Plans for a 13-storey hotel have been approved, further cementing Adelaide as an emerging hotel hotspot.
The South Australian State Commission Assessment Panel approved the 175-ket hotel proposed by Samaras Construction & Developments at its meeting on March 27.
The project will deliver the hotel with conference rooms, fitness centre and a hotel-operated restaurant at 15-19 Halifax Street in the heart of the state capital.
Designed by PACT Architects, the Crystalbrook Sam hotel will rise on a 1200sq m site that Samaras acquired in 2021 The site had previously been used as a car park.
It will offer 175 hotel rooms, and is close to another of Samaras projects, an office building at 91 Halifax Street which reached practical completion earlier this year.
The Crystalbrook hotel will join a wave of hotel developments in Adelaide, including the $200-million Marriott International Hotel on the state-heritage-listed GPO building. The five-star, 15-storey asset is under construction and being developed by the SA-based Greaton.
Meanwhile, according to the Adelaide Economic Development Agency, site works have commenced on the $74-million Little National Hotel, while a consortium of IHG, Pelligra Group and ONE7 has taken on the repositioning of a 130-key hotel near the CBD.
And developer Tim Gurner filed plans for a major Adelaide precinct including 600 apartments and a luxury hotel late last year.
