MADNESS! Moving limbs is for the weak!Llessur2002 wrote:...because I’m a human and my body is quite able to cope with being wet, being a bit hot, being a bit cold and having my limbs move around a bit...
Activity Hub a ‘new paradigm for SA entrepreneurs
LESS THAN a year into its existence, Peel Street’s Hub Adelaide is anchoring the State’s young-blood entrepreneurs and chipping away at an inherent “silos” business culture to make it more social and innovative, members say.
Casual Hub users and partners at graphic design firm Studio Spark , Sally Saunders and Lucinda Roberts have found new momentum for a business that began five years ago.
Founder Sally says she was getting “sterile” in terms of her creativity by working in an isolated environment from her home in the Hills.
“Just using the Hub once a week has reinvigorated the business and blown my expectations.
“With Lucinda also on board and just being in a social environment means creativity has bloomed,” she said.
Lucinda says more spaces like the Hub would help retain SA’s youth.
“Four years ago, I would have been very disenchanted in SA. Right now, I like the growth and the feeling of being part of the change that’s coming in.”
“We (at the Hub) are being supportive of SA together and that is the feeling among everyone here.”
Studio Spark, which pays $10 per hour for a set number of hours per week to use the Hub, works with small to medium businesses on website design and branding with clients ranging from a gym owner in the Hills, an organic citrus grower in the Riverland and a studio builder.
Hub Adelaide was set up in September last year as a shared co-working and learning space - and is part of Hub Australia, which has similar spaces in Sydney and Melbourne.
The Hub has 163 members currently, 29 per cent of them permanent and with a demographic profile slightly tipped towards females.
Members of one hub enjoy reciprocal benefits at the other sites, which includes free wi-fi connectivity and printing and shared community events, including weekly gold coin lunches.
About 60 per cent are freelancers, entrepreneurs and small business; 20 per cent corporate; 20 per cent government and local councils.
Majority of the members are ‘hotdeskers’ while 31 per cent use it for learning events and networking.
Permanent member Hemisphere Design - a design firm specialising in landscapes and placemaking - completed 14 years in business at the end of April.
Founder and principal Stuart Heseltine says being part of the “new paradigm” is inspiring and exciting.
Being at the hub has already delivered some early returns for him and his team of four.
“Our presence here has secured a job for us that would pay our annual fee.”
Hemisphere Design pays close to $27,500 per year as a premium member of the Hub.
Mr Heseltine says the company is also separately involved in a place-making project - or planning a precinct’s look and culture with all stakeholders) on Peel Street for the government.
“We are actually building a culture of collaborative working in South Australia.
“It’s a new paradigm, building awareness about a new way to work.
“I think we should replicate this model inside the city - bring in other city workers here for half a day to promote a great way to break silos.”
Mr Heseltine said the Hub could be more collaborative and there were some users that still operated behind closed doors.
The shared space is also fostering business connections among the members.
Local business Red Square Productions , a specialist digital publishing solutions consultancy, moved to Hub Adelaide two months ago after relocating from Sydney.
Tony Redhead, owner of Red Square Productions, said it was easy to make new connections, and generate leads and new business.
“The beauty of these professional connections is that they tend to go both ways.”
Hub Adelaide founder Brad Krauskopf said Adelaide has a strong creative vibe and the business community has latched onto the concept extremely fast.
“There is a real hunger for entrepreneurs and smaller businesses to connect with each other.”
I think it's more down to a couple of dysfunctional elements within the council. The anti-progress kind...Waewick wrote:How poor is the latest move by the council on their own bike way.
Talk about dysfunctional.
true.Llessur2002 wrote:I think it's more down to a couple of dysfunctional elements within the council. The anti-progress kind...Waewick wrote:How poor is the latest move by the council on their own bike way.
Talk about dysfunctional.
It's next to Black Market...doubtful.mshagg wrote:Hopefully the drunkards can stop themselves from damaging the new plants long enough for them to get established.
In my opinion, Light Square is a pretty useless public space.mshagg wrote:Southern end of light square getting some much needed love. Fished a beer bottle out of there today. Hopefully the drunkards can stop themselves from damaging the new plants long enough for them to get established.
ml69 wrote:In my opinion, Light Square is a pretty useless public space.mshagg wrote:Southern end of light square getting some much needed love. Fished a beer bottle out of there today. Hopefully the drunkards can stop themselves from damaging the new plants long enough for them to get established.
At some point in the future, ACC should bite the bullet and extend Morphett St straight up through the middle of Light Sq, intersecting with Currie St. Looking at Google Maps, you'd have to take out some trees, but no significant trees in order to do this.
The current roadways on the eastern and western sides of the square should then be substantially reduced in width to become one-way 45 degree parking.
Consequently, there will be enlarged pedestrian spaces in front of the Art Centre on the NW corner and Adelaide TAFE on the NE corner, thereby making the layout similar to Hindmarsh Square, arguably the most successful of the 4 squares in the CBD.
That is unlikely to happen given how much traffic uses Pulteney Street.
They have, twice. They used the south eastern quadrant.mshagg wrote:i dont think you could hold something like fork in the road in hindmarsh due to the lack of contiguous space caused by having pultney and grenfell dissecting it into 4 smaller spaces.
In the largest office market transaction in the Adelaide CBD for 2014, Savills has exclusively negotiated the off-market sale of the 22 King William Street office building for $41.8 million.
The 14-level B-Grade office building is the Adelaide headquarters for the National Australia Bank (NAB), which occupies 63% of the building’s total net lettable area...
Savills:The 22 King William Street building was completed circa 1970, with subsequent refurbishments undertaken in 1987 and 2010. The 4.5 star NABERS rated building consists of basement, two ground floor retail tenancies and 12 levels of office accommodation, including a mezzanine, with an average floor plate size of 700sq m.
Internode today unveils the AdelaideFree wireless network, which provides free wireless Internet access for more than 30,000 people each day throughout central Adelaide.
In a partnership with the South Australian Government and Adelaide City Council, Internode has created a wireless network with nearly 300 wireless access points that saturates almost the entire Central Business District.
AdelaideFree provides blanket coverage between North Terrace and Wakefield Street/Grote Street and broad access areas in the south city, North Adelaide and the most heavily frequented parts of the Adelaide parklands.
Internode:The network, one of the largest CBD-wide outdoor wireless networks in the world, was well tested during the "Mad March" festival season with peak usage of more than 5000 simultaneous connections. Currently, more than 30,000 people use AdelaideFree to access the Internet every day.
Internode Chief Business Officer Greg Bader said the AdelaideFree Wi-Fi network provided high-speed Internet access with more than double the wireless coverage of the previous Citylan network."AdelaideFree provides seamless Wi-Fi coverage for the CBD with great data speeds," he said.
Since winning a $1.5 million contract with the SA Government and the City of Adelaide last August, Internode has deployed nearly 200 Cisco Wireless N outdoor wireless access points throughout the CBD, including a fleet of 10 mobile access points for deployment at special events. Internode plans to add another 11 access points at the SA State Library and SA Museum in coming months.
Internode has also renamed its 10-year-old free wireless network (formerly Citylan) to become part of the AdelaideFree network. This adds nearly 100 extra wireless access points to the network, most of them located within cafes and businesses throughout the Adelaide CBD.
The AdelaideFree Wi-Fi network is installed at external locations throughout the CBD including iconic sites such as the Festival Centre, the SA Museum, the State Library, the National Wine Centre and The Science Exchange, the state-of-the-art corporate function centre located in the historic Adelaide Stock Exchange building.
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