Gold Coast development: New tower planned for beachside site in central Palm Beach

A beachfront site just metres away from the sand will be transformed into a new tower with million dollar views of Palm Beach.

A BEACHFRONT site just metres away from the sand will be transformed into a new tower with million dollar views of Palm Beach.

Developer Dayview Holdings has unveiled plans for Aurora, a nine-storey medium rise building which is earmarked for a 818 sqm site on the corner of Gold Coast Highway and Thirteenth Ave fronting onto Jefferson Lane.

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Artist impression of proposed Aurora building planned for a Palm Beach site on Thirteenth Ave

The tower will feature just 29 units and would replace an older two-storey residential building.

“The proposed development will deliver new housing choice and increased residential density in the form of a new medium rise apartment building of exceptional architectural quality,” a report to the council said.

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The building the tower would replace.

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“The high-quality urban design outcomes of the proposed development will contribute positively to the enhancement of local streetscape character and promote legibility in the urban environment through the delivery of a distinctive new apartment building denoting this corner location where a direct link to the public beachfront of Palm Beach is accessible along the frontage of the site to Thirteenth Ave.”

A development application was submitted last week.

The tower is just metres away from the beach.