Elizabeth/Salisbury | Developments & News

[Hooligan]

The Salisbury Adult Book Shop closed its doors too! Is it almost too late to save Salisbury?

Oh noes!!! not the porn shop!!!

Salisbury is now doomed!!!

[coldy]

I agree with the both of you about the revamp of elizabeth, but the shopping centre there just went through with a complete make over
so i guess there budget might not be enough to redo the local area there.

They are working on the northern end of smithfield plains at present...

[Ben]

I wonder if once complete if the Thebarton site will be up for redevelopment.

Coke to take over Bridgestone site

Business16 Nov 11 @ 10:07am by Rob Greenwood

A COCA-COLA distribution centre will be the first business built on the site of the former Bridgestone factory in Salisbury.

Developer Commercial and General announced today it had bought the 25ha Cross Keys Rd site, which has been vacant since the tyre factory closed last April.

Coca-Cola plans to build a 35,000sqm distribution centre and office at the site.

Its Thebarton factory would remain its SA headquarters.

Commercial and General plan to sell the remaining 15ha of the Bridgestone site for other distribution centres.

[AtD]

Thebaron is a bottling plant, this sounds like a warehouse.

[crawf]

It wont be long before we hear the news Coca Cola will shut down or relocate it's Thebarton operation. Prime real estate sitting there now

[Ben]

From memory there is warehousing of stock currently at thebarton too.

[peas_and_corn]

Huh, I thought Coke relied on the retail chains to take care of warehousing.

[Wayno]

It wont be long before we hear the news Coca Cola will shut down or relocate it's Thebarton operation. Prime real estate sitting there now

That would be awesome! then compulsorily acquire the adjacent industrial/retail blocks and, bang, we have another fantastic TOD site - literally 1km from the city centre...

[mooshie]

They have just recently spent a heap of money upgrading the bottling plant so I wouldn't think that is going anywhere

[shiftaling]

That would be great, unfortunately the article doesn't seem to indicate Thebarton is closing down. They would still need a factory unless the distribution centre is for importing everything from interstate. Would be prime land though, the last industrial land adjacent to the parklands, isn't it?

[metro]

Shifty, there's lots of industrial land fronting the parklands on the western side, most of it is concentrated around the keswick/richmond area, there is also the west end brewery which is about double the size of the coca-cola bottling plant, and there is the (former) Clipsal site which we should all know is being transformed into the Bowden TOD..

[crawf]

Salisbury Town Centre overhaul
http://news-review-messenger.whereilive ... e-of-town/
16 NOV 11 @ 07:30AM BY ROB GREENWOOD

A JOHN St mall, apartments overlooking Pitman Park and buildings up to 12 storeys high are among options for a Salisbury Town Centre upgrade.

The council released three concept plans this week, including more shops and cafes, a new High St circling Parabanks Shopping Centre and apartments and businesses around the interchange.

Salisbury’s general manager of city development Greg Waller said the project was based on a 30-year push to bring more people to live, shop and dine in the town centre.

“We’ve got to provide a range of attractions and a range of environments that will draw people here,” Mr Waller said.

“The Salisbury Town Centre is only going to be successful if we come up with a plan that the community supports and wants.”

Under option one John St would be rejuvenated with a wider range of shops and cafes at street level and shop-top apartments in buildings three to six storeys high.

Option two includes a new High St linked to the northern end of Church St, featuring shops and apartments with views of Pitman Park.

The final option would have the heart of the town centre moved to an upgraded Salisbury Interchange.

Buildings between eight and 12 storeys high above and beside the station would house shops, restaurants, offices and apartments.

Mr Waller said this would deliver a “high-rise” development similar to Glenelg.

There is no funding at this stage, but it would need a mix of public and private investment.

Mr Waller said rooftop and underground carparks would be included in the project.

He said the council would need to develop its sites in the town centre and encourage major landholders to embrace the upgrade to turn the plan into reality.

“There’s a lot of people out there that are excited and motivated,” he said.

“We’re very keen that this planning process doesn’t result in a planning document that simply sits on the shelf.”

TWO long-term Salisbury traders have backed the option to build a new High St with shops and cafes as part of a town centre renewal.

Mattiske Funerals owner Robert Mattiske said the design would bring shoppers to the western side of Parabanks Shopping Centre.

Mr Mattiske, who has run the Wiltshire St business since 1966, said the plan would help the town centre realise its full potential.

“John St is reasonably well set-up with shops, but if we can extend it ... I think that would attract a lot of people into the area,” he said.
“It’s a new area and people like new things.”

Mr Mattiske, chair of the Salisbury Town Centre Association, was encouraged by the council’s plans for the town centre.

“Salisbury has traditionally been the focal point of the whole area, but we’re now competing with large shopping centres all around us,” he said.

Salisbury Printer Cartridges owner Bernie Elliott also backed the High St proposal.

Mr Elliott said the option, coupled with a minor upgrade of John St, would keep shoppers in the busiest part of the town centre surrounding Parabanks.

“We’ve got a whole area over there untouched and just waiting for something to be done,” he said.

Mr Elliott, who has run his John St business for 14 years, said he would prefer new businesses and cafes in the town centre, rather than apartments.

He said more carparks needed to be built to compliment the renewal.

“Salisbury is the hub of the whole area, but it hasn’t been developed over the years,” he said.

“We’ve got banks, doctor surgeries, the railway line and three major roads coming into Salisbury, so it’s all here waiting.”

[fabricator]

Demolish the bloody pub that exists on both sides of the station. Pokie hall in one building, bottleo in another = bogan/wino central. Next that can drive a bulldozer though that stupid roundabout out the front of the Cinema, simply because its too darn small for buses to navigate and yet sits at the entrance to the interchange. Finally tell the local traders to take a long walk off a short pier and contact that road underpass next to the station.

Having fixed the stupid problems the council have created the past decade or so, then they can talk about pie in the sky projects.
The pokie hall/ex sizzler restaurant and their underutilized carparks would be ideal for some proper commercial buildings.
Personally I think this 12 storeys high stuff is nonsense, 2-3 stories is far more practical, especially given the history of a certain suburb and blue plastic barrels.

[Allkai]

They have just recently spent a heap of money upgrading the bottling plant so I wouldn't think that is going anywhere

Correct.

Talking to someone in the know there, they have just installed new production lines that now blow their own bottles of any size from a typical blank.

[shiftaling]

Metro cheers, yeah I was thinking of the whole Port Road section as the last industrial land but I had forgotten about Keswick