Flyover Adelaide’s Festival Plaza car park project
The virus hasn’t halted this. The CBD’s biggest building site has been hidden for months but now new aerial images reveal a glimpse of what the army of workers has been up to.
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The Adelaide CBD’s biggest private sector construction site, Festival Square, is injecting almost $60 million into the economy and demonstrating the benefits of shovel-ready projects, says developer Walker Corp.
Senior project manager Ben Hamilton said almost 30 SA businesses were directly benefiting from building the 1560-space underground car park between Parliament House and the Adelaide Festival Centre.
The site has been shrouded by barricades for months but pictures and a flyover video released to the Sunday Mail show the project’s huge scale.
The car park is part of the long-awaited $600 million Festival Plaza development – being branded Festival Square by Walker Corporation – which also includes a 27-storey office tower between the Adelaide Casino and Parliament House and a three-level, premium retail and entertainment precinct.
“Walker’s car park construction partner (Built) expects to engage 29 South Australian businesses for 30 of its subcontracts by the time this phase of the project is finished (in mid-2021),” Mr Hamilton said.
“The car park phase of the project has also created work for 13 South Australian apprentices.
“With four of the six car park slabs now underway or complete, Festival Square is a great example of why shovel ready construction projects are critical to the state’s economic recovery.”
More than 1000 SA workers have been inducted onto the site to deliver the car park and public plaza but Mr Hamilton said the next phase would deliver more jobs.
“Construction of the 40,000sq m premium grade office tower will create thousands more construction jobs and many more opportunities for apprentices,” he said.
“Shovel-ready projects are critical during these difficult times to keep tradies and their apprentices on the tools.”
Apprentice Marshall Wallace, pictured above, said projects like Festival Square put Adelaide on the map.
“This project and projects like it will bring more people to Adelaide and more opportunity for smaller and larger business,” he said.