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

[Jim]

A bit off track from 76-91 Rundle Mall but as we are talking now about the parade grounds,
I would much rather see the parade grounds made into a beautiful amphitheater/parade grounds for 20,000 using the natural fall of the land behind government house with back stage and new parade buildings built under Victoria drive and a redeveloped jollies boat house. See the tread “governor’s place”

[Tyler_Durden]

Note the escalators going straight up to the second level directly from Rundle Mall (on the left in the third image).

Interesting that they chose to put the down escalator on the mall as well, rather than have it lead into the arcade itself.

Are they doing anything to the Grenfell Street end?

So far the Haighs redo

Haighs has moved out, but that's Adelaide Arcade not Regent. There is no evidence of any changes to the Grenfell St end of the Regent Arcade. All the renovations visible are within 20-30 metres of Rundla Mall. Even the old cinema entrance about a third of the way down the arcade from the mall end is still blocked off as it has been since the cinema closed.

[shaun]

Oops got the arcades mixed up

[skyliner]

Would be good to see the old Regent cinema open up as THE theatre of this type in Adelaide. I'm sure the population is there for this to occur. (the entrepreneur taking off in me again!).Most of these looked at 500 or so and were styled to appeal to the wealthy - not teenagers. One exists in Bris. done up in the 1920's style coupled with grand entrance arcade of the same ambience and top end market catering. Big, expensive and classy. ( a little overpowering).

Back to the thread heading - anyone know when this supposed to happened?

ADELAIDE - TOWARDS A GREATER CITY SKYLINE

[cruel_world00]

Would be good to see the old Regent cinema open up as THE theatre of this type in Adelaide. I'm sure the population is there for this to occur. (the entrepreneur taking off in me again!).Most of these looked at 500 or so and were styled to appeal to the wealthy - not teenagers. One exists in Bris. done up in the 1920's style coupled with grand entrance arcade of the same ambience and top end market catering. Big, expensive and classy. ( a little overpowering).

Back to the thread heading - anyone know when this supposed to happened?

ADELAIDE - TOWARDS A GREATER CITY SKYLINE

It would be nice to see something like this turn into a function place or a music venue. Adelaide lacks a lot of the old school venues that the eastern states have. Dunno what kind of set up is left in the theatre because I haven't been there for years.

[skyliner]

Last I was there was 1975! (It was open then).

ADELAIDE - TOWARDS A GREATER CITY SKYLINE

[monotonehell]

Would be good to see the old Regent cinema open up as THE theatre of this type in Adelaide. I'm sure the population is there for this to occur. (the entrepreneur taking off in me again!).Most of these looked at 500 or so and were styled to appeal to the wealthy - not teenagers. One exists in Bris. done up in the 1920's style coupled with grand entrance arcade of the same ambience and top end market catering. Big, expensive and classy. ( a little overpowering).

Back to the thread heading - anyone know when this supposed to happened?

ADELAIDE - TOWARDS A GREATER CITY SKYLINE

Guys, the building's been gutted and has been turned into upstairs shopping. The cinema didn't close that long ago (along with Academy a beer bottle's throw across Hindmarsh Square) I doubt you could bring a convincing business case to reopen a cinema in the face of that, no matter how exclusive you make it (in fact probably less so).

[cruel_world00]

Would be good to see the old Regent cinema open up as THE theatre of this type in Adelaide. I'm sure the population is there for this to occur. (the entrepreneur taking off in me again!).Most of these looked at 500 or so and were styled to appeal to the wealthy - not teenagers. One exists in Bris. done up in the 1920's style coupled with grand entrance arcade of the same ambience and top end market catering. Big, expensive and classy. ( a little overpowering).

Back to the thread heading - anyone know when this supposed to happened?

ADELAIDE - TOWARDS A GREATER CITY SKYLINE

Guys, the building's been gutted and has been turned into upstairs shopping. The cinema didn't close that long ago (along with Academy a beer bottle's throw across Hindmarsh Square) I doubt you could bring a convincing business case to reopen a cinema in the face of that, no matter how exclusive you make it (in fact probably less so).

I wasn't saying it should re open as a cinema, but it could be used as a venue for theatre performances, intimate band settings or ritzy dinner types. Although if you're saying it's been gutted, it might not be suitable. Oh well.

[monotonehell]

I wasn't saying it should re open as a cinema, but it could be used as a venue for theatre performances, intimate band settings or ritzy dinner types. Although if you're saying it's been gutted, it might not be suitable. Oh well.

Good news: they've left the walls (some of them) and the ceiling. I wonder what happened to the organ that came out of the floor?

Adelaide is littered with old cinemas from our pre-TV days. Most of them quite small, there's apparently one in the sub-basement of the building that now houses the Gawler UPark. I imagine it would be an awful mess down there these days.

But we digress off topic again.

[Omicron]

I wasn't saying it should re open as a cinema, but it could be used as a venue for theatre performances, intimate band settings or ritzy dinner types. Although if you're saying it's been gutted, it might not be suitable. Oh well.

Good news: they've left the walls (some of them) and the ceiling. I wonder what happened to the organ that came out of the floor?

Adelaide is littered with old cinemas from our pre-TV days. Most of them quite small, there's apparently one in the sub-basement of the building that now houses the Gawler UPark. I imagine it would be an awful mess down there these days.

But we digress off topic again.

Whilst off topic, may I suggest the installation of a Mighty Wurlitzer? We could have milk bars and drugstores encircling it, and gingham-clad wenches on roller-skates delivering burgers laced with saturated fats and neon lights!

[white_goodman]

is there a development application on exhibition anywhere>?

[Ben]

This development is currently on public notification already.

To be known as Rundle Place Arcade. Will be 92m to roof so quite a big building. Will make a noticable impact on the skyline from most angles.

There are skyline elevations in the documents but I couldn't work out how to post them.

Grenfell St perspective:



Rundle Mall perspective:

[shaun]

Phor!

I love it, this is what Rundle Mall needs, though isn't this going to block SA Water from the north

[UrbanSG]

Looks impressive from the north which is good. More glass on the northern skyline is desperately needed. It will completely block out the current SA Water building from a particular angle.

They are fairly serous about this one. The planning report mentions Hansen and Yuncken as the builders and a start date for the retail portion Feb 2009 completed Dec 2010 and then the office completed mid-2011. Interesting but I guess these dates are likely to change. Also it mentions a supermarket for the basement level.

Here is a scanned version of the skyline perspective (they seem to have a lock on the pdf so it couldn't be directly copied as Ben said).

[omada]

Brilliant! Bring it on!