a 19 storey building comprising 4 storeys of retail (including basement) and 15 storeys of office accommodation - VARIATION - revised Rundl Mall facade design, layout, balcony and car park changes and new office tenancy fronting Rundle Mall.

[Ben]

Thursday, 5 April 2012
An Apple in Rundle Malls eye
Kevin Naughton

GLOBAL technology powerhouse Apple is set to take a spot in Adelaide’s Rundle Mall in a move agent sources say will be a coup for the city’s retail sector.

Reports in The Australian today said it is understood Apple is in discussions to lease space in Rundle Place, the new 85-store $85 million development on the site of the old Harris Scarfe’s store.

Rundle Place is also said to be the location of a second Zara store – the Spanish fashion retailer that opened its first SA store at Burnside Village. Indaily understands negotiations are also underway for another Zara store at Westfield Marion.

The attraction of an Apple store is more than the products they sell – the stores also include a “genius bar” where owners of Apple products can have on-the-spot service or repairs.

“These types of stores bring in enormous levels of activity,” Rundle Mall management Authority CEO Martin Haese told Indaily this morning.

“The rumour’s you are hearing are consistent with what we are hearing, but natural the owners are keeping understandably tight lipped.

“If it happened, it would be a groundbreaking acquisition for Runddle Mall.”

Customers are drawn in to Apple stores for repairs, which can take between 15 minutes to an hour or two, generating significant foot traffic for shopping centres where they are located, Sarah Danckert writes in today’s Prime Space section of The Australian.

Apple is the world’s largest listed company and an Adelaide store will bring its Australian retail presence to 14 stores.

Rundle Place project leasing manager Ilona Rose declined to comment.

Apple’s company’s stores are in the 1,000sq m to 1500sq m range.

NSW has seven stores, each in major shopping centres.

Melbourne has three, Brisbane two and Perth one.

Spanish fashion outlet Zara is said to be looking for space for a second store in the Rundle Place complex.

Rumours around Adelaide that it would ditch its store in the Burnside shopping centre have been denied by the Centre’s management and by Zara’s Australian headquarters.

Indaily spoke with Burnside owners The Cohen group who said Zara was not leaving the centre.

[spiller]

why would zara leave burnside after being open for less than 6 months...ridiculous

and about time we got an apple store!

[Ben]

why would zara leave burnside after being open for less than 6 months...ridiculous

and about time we got an apple store!

people just like to make rumours up. Same thing about the tree dying. it's not dying just someone with too much time on thier hands and a lot of negativity in thier "mind"...

[Waewick]

why would zara leave burnside after being open for less than 6 months...ridiculous

and about time we got an apple store!

it is all about turn-over

[AtD]

Mmm, apple turn over...

Office Tenancy facing the mall??

Hopefully it's either not on the ground floor, or by 'office' they mean a bank branch or something.

[Xaragmata]

From Wednesday ...

[Wayno]

from lvl 30 westpac house earlier today:

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[monotonehell]

why would zara leave burnside after being open for less than 6 months...ridiculous

and about time we got an apple store!

it is all about turn-over

sorry...

[Hooligan]

why would zara leave burnside after being open for less than 6 months...ridiculous

and about time we got an apple store!

it is all about turn-over

sorry...

It's ok, I had a chuckle at it to when i saw that.

[Ben]

Amendments are on the DAC website for discussion at Thursdays meeting.

Key to the amendments are for the Apple tenancy (of which can be seen in the below render). Council are unhappy as Apple have requested no awning along their store and this goes against council policy. Why does Apple get special circumstances? Do their customers deserve to get wet just so their facade looks pretty?

Also this building looks a lot more stumpy then I rememebed.

[Zills]

looks crap

[Will]

The Rundle Mall facade is ghastly. It's simply crap.

[Ben]

Hopefully one day they will plant trees down grenfell which will block out some of the horrendous facade on that side. It's certainly is not the "up market" look they are marketing the place to be.