Where are the Local Listings?

Where are the Local Listings? They're on my new website Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford at lhttp://locallygosford.blogspot.com.au/.


Feedback made urgent the moving of the Local Listings to the new site, so they can flourish without having to be hunted down on this site.

Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford
will have live links to businesses websites and business phone numbers for tradespeople and others who don’t need websites. When I first go live, I’ll be putting up some live links and phone numbers for free until I have things sorted out and I’m ready to charge (standard) pay-per-click rates. Enjoy!

Thursday, 29 June 2017

Bonython Tower site June 2017


My apologies for posting no update last week. I was flat out on the sofa surrounded by flu medications, tissues and cough suppressants.




Overnight, about a week ago, a building on Mann Street Gosford vanished. One afternoon it was there and the next morning it was gone.

It was the bar with the palms at the front and the narrow Little Barber Shoppe beside it. Some locals may remember the black and white photos of old Gosford in the barber shop.

In the photo above, the buildings on either side of the site are the Imperial Arcade (left) and the Gosford Central Plaza (right). The white 4-wheel-drive in the intersection is on Erina Street and the Hotel Gosford is behind it. We are looking roughly north up Mann Street, towards North Gosford.

The screens across the front of the site say “Bonython Tower”. That’s the official name of the proposed building known locally as the Singo tower, after its instigator the well-known Australian businessman John Singleton. In late 2016 or early 2017, there was an article in the local newspaper about Singo’s desire to kick-start the new Gosford, the high-rise Gosford we’re seeing the start of now.

This tower has been publicised as “mixed use...including restaurant, offices, and shop top housing” with luxury apartments. Views on the southern side of the tower should have views not just down the length of Brisbane Water but perhaps also into Pittwater in Sydney. The site is a mere 3 minutes’ walk from the railway station so it would be no hardship to live there and commute to Sydney for that luxury income needed to buy into such an apartment tower.

As for the amount of shadow Singo’s tower will throw over Gosford, and how much the other towers to come will throw over it, only time will tell. Certainly, it and they will change the feel of Gosford enormously.



I had intended to collect some snaps of the Singo tower side of Mann Street one day last week but went home early instead. Not that I would have seen the old building coming down anyway, with it being demolished in a single night, according to several people who catch the bus nearby.



The site of the Bonython Tower is in blue.



Behind the site, Paul Lane runs between the southern side of the Imperial Arcade and Gosford Central Plaza on the left. The very edge of Paul Lane can be seen in this photo where the orange feet of the blue fence are and in the photo below.

  

Clean up takes longer than demolition.

Across the street, facing the site, we can see a bank, a bakery, a finance office and, to the right, a few other small shops with two floors of offices above. Behind them we can see the Council’s multi-storey carpark, another multi-storey carpark (the railway runs between the carparks) then Showground Road, Kendall Street, a small block of commuter apartments and Presidents Hill.



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