View from the top of Adelaide’s new tallest building

It’s official — Adelaide has a new tallest building. The $150m Frome Central development, home to the 135m Adelaidean and Crowne Plaza hotel, has “topped out”. CHECK OUT THE VIEW.

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Adelaide. This is your new high point.

The $150 million Frome Central development, which will be home to the Adelaidean luxury apartment complex and Crowne Plaza hotel, officially “topped out” at 135 metres on Friday.

Designed by Adelaide architecture firm Brown Falconer on behalf of developer Kyren Group, the mixed-use tower now stands taller than Westpac House.

But only by three metres.

The Frome Central development, located across the road from Lot Fourteen, has 36 floors — five more than Westpac House.

The view from the top of the Frome Central development — officially SA’s tallest building.

The tower, home to the Adelaidean and Crowne Plaza Adelaide, reached its pinnacle construction milestone.

Kyren Group founder and managing director Theo Samaras said the Crowne Plaza hotel will create up to 140 ongoing positions in Adelaide’s East End.

“We are enormously proud to reach this stage of a project that is changing the skyline of

Adelaide and is the physical realisation of years of hard work for many South Australians,” he said.

The new Crowne Plaza hotel will have 329 guest rooms from the 3rd floor to the 20th floor, including 20 suites, and will include more than 450 square metres of meeting and conference space as well as a Skydeck pool area, bar, restaurant, gym and parking facilities.

The view down North Terrace.

It beats Westpac House by three metres.

However, construction of the tower hasn’t been without its challenges.

In August this year, The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMMEU) launched legal action, claiming officials were unlawfully denied entry to a major CBD building site and “intimidated and threatened” at the site.

In 2018, Kyren Group launched court action in an attempt to block the neighbouring $60 million student accommodation development by Global Student Accommodation Australia after SCAP approved it in April.