Out with the old, in with the new: Community backs another restaurant for old Buffalo site
Everything old is new again, with community consultation finding another restaurant or bar is the most popular idea for the waterfront site of the former Buffalo replica at Glenelg.
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The site of the old Buffalo restaurant at Glenelg could be turned into another restaurant if the community gets its way.
A restaurant or cafe have emerged as the frontrunners to replace the replica Buffalo ship which was last year dismantled after years of closure.
Public consultation on the now fenced-off site found the community was overwhelmingly in favour of using the waterfront spot for another eating and drinking business.
A number of the 176 people who responded to the survey also made specific written comments supporting a cafe, kiosk, bar or restaurant.
Those surveyed were able to cast three votes for the options of eating and drinking, recreation, nature, community events and arts, history and culture.
Young families, adults and visitors were also identified as those the space should benefit most.
Holdfast Bay Council has included $75,000 in its draft budget for the next financial year to partly fund concept designs for the Adelphi Terrace site.
It has also applied to the Department of Planning Transport and Infrastructure for another $75,000 under its Places for People grant program.
A tender for designs will be put out in July, after which three detailed concepts would be created based on the results of the community consultation.
The designs would be put out for further consultation at the end of the year and refined, including detailed costings, before the end of the financial year.
Funding would then be sought to begin work in July 2021.
Councillors have already allocated $13,000 for a permanent fence around the site of the former replica boat restaurant, in place of temporary fencing.
The replica HMS Buffalo was demolished in September – many months after it was supposed to have been removed.
The Buffalo was bought by Troy DeYoung for just $1 in 2014, with a planned $1 million upgrade approved in 2017.
It was announced in January 2019 that the project would not happen due to costs.
The original HMS Buffalo brought the first settlers to Glenelg in 1836 but was destroyed in a shipwreck four years later.