Hotel Tower Greenlit for Adelaide’s CBD

Plans for a 13-storey hotel have been approved, further cementing Adelaide as an emerging hotel hotspot.

The South Australian State Commission Assessment Panel approved the 175-ket hotel proposed by Samaras Construction & Developments at its meeting on March 27. 

The project will deliver the hotel with conference rooms, fitness centre and a hotel-operated restaurant at 15-19 Halifax Street in the heart of the state capital. 

Designed by PACT Architects, the Crystalbrook Sam hotel will rise on a 1200sq m site that Samaras acquired in 2021 The site had previously been used as a car park.

It will offer 175 hotel rooms, and is close to another of Samaras projects, an office building at 91 Halifax Street which reached practical completion earlier this year.

▲ A render of the approved hotel on Hastings Street in the Adelaide CBD.

The Crystalbrook hotel will join a wave of hotel developments in Adelaide, including the $200-million Marriott International Hotel on the state-heritage-listed GPO building. The five-star, 15-storey asset is under construction and being developed by the SA-based Greaton.

Meanwhile, according to the Adelaide Economic Development Agency, site works have commenced on the $74-million Little National Hotel, while a consortium of IHG, Pelligra Group and ONE7 has taken on the repositioning of a 130-key hotel near the CBD.

And developer Tim Gurner filed plans for a major Adelaide precinct including 600 apartments and a luxury hotel late last year.