Salisbury Council announces $200m city centre redevelopment to include homes, hotel, businesses, carpark

Retail, homes, retirement living, a hotel and a free multi-level carpark are all set for the heart of Salisbury as the council reveals a massive renewal project. Watch the video.

Salisbury’s city centre will undergo a $200m facelift including a hotel, 200 new homes, free multi-level carpark, premium supermarket and new retail and commercial spaces across six new mixed-use sites.

The five-year project helmed by Salisbury Council alongside SA contractors Buildtec and Catcorp consortium will redevelop two hectares and bring “unprecedented renewal” to the area.

The first stage across two sites is due to start in 2025 and will include 50 residential apartments and a 535-space, free undercover multi-level carpark alongside new commercial and retail spaces.

Stage two will include more than 60 retirement living homes, a hotel with more than 50 rooms, 50 build-to-rent apartments and more retail and commercial spaces. In total, 200 new homes will be built.

The project is estimated to create more than 160 jobs directly and indirectly.

Church St will be upgraded and extended to improve access to the new developments, with the council to investigate improving connection to the Salisbury Highway.

Renders of apartments at Church St, which are part of Salisbury Council’s $200m redevelopment of its city centre.

Local optometry business owner Dion Stanbury said the development would help bring “the villagers back to the village”.

“I think Salisbury has a great tradition of being a great regional hub, and with all the shopping centres that built up around it, that’s not so much the case as much as it used to be,” Mr Stanbury said.

“It was crying out for (this development) to happen because it is so well-suited for this kind of development.”

Salisbury Mayor Gillian Aldridge, who has lived in the area for 58 years, said it was the first time housing would be available in the centre of Salisbury.

“(There will be) retirement living for those of us ageing to perfection and wanting the perfect place to live,” Ms Aldridge said.

“You have the people of my generation saying ‘we don’t want a quarter-acre block, we want something smaller’ … we always speak to our community and they are right behind us being progressive.”

An artist impression of the ground-floor supermarket of the city centre redevelopment.

How Church St would look after Salisbury Council’s $200m redevelopment of its city centre.

The Salisbury City Centre’s $200m redevelopment includes affordable homes, apartments and retirement units. Picture: City of Salisbury

Artist impression of the supermarket and multi-level carpark proposed under the redevelopment. Picture: City of Salisbury

The project is the next stage in Salisbury Council’s city centre renewal program, which included the newly opened aquatic centre redevelopment and the $43m Salisbury Community Hub, built in 2019.

The council anticipates the centre will become a “catalyst for new commercial investment in the northern region” and is projected to boost the local economy and attract new businesses to the northern suburb.

Buildtec and Catcorp were selected after a national expression of interest campaign and both have “extensive” experience delivering large-scale, urban developments together including the award-winning masterplanned community Norwood Green.

Ramsay MP Zoe Bettison said commercial partners were already in talks to fill some of the spaces, and the hotel would help bring more businesses into Salisbury for conferences and conventions.

“Obviously we have got some very established shopping areas, but we’d like to revitalise that mix,” Ms Bettison said.

“Hotels play many different roles … we often see this with the Crown Plaza going up in Mawson Lakes just next door … People want different options.”

Planning Minister Nick Champion said the council was one of the “best administered councils in the state” and the masterplan was proof of that.

“This proposed project absolutely proves the strategic insight and vision for this city,” Mr Champion said.

Mr Champion has given the State Commission Assessment Panel (SCAP) final planning authority, given the significance of the project for the northern region.

He said bringing SCAP on board as the assessment body was an “indication” of the importance of Salisbury to the wider city of Adelaide.

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