Developer plans 10-storey apartment complex for site of former Wigg and Son envelope factory on Port Rd, Thebarton
THE landscape of Adelaide’s west could change forever with a developer’s push to flatten the former E.S. Wigg and Son envelope factory. See what’s planned in its spot.
THE Thebarton landscape could change forever with a developer’s push to flatten the former E.S. Wigg and Son envelope factory and build a 10-storey apartment block in its place.
PRD Project Management has lodged plans with the Development Assessment Commission for a $120 million apartment, hotel and retail complex on the 7000sq m Port Rd site.
The project, which exceeds the eight-storey height recommendation for the area, includes space for a microbrewery, restaurant and cafe.
The former factory has been part of the Thebarton streetscape since the early 1900s, but is not heritage listed.
The new complex would include three buildings — one for apartments, another for offices and a carpark, and the third for serviced apartments.
There would be a restaurant with its own microbrewery, opposite the Southwark Hotel, a central plaza and a separate garden for residents.
The microbrewery would produce about 1000L of beer a week but would “not represent intense industrial activity”, according to the developer’s application.
Project Spokesman Damien Ellis said the development’s 90 apartments would be designed to appeal to young professionals.
The hotel foyer would be on the corner of Phillips and Walsh streets, and there would be space for shops along Walsh St and to the north of the site.
“Aside from the microbrewery, restaurant and cafe, we can confirm there will also be a gourmet food market,” Mr Ellis said.
He said the hotel was needed because of a lack of quality hotels in the city’s west, and would be close to universities, the new Royal Adelaide Hospital and SAHMRI. Mr Ellis said developers were negotiating with an international brand to run the hotel but would not reveal which one.