21-storey Rundle St apartment block bid
A developer has lodged plans for a 21-level apartment building on the corner of Rundle Street and East Terrace, with the application requiring “partial demolition and conservation works to State and Local Heritage Places”.
Plans have been lodged for a 21-storey Rundle Street apartment block. Images aren't yet released. Photo: Thomas Kelsall/InDaily, Image: Tom Aldahn/InDaily
Melbourne property magnate Ross Pelligra filed a development application last Wednesday to construct a 21-level mixed used building featuring residential dwellings, offices, shops, and car parking at 292-300 Rundle Street, opposite The Stag hotel.
The prime east end site overlooking the park lands is currently occupied by dessert bar San Churro and Sicily Pizzeria.
Pelligra snapped up the corner property after an earlier plan from another developer to build a 20-storey luxury apartment tower on the site fell through, reportedly due to a lack of apartment sales.
The previous development, known as “Monument”, was 63 metres tall and featured 74 luxury apartments, including four penthouses.
A computer image of the former “Monument” development, designed by architects BDA and TECTVS, which was approved in 2017. New designs for the Rundle Street site are yet to be publicly released.
It received development approval from the former Development Assessment Commission in 2017 and was supposed to be completed by 2020.
Pelligra’s new plan for 292-300 Rundle Street includes an application for “partial demolition and conservation works to State and Local Heritage Places”.
The proposed development is next to the state heritage listed former butchers’ shop at 290 Rundle Street – a circa-1880s building which is now home to restaurant Daughter in Law.
A local heritage listing also applies to 296-298 Rundle Street, an old shopfront within the development site.
The state heritage-listed butchers’ shop (left) is located next to 292-300 Rundle Street. Photo: Thomas Kelsall/InDaily
It is unclear what heritage demolition and preservation works are proposed. The development has been referred to Heritage Minster Susan Close, who is due to make a submission on the proposal by November 18.
If approved, Pelligra’s 20-storey tower would transform Rundle Street and be the only high-rise apartment block on the east end retail and hospitality strip.
It would also be in the vicinity of the 138-metre-tall Crowne Plaza Hotel on Frome Street – currently Adelaide’s tallest building – and the adjacent Realm Adelaide residential block.
Pelligra is chair of Melbourne-based developer Pelligra Group. The property firm also owns the former Holden manufacturing plant in Elizabeth, which it is repurposing into an industrial and business park.
