Apartment Plans Revealed for Adelaide’s ‘Hipster’ Prospect
A seven-storey apartment building planned for Prospect in Adelaide’s inner north would cater to the suburb’s upwardly mobile population, with a ground-floor cafe and by increasing passive surveillance, according to the project’s developer.
Peter Major, director of the eponymously named Major Developments, said Prospect—just north of Adelaide’s central parklands—was “an up-and-coming” suburb.
“It’s a younger, hipstery, professional family type of area,” he told The Urban Developer.
“There’s a lot of young couples, young families with prams going for a coffee in the morning.”
If approved by South Australia’s State Commission Assessment Panel, Major Developments’ project would have 18 two-bedroom apartments, six three-bedroom apartments, a 45sq m ground-floor cafe and 30 car spaces.
Planned for a 630sq m site on the corner of Devonport Terrace and Belford Avenue, the apartments would overlook tree-lined Charles Cane-Parndo Yerta Reserve about 250m south of Dudley Park train station.
The project’s basement would have 14 car spaces and 10 bicycle spaces while the ground level would have 16 car parks and 10 bicycle spaces.
A single-storey brick-and-tile house on the site would be demolished to make way for the development.
Major said his seven-storey project would be a plus for Prospect.
“We’re genuinely trying to contribute to the neighbourhood,” he said.
“The development is not a shoebox development.
“We’ve got generous size units, some of them have two car parks and it’s a cracking spot.”
He said the project would have four apartments per storey that would all face the park and have access to sun from the front and rear of the building.
“Our cafe will be on the cycle track into the city, so you could just, if you’re cycling in, pull over and grab a coffee, hang out and continue your cycle afterwards if you felt like it,” he said.
“A lot of the coffee shops that have been built, they have to be built if you want to get a certain amount of floors in Prospect.
“When they’re occupied, they really contribute to the area; the more people there are walking around grabbing coffees, there’s extra surveillance and that contributes to the area.”
Public comment on the planned apartment building is due to close on May 8.
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