There’s some firsts associated with Adelaide’s $600-million Market Square project—Australia’s first treehouse hotel and its developer ICD Property’s first project in South Australia—but it’s how the two-tower project will gel with something that’s been around for 150 years that makes it unique.

ICD Property chief executive Matt Khoo says Adelaide’s central market, which has occupied the site next door for 150 years, is “the backbone” of the precinct around Grote and Gouger streets that also includes the city’s Chinatown.

“The market is an absolute amenity for that precinct,” Khoo [pictured above, with Market Square in the background] tells The Urban Developer.