Apartment complex with car stacker on Light Square a step closer to being approved

Messenger City: A 15-storey apartment building with Adelaide's first automatic car stacking system will be built by the middle of next year.

A 15-storey apartment building with Adelaide's first automatic car stacking system will be built by the middle of next year.

Residents would push a button in their apartment and their car would be delivered from the six-level stacker within three minutes.

The Development Assessment Commission considered the $25 million proposal for Light Square yesterday and decided to delegate final approval to staff, subject to final design revisions.

The building will rise above the facade of the state heritage-listed City Mission Hall.

Intro Design director Damien Ellis, who is handling the project for developer Diadem Corporation, said construction would start within three months and be completed by mid-2014.

The building will have 61 single, two and three-bedroom apartments.

The commission approved the conversion of historic, long vacant Electra House in King William St into a licensed hotel, that the Aspen Group has previously said would become "one of Adelaide's premier food and drink venues".

Assessment of a large multi-use residential, hotel and student housing development on Gouger St was deferred.

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