Otello’s Mile End Apartment Project Tops Out

An Adelaide developer has reached the zenith of its eight-storey mixed-use apartment block on the city’s fringe at Mile End. 

Otello tooled up to become a builder-developer with the establishment of Build.Society to help deliver multi-storey mixed-use residential projects, including the Treno project. 

Otello managing director Daniel Harris said the site had protected view corridors to the CBD and parklands, as well as strong public transport connections from the city-fringe suburb, 1.6km west of the city. 

He said the topping out of the project, his first medium-rise apartment project, was an important milestone. 

But it is not the largest Otello has coming out of the ground with a 10-storey mixed-use tower rising on a site at Kent Town on the other side of the city. 

The second stage of Treno, the eight-storey apartment block and second tranche of townhouses, abuts the first award-winning stage of townhouses. 

The latest stage comprises 18 townhouses, 20 apartments of one, two or three bedrooms, three penthouses, and a small retail tenancy at ground plane. 

Two of the three penthouses would feature private rooftop terraces with 360-degree views across Adelaide. 

The Studio Nine Architects-designed project also features an architectural void through the building providing natural light throughout, curved concrete columns and a warm brick facade. 

▲ A rendering of the second stage of Treno at Mile End in Adelaide.

The apartment block is due to complete in September and the townhouses are to be delivered subsequent to that. 

UDIA SA chief executive Liam Golding said it was good to see a project of this calibre coming to life to provide housing diversity. 

Otello is also developing a 32-apartment block at the Bowden precinct overlooking Plant 4, a commercial project in the Tonsley Precinct, and has further residential and mixed-use projects in the pipeline.