Ocean Surfers Paradise: Latest updates on 76-level tower

Construction of a 76-level Surfers Paradise super-tower has reached a major milestone, with high rise king Harry Triguboff flying in to mark the occasion.

CONSTRUCTION of 76-level Surfers Paradise super-tower Ocean has reached the halfway mark, with the building soaring past its neighbours.

Australia’s apartments king, Harry Triguboff, flew into the Gold Coast on Thursday and went straight to The Esplanade site to mark the construction milestone.

It was the first time in three months that he had been able to inspect Ocean because of Queensland border closures.

“I’m over the moon over the way the tower’s climbing and ecstatic over the way it looks,” said the 87-year-old founder of the Meriton group.

How the Ocean supertower will look when it’s finished.

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“I feel we’re really doing what is a very special site justice and it appears our buyers do too.

“Sales are, like Ocean, on the up and up and they can only get better.

“I’m certain Tuesday’s border reopening is going to release the floodgates to hordes of people who want to buy into the Gold Coast lifestyle.

“Fortuitously for us, Ocean’s the only choice they have if they want a new off-the-plan high-rise in Surfers Paradise.”

Construction of 76-level Surfers Paradise super-tower Ocean has reached the halfway mark, with the building soaring past its neighbours.

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The Ocean milestone put it two floors above its tallest neighbour, Imperial Surf, with Ocean’s core four floors higher again.

Ocean project manager Murray Herrod said the team of 350 people working on the tower was averaging a floor every five days.

“At this rate, and weather permitting, the structure will be completed by September next year.

“It then will take another six months to fit out the building.”

A view of the tower’s ground level on The Esplanade.

The ground floor pool and beach club.

Ocean, which is on the doorstep of a light-rail station, will have 711 apartments and hotel suites, plus cafes and restaurants on the ground and first floors.

Mr Triguboff plans to have a Meriton Suites hotel open on the lower 32 floors by July.

Eunice Arden-Wood, Meriton project sales manager, yesterday said the group was on the verge of selling 150 of the 387 residential apartments in the tower.

She said sales had been steady over the past six months, despite the COVID-19 lockdown, and prices ranged from $450,000 to $1.4 million.