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Bizarre SA projects that never saw the light of day
Miles Kemp & Lynton Grace
They are the grand, weird, and downright silly Adelaide projects that never got off the ground.  Some came with eye-watering price tags, some made us laugh. Others prompted a sigh of relief when they were finally scrapped.
Way back before he became premier in 2018, Steven Marshall had a big boat to float at Glenelg. The “exciting development” was a rejuvenated Glenelg jetty with a twist.
THE FLOATING HOTEL AT GLENELG
Mr Marshall wanted the taxpayer to fork out $20m to develop a Holdfast Bay council idea for a floating hotel just off the jetty.The thought bubble burst when he finally won government.
First proposed in 1987, and eventually abandoned in 1997, the Multi-Function Polis was national news. It was supposed to be a small, super-hi-tech city built on a swamp at Gillman, led by Japanese investment.
MULTI-FUNCTION POLIS
Good old-fashioned racism was one of the reasons the project fizzled. There were fears of an Asian enclave. The federal government pulled out in 1996 after Japanese investors dumped the project after negative coverage.
The annual V8 race on the Adelaide street circuit attracted between 200,000 and 300,000 spectators every year, more than justifying, some argued, a permanent presence in the city.
ADELAIDE 500  PERMANENT GRANDSTAND
But after an eight-year courtship, the race was left at the altar when Adelaide couldn’t agree on a permanent grandstand at the racetrack site in Victoria Park.
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