ApartmentsChris ThomsonMon 17 Aug 26
Samaras Reveals Latest Link in Adelaide’s Hutt Street Renewal Chain
A South Australian entrepreneur and a director of Adelaide developer Samaras Group are the latest parties to rise to the challenge of revitalising Adelaide’s once buzzing Hutt Street restaurant strip.
Samaras director Kosta Koutsonas—who is developing the project alongside Adelaide entrepreneur John Tsianos—said the boutique building had “no corridors, no lift queues, no lobby full of people you will never meet”.
The development, called London, would comprise eight apartments with frontages of up to 14m at 187 Hutt Street.
The name is inspired by the mature plane trees that form a verdant avenue along the street, which is on the eastern edge of the Adelaide CBD.
With a value of $15 million, the four-storey project’s apartments would be priced from $965,000 to more than $3.5 million.
The building would be next door to the Latteria restaurant. Koutsonas said several people, from heathcare to wine bar operators, had expressed interest in a planned ground-floor tenancy that would face the street.
London project architect Enzo Caroscio said the width of the apartments changed what was possible inside them, including “light in the middle of the home, real separation between living and sleeping, outdoor spaces that work and views across the hills and city”.
“We wanted the luxury residences to sit quietly in the street,” he said.
“Hutt Street already has a rhythm and a scale that works, so the response was to build with it.”
Once a premium restaurant strip, Hutt Street suffered a string of restaurant closures after a decline in foot traffic that began years before Covid and has lingered since.
Now, the City of Adelaide is working up a detailed design to help revitalise the street between South Terrace and Carrington Street. The City anticipates the design will take 12 months to complete.
Koutsonas anticipates construction on London will start later this year and also take 12 months to complete.
Another Hutt Street project, which is due to start in the next week, is Fortis’s and Otello’s 10-storey One Four Four Hutt apartment tower approved in December last year.
