Gold Coast development: Spyre Group unveil plans for new luxury Main Beach tower
The site of a popular Main Beach cafe will be redeveloped to become the suburb’s latest luxury tower. But area residents say they are horrified at the prospect.
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THE site of a popular Main Beach cafe will be redeveloped to become the suburb’s latest luxury tower.
Prolific Brisbane-based developer Spyre Group have bought a Main Beach Parade site which was previously the Lark cafe, with plans to build an 18-storey luxury tower.
Just days after announcing it would demolish Coolangatta’s Komune tower this month to make way for its Cala Dei project, Spyre director Andrew Malouf said the suburb had potential for growth.
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“Our latest project seeks to make a positive contribution to the locality of Main Beach, with its elevated architectural form providing an artistic reflection of the surrounding coastal environment” he said.
“Main Beach presents us with an exciting opportunity to leave our mark on a suburb that we feel is unparalleled in the high-rise multi-residential development space.
“The slender design will showcase an impressive use of space while maintaining an exceptionally boutique living arrangement for residents, set on a sensational corner parcel of land overlooking the Main Beach shoreline.”
A development application filed with the Gold Coast City Council reveals the tower will have just 15 units - 13 three-bedroom apartments and two split-level four-bedroom penthouses.
The project is opposed by Main Beach residents who say it is “totally inappropriate” for the location.
“This is a minuscule site and Lark will be sadly missed, it is very popular,” Main Beach Association president Sue Donovan said.
“It is totally inappropriate to have a project on a site like this.”
The Spyre project is the latest of several major land sales or new developments ticked off by council in the past year.
They include the luxury Monaco tower, a $100 million luxury tower planned for Main Beach Parade for the Four Corners site and La Mer, a $95 million tower planned for the corner of Beulah Lane and Main Beach Parade.
Residents of the suburb are lobbying council to slow the wave of development sweeping the area.
In July the association created a report tipping its population would quadruple within 20 years if the current level of development was sustained.
The figures were based on what is allowable under council’s light rail overlap map and influenced by the current surge during Covid from developers amalgamating sites for super towers with luxury apartments.
Council planning boss Cr Cameron Caldwell suggested to residents they should lobby city hall to remove the overlay.
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