Plans to turn Adelaide residential development into a hotel under consideration

A 26-storey tower in Adelaide that was originally approved as an apartment block is now being considered for approval as a hotel instead.

Developer Alto Adelaide changed their original residential development application lodged with the state government in 2014 to a proposal for a 200-room hotel on Franklin Street late last year.

The development would see the existing two-storey office building demolished to make way for a new ground-level entrance lobby, mezzanine, 25 floors of hotel rooms and roof terrace.

“The high-scale hotel development proposed, in conjunction with non-residential land uses at ground, is anticipated to generate pedestrian activity during the day, evening and late night, as desired within the Capital City Zone,” the report stated.

“The subject is located within the Affordable Housing Designated Area … noting a hotel land use is proposed in this case.”

The plan is currently being assessed by the State Commission Assessment Panel.

Sheridan Randall, 4^th March 2020