32 Mann Street South

32 Mann Street, near corner of Georgiana Terrace, 24th March 2018

This is a government building site, on the grounds of the demolished 1940's primary school. A snippet about it from its website:

"a mid-rise commercial building with a mixed use ground floor that supports retail uses [and] will accommodate 300+ positions from the Department of Finance, Services and Innovation (DFSI). It delivers on the Government’s 2015 election commitment and forms part of the Government’s Decade of Decentralisation Policy." (properties.nsw.gov.au/our-projects)

Sign on building site at 32 Mann Street Gosford, 24th March 2018

I think, counting floors and comparing them to the sign, construction might be nearly finished. But there will still be all the interior work to be finished after that.

South Mann Street, Brisbane Water & Kariong Ridge, 24th March 2018

Kariong Ridge in the background, the 32 Mann Street site crane transporting a load onto the site, the railway bridge to the left of the 32 Mann Street site with Fagans Bay behind it and Brisbane Water in front of it, and the Pinnacle site along the bottom edge of the photo.

32 Mann Street site & Kariong Ridge, 24th March 2018

Plenty of workers hard at it on a warm autumn Saturday afternoon. Kariong ridge in the background.

Maximum zoom at 32 Mann Street, 24th March 2018

It's after midnight on Sunday night and I can't work out what work is being done here. Clue me in, gentlemen.


 No Activity

No activity at this Mann Street South site, 24th March 2018

This Mann Street site, between the police station and the Telstra building, still lays idle. But I'm sure it will suddenly spring to life soon and give me more photos to take.


 Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford

For the last couple of weeks I've been putting out the call for local tradies to email me their work contact details and what sort of work they do for a free listing on this website and, when I get the time to add to it again, on my other site: Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford.

And I've just realised I left out a whole slab of local contractors and businesses and suppliers and carters and makers and growers by just calling for tradies. So any locally owned business or any local maker or grower can send me their work contact details and a bit about their work or business or agri-business. Tell me as much as you can and I'll edit it down so everyone gets around the same amount of screen space as everyone else.

It's FREE but it's for small and medium sized LOCALS ONLY. None with ownership outside the NSW Central Coast and its hinterland suppliers.

Lynn Avenue Point Frederick

A busy Saturday morning in Lynn Avenue Pt Frederic, 24th March 2018

A busy Saturday morning in the sun on the 2nd Lynn Avenue site. (The 1st one, another apartment tower, was finished a few months ago.)

Coffee & consultation on the job, 24th March 2018

Coffee and consultation up on the top of the site.

Re-bars & plumbing pipes in the sun, 24th March 2018

Hot sun on the re-bars and what looks like white PVC plumbing pipes coming up from below.

Deciding what to do next at the top of the site, 24th March 2018

Sorting out what the next step will be at the top of the site, with another 50 - 60 year old building in the background, immediately to the left of the site.

Possible lift & stairwell structures, 24th March 2018

These 2 vertical structures look to me like the lift shaft (left) and the fire stairs. Am I right, gentlemen?

In the background on the right, we can see the 1950's house to the right of this site. When it was built, the 2-storey yacht clubhouse would not have been there and the house may have had the sort of view down the length of the Brisbane Water the upper half of this building will have. The bottom half will have the advantage of being a mere 30 seconds walk from the yacht club and the Gosford foreshore and a mere 10 minutes walk from Mann Street's shops and eateries.

Whole Lynn Avenue site, 24th March 2018

This site is another hard one to get clear photos of. It's halfway along a narrow street. I had to stand right back against the site office to take this photo.

Lynn Avenue site office, 24th March 2018

Someone's garage is housing the site office. There's certainly no room for it (the office) on the building site.

 Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford

For the last couple of weeks I've been putting out the call for local tradies to email me their work contact details and what sort of work they do for a free listing on this website and, when I get the time to add to it again, on my other site: Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford.

And I've just realised I left out a whole slab of local contractors and businesses and suppliers and carters and makers and growers by just calling for tradies. So any locally owned business or any local maker or grower can send me their work contact details and a bit about their work or business or agri-business. Tell me as much as you can and I'll edit it down so everyone gets around the same amount of screen space as everyone else.

It's FREE but it's for small and medium sized LOCALS ONLY. None with ownership outside the NSW Central Coast and its hinterland suppliers.

Beane Street East

Beane Street East site, 24th March 2018

The apartment building site on the corner of Beane Street East and Hills Street. This site, like Grand Horizon seen here behind it, are a short 10 minutes walk from the railway station and an even shorter 5 minutes walk to the shopping centre on Gosford's main street: Mann Street. It's a small town, even though it's getting taller.

Grand Horizon on Hills Street, 24th March 2018

The Grand Horizon building has its hordings off the bottom of the facade at last and it looks like only the apartments on the very right end need to be finished.

View from corner Beane Street East & Hills Street, 24th March 2018

The view north and north-west from the Beane Street/Hills Street site to North Gosford, Narara and Palm Grove.


 Extra

The view south from Grand Horizon on Hills Street, 24th March 2018

A little old cottage around 80 - 100 years old on the left of this photo, on the corner of Bent Street (which is straight). At the end of the street down the middle of the photo (Hills Street) we can see the Imperial Centre shopping centre, at March 2018 Gosford's only shopping centre. Behind it, the 1970's apartment tower at the southern end of Mann Street and, closer to us, the Gosford branch of the Central Coast Council, also a 1970's building.

The taller crane is the closer one, on the Bonython Tower AKA "Singo's tower" site. Grand Horizon's sister building on the right edge of the photo and, in the distance, the ridge above Point Clare, Tascott and Koolewong and then, most distant, the ridge along the back of Umina on the Woy Woy Peninsula.


 Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford

For the last couple of weeks I've been putting out the call for local tradies to email me their work contact details and what sort of work they do for a free listing on this website and, when I get the time to add to it again, on my other site: Locally Owned Locally Made Gosford.

And I've just realised I left out a whole slab of local contractors and businesses and suppliers and carters and makers and growers by just calling for tradies. So any locally owned business or any local maker or grower can send me their work contact details and a bit about their work or business or agri-business. Tell me as much as you can and I'll edit it down so everyone gets around the same amount of screen space as everyone else.

It's FREE but it's for small and medium sized LOCALS ONLY. None with ownership outside the NSW Central Coast and its hinterland suppliers.