Showing posts with label leftbank. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leftbank. Show all posts

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Vida West End

PointCorp is developing an apartment complex at 101 Riverside Drive, West End.  This is next door to Pradella's Left Bank development, and near to Pradella's Tempo development.

This new development is being marketed as Vida.  It consists of two towers of about 10 floors each, with about 150 apartments.  Some apartments will look West across the river.  About half the apartments will look East towards West End.

The Courier Mail says that for the apartments on the riverside, 1 bedrooms will be from $460,000; 2 bedrooms from $660,000; and three bedrooms from $1.2 million.  It will be interesting to see how expensive the apartments on the higher floors will be.

Compare a recent listing in Left Bank next door -- two bedrooms on a lower floor with river views for $599,000.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Flood Update

When driving down Coronation Drive tonight (Monday), some apartment buildings were dark and empty. This included Coronation Residences. Koko apartments at West End were dark, but I understand only the basement was flooded. (Update: As at Australia Day, Koko Apartments were still evacuated; and Pradella's Left Bank carpark was still closed.)
Koko video one, two and river

Monday, October 20, 2008

Ray White Sunday Auction Results

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

West End Unit Owners are Concerned

"WEST END: Riverside apartment dwellers are banding together in a bid to give their direction on the future shape of the community. More than 30 residents from the Flow, Koko, Leftbank and Tempo complexes have met to discuss the need to build a sense of community in the area. Regatta Apartments body corporate chairman Paul Rees said they hoped to build a liveable community, not only for apartment dwellers but the whole of West End.

“We’re planning a series of regular events to build community in our area and the first event will be a breakfast in Riverside Park on Sunday, December 7 at 9am,” Mr Rees said.

He said they invited local, state and federal representatives as well as community groups and property developers to attend the breakfast to hear their ideas. Among residents’ concerns are building heights, closing Riverside Drive to public traffic and fast-tracking plans for a CityCat terminal. And Mr Rees said residents felt they were not consulted about increasing building heights.

“We are appalled at the suggestions of 15, 20 and 30-storey highrises being built here,” he said.

“We moved into this area believing the height limit would be seven storeys and we don’t want to see our area turned into a concrete jungle,” Mr Rees said.

He said a CityCat terminal and a reliable bus service on Montague Rd were important to give residents adequate public transport. Mr Rees said they supported redevelopment of the old riverside industrial areas as long as it was on a “human scale” and integrated with the established community of West End, “rather than creating a concrete barrier between West End and the river”."

See City South News

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Pradella's New West End Development

Soon, Flow will be complete. Next door, Pradella will launch a new West End riverside development. I suspect it will be worth considering.

It does not have a name, but it does have a website.

Pradella will have developed three West End riverside complexes:
  • Flow (to be completed in 2007) which looked extremely overpriced, but now just looks expensive; some apartments will be excellent (riverside on high floor) and some are not great
  • New and unnamed
  • LeftBank which is still looking very good
Stockland has Koko, which didn't live up to expectations.

And there is Riverpoint, currently selling off-the-plan, which looks very mixed.

I suspect there will be more to come.