Aerial view of Surfers Paradise, March 1973. Gold Coast Bulletin 25 April 1973 $32m SCHEME FOR HEART OF SURFERS company applied to the Gold Coast City Council for permission to go ahead with a $32 million redevelopment plan for the heart of Surfers Paradise. The project featured a giant complex featuring a circular 33-storey tower block as the centrepiece of an international hotel. Other features included a major convention centre, department store, supermarket, specialty stores, bus terminal, cinema, offices, a new surf club, sports facilities and landscaped public areas. It also provide
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Aerial view of Surfers Paradise, March 1973. Gold Coast Bulletin 25 April 1973 $32m SCHEME FOR HEART OF SURFERS company applied to the Gold Coast City Council for permission to go ahead with a $32 million redevelopment plan for the heart of Surfers Paradise. The project featured a giant complex featuring a circular 33-storey tower block as the centrepiece of an international hotel. Other features included a major convention centre, department store, supermarket, specialty stores, bus terminal, cinema, offices, a new surf club, sports facilities and landscaped public areas. It also provided for developing part of Cavill Ave as a pedestrian mall. The redevelopment project was to involve the entire block between the Gold Coast Highway, Cavill Ave and Hanlan St. Hanover Holdings Ltd had an option to buy the block from the Chevron Hotel Group. Under the plan the Surfers Paradise Hotel and other buildings would be bulldozed to make way for the hotel. A dominant feature was to be the circular tower, rising 300 feet above Cavill Ave. Council Health Committee chairman Alderman Gibbs released details of the development and said it contained suggestions for important changes to traffic movements in the area. “It envisages the extension of the Orchid Ave through the hotel complex and actually under part of the building into Hanlan St, ” he said. “And it provides for traffic along the Esplanade to go underground between Cavill Ave and Hanlan St allowing the development of a plaza area along that section of the foreshore.”