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Point Frederick apartments
Singo's Tower AKA Bonython Tower
Narringa
Hills Street & Dwyer Street

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Singo’s Tower AKA Bonython Tower

Crane at Singo's site from Baker Street, 7th September 2017

 

 

The crane at the Bonython Tower site towers over Mann Street and the whole of Gosford. It gives us a hint of just how massive the tower will be when it’s finished, in comparison to our small quiet town. And this is just the first of the big changes.

Presidents Hill in the background, 7th September 2017

The eagle-eyed will have noticed the crane in the background of this photo, which locals will know is away on the other side of the railway. That crane in the background is on Donnison Street West, by the look of it. With so much on the other building sites to publish this week, an update on that one will have to wait until next week. (For updates to your inbox, put your email address into the pinger thing in the sidebar to the right.)

Before, 31st August 2017

After, 7th September 2017

The before photo at the top of this pair, with the pipes laid, and the after photo at the bottom, with the concrete poured over the top of the pipes. The plan for this bottom floor of the tower is a restaurant, so the pipes at this end of the site are probably plumbing. We’ll find out when the whole tower is finished and we can go in and have a nose around.

Loading dock area, 7th September 2017

This is the loading dock area at the back of the site, where it lets onto Paul Lane off William Street. The zigzag wall on the right of the photo is new this week.

Structures are growing all over the site, though some are rather more mysterious than this one and we’ll just have to wait and see what they are when they’re finished and have fun guessing in the meantime.

Mystery structure, 7th September 2017

Mystery structure at the back. We haven’t had proper rain for weeks, so that must be ground water in the big hole. And men at work around one of the foundation pylons.

Hard at work, 7th September 2017

Hard-hatted workers hard at work in the late afternoon sun.


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Narringa

Narringa, 7th September 2017

Narringa's entrance, 7th September 2017

Narringa is now looking all but finished. It won't be too long before we start to see potted plants and cane chairs on the balconies.

Townhouses at the back of Narringa, 7th September 2017

The two townhouses at the back are much further along this week. The apartments are in the bigger building at the front, looking across towards the water.



Paving being laid at the front of the entrance to the apartments. Not much is left to be done outside, just fencing and landscaping from what I could see. The tradies were mostly too busy to talk to so it's hard to tell how much work is still to be done inside.


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Hills Street & Dwyer Street

Hills Street, 1st September 2017

The Hills Street apartments are a little bit closer to completion this week.

Hills Street, 1st September 2017

Potted plants ready to into the planter box in the side wall of the Hills Street site. Another sign it's nearly finished.

(The crane in the right background is on the Gosford Hospital site, where the bit new building is going on at the Cape Street North side of the hospital grounds.)

Hills Street, 1st September 2017

Even the letterboxes and the outside lighting are done now. It can't be more than a few more weeks of fiddling fixtures and fittings being finished inside, before the buyers start moving in.



 Dwyer Street

Nothing to report. No visible change. The workers on site said it'll be finished soon but most of the work left to do is inside and so it's invisible to the naked eye. Though I can say there's still some work to be done on the edges of the site, in terms of laying concrete and/or pavers and so on.


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Point Frederick

Albany Street, 2nd September 2017

Albany Street Point Frederick, on the corner of York Street. Some people call this area along the main road there, York Street, East Gosford but it's technically Point Frederick.

Pt Frederick is a long thin peninsula thrusting southwards into Brisbane Water and the top floor of this block, perhaps the top few floors, should have a pretty good view down the length of Brisbane Water. I'm not sure if they can see the lighthouse at Barrenjoey Head from this spot. It will be nice if they can. Who doesn't want to see a lighthouse from their window?

Lynn Avenue, 2nd September

Block of flats on Lynn Avenue Pt Frederick, just behind the yacht club. The outside of this apartment block has not changed in a couple of months. We can only assume there's a lot of work going on inside.

Lynn Avenue, 2nd September 2017

Two doors down is this cleared site, which goes all the way up to Albany Street, coming out two doors down from the photo at the top of this page.

This one is another of the luxury apartment blocks, not a very tall one but a mere one street back from the yacht club and, with a sea-going vessel of one's very own, one could quite easily commute to Sydney from this site. The views from the floors above the old trees at the yacht club will have lovely views down the length of Brisbane Water to Ettalong.


Come back again next week for more photos and chat and watch this small town grow.