Fish House bulldozed to make way for new tower at Burleigh Heads

Two large rival construction groups will work metres apart as two new apartment towers, targeting multi-millionaires, get into full swing at Burleigh Heads.

TWO large rival construction groups will work metres apart as two new apartment towers targeting multi-millionaires – one on the Fish House site – get into full swing at Burleigh Heads.

Brisbane developer David Calvisi, who is behind the projects – 10-level Norfolk and eight-storey Luna – says the two-at-once move is deliberate.

Mr Calvisi yesterday said the move to have construction teams working “alongside” each other was planned.

“We were sure the buyers in Norfolk did not want to move into their dream apartments only to have to face 12 months of construction activity right on their doorstep,” he said.

“This way the buildings will be completed at roughly the same time in a year or so.

The former Fish House site at Burleigh is being redeveloped to make way for a tower.

“The other benefit of undertaking a two-at-once approach is that the period of any possible disruption to traffic in Goodwin Tce will be limited.”

Brisbane-based Hutchinsons has work under way on Norfolk in Goodwin Tce, in which apartments have sold at up to $8.5 million.

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Next door, where demolition of the Fish House has been completed, the Toowoomba-based McNab group is poised to start work on Luna, in which the penthouse sold for $7 million.

Both Hutchinsons and McNab already have major presences on the Gold Coast.

The developer of Norfolk and Luna is Brisbane’s Forme group, headed by Mr Calvisi and Byron Griffith, two former schoolmates in their 30s.

Forme has $18.5 million invested in the two sites – the Norfolk one is 1012sq m and the Luna one half that size – and achieved total sales ­approaching $100 million.

Jamie-Lee Edwards, the principal of JLE Projects, yesterday said all but two of Norfolk’s apartments had sold.

They were a 287sq m half-floor apartment on the third level, priced at $3.9 million, and a 532sq m double-storey beach house with private pool at $6 million.

Ms Edwards said the remaining apartment at Luna, a 261sq m home on level three, had a $4.1 million tag.