Sanctuary on Flinders
"you've found your Sanctuary"

Sanctuary on Flinders is the Lastest apartment project in Townsville.
Designed and Under Construction by Cairns based Hedley property group. Sanctuary is a hip inner city project designed to keep the cosmopolitan feel of Flinders street west Entertainment district. Cinemas, Resturant and Shopping on your doorstep or just down the road.
This is your Sanctuary.

http://www.twhedley.com.au/sanctuary1.jpg
http://www.twhedley.com.au/sanctuary2.jpg
http://www.twhedley.com.au/sanctuary3.jpg

Sanctuary UC today

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid143/pdff98b410a3af33f1005a48f8c5c514c/f6997340.jpg

From the renders I reckon this is going to look awesome - best apartment project in the city by far in terms of design.

A bigger render
http://www.twhedley.com.au/sanctuary1a.jpg

Some details:
Sanctuary on Flinders constists of a 7 storey building fronting Flinders St, adjacent to the old railway station and a 5 storey building fronting Sturt St. There are 55 apartments in total.

lol, talk about a bigger render. Thanks for that.

Pic of the crane from UQ Shopping Village.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid143/p645632659a8ac237e32baf3e616bcb76/f6996094.jpg

I will take another picture of site Tommorow and of Crane from the Cinemas, should've taken one yesterday as I went to see a movie

Hopefully this project might give the shops in the Flinders st west area a bit of a kick start. That side of town really needs a boost.

True. It's quite dull compared to the other side of Town.

From Castle Hill yesterday afternoon.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Oriolus/Sanctuary.jpg

There doesn't seem to be much space in between the two buildings for the pool deck. That is where it's going isn't it?

Looking at the plans (http://www.twhedley.com.au/sanctuary-sp2.pdf) you can see where the pool deck is - on either side of the deviation in the site's northern boundary. It looks like part of the raised pool deck is built but the other half isn't. Maybe cause the cranes standing where the other half goes?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Oriolus/SanctuaryMarked.jpg

I reckon they should've knocked down the Locksmith and Extended the project. Could've had something like 65 units doing so. They could've always add a shop there in the plan to move it back in to its original location. I also Think the Chinese resturant and the Carwash next door will be more popular once tenants move in.

If the Hedley Sturt & Walker st towers go ahead, i doubt there would've been any need to extend this project! Fingers crossed it does go ahead. :D

I wonder what type of Crane, Hedley Constructions would be using if It goes ahead. Hopefully It'll be the Tower Crane of Brisbane instead of the T shaped ones they use here.

I'm just hoping to see any sort of crane there sometime soon! :D

Drove past the site today, this one is really getting a move on!

Construction due to finish about mid 2005 same as alot of other Hedley projects in TSV and CNS.

24/12/04 - Flinders St building

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Oriolus/SanctuaryDec.jpg

Now up to 5 storeys - 2 more to go. The smaller one (Sturt St building) is up to 3 or 4 storeys (to be 5)

Seems to be going well. They expect it to be completed in March.

Sanctuary on Flinders:
Today 16/02/05
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid158/p598adb3cadd8e55f558723b18825d00b/f51bbe49.jpg
Taken on the Bus to the Mall.

Took this from Castle Hill on 13/2/05. Both are almost full height now.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Oriolus/100_1799S.jpg

I'm liking the look of this project. Can't wait to see it fininshed, will certainly liven up that end of Flinders St.

I'll say. Flinders St West is mostly just one long line of decaying 1 or 2 storey buildings. When the North Yards are developed it'll become a lot better hopefully.

The North Yards are just looking like a Prison, maybe if honeycombes added a 12 story building in there and didn't make it look like a Prison, then It'll look good.

^ More typical Honeycombs developments.........

Who's the architech doing all these Honeycombes projects - I seem to remember Fairweather Proberts designed Mint?? (They are also doing One Bright Point)

Yeah, Fairweather Proberts have done the last Honeycombes developments since Highpoint.

Urban Quarter & Highpoint are pretty similar. Even inside the apartments it's easy to tell they have the same architects.

To Clarify it. Fairweather Proberts have done:

Townsville:
Highpoint
Urban Quarter
Mint

Brisbane:
Galleria
Ikon (Indroopilly)
Oxygen

Cairns:
Harbour Lights.

Taken 2/4/05. Still hasn't topped out. Can't wait for the facade to start.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Oriolus/SanctuaryApr.jpg

I'd like to see a picture with Three Cranes in the CBD Skyline, (say around next Month).

Its also a bit of a pity that these buildings weren't say aw well taller :).

^Yes true! But we have Hedley's big ones to look forward to. :) I'm wondering whether this project is running behind? I can't see them starting T1 until this is finished and i'm sure T1 was supposed to start next month?

Yeah, The clearing of the Crappy Santa's Foodmart building. But Construction and Crane/s dont come till August

Both buildings of Sanctuary have now topped out I think - they both have the curved roof section on top and the facade is starting to take shape. Can't wait for the finished product, should be fantastic.

Yeah they're starting to look good!! The sliding doors on the balconies have been installed and it looks like the inside fitout is well advanced.

Last time I went by which happened to be yesterday, It looked like it was just Sturt st that Topped out and the Flinders West one was starting to top out.

Construction update taken yesterday.

Sturt St building
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Oriolus/100_2788S.jpg
Flinders St building
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Oriolus/100_2785S.jpg

So looks like the crane will be coming down soon, Maybe a couple of weeks.

Yep, it's looking like it won't be long now til the crane comes down. I noticed the roofing on the Flinders St building was nearing completion today.

The renders make it look like the buildings are supposed to be bigger than what they are now.

^ Maybe the scaffolding is creating a bit of an illusion that it is small at the moment. I was driving down Palmer St today, looking at it thinking that it was standing out a fair bit actually.

Some differences in design between render and building are already apparent - look at the dimensions of the white sections and the space where the shutters will go on the Sturt St building.

http://www.twhedley.com.au/sanctuary2a.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Oriolus/100_2788S.jpg

^ Well spotted!! It looks as though they've put a smaller balcony beside the main balconies. Might be a separate one for main bedroom of something?

They have, the render only shows the two main balconies.

View this morning from Lowth's Bridge, including old railway station
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Oriolus/SanctuaryJune.jpg

The scaffolding is starting to be taken down on this one, so it's getting pretty close to completion.

Scaffolding has now been removed from the back & sides of both buildings. Front facades are still being completed however. Hope they still use those wooden lourves - its what makes the renders so great.

Back of Sturt St building
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/6129/1004256s2jt.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

I noticed today, the split system airconditioning units on the balconys. I hope they cover them over, it spoils the building a bit. They should've put them out the back IMO.

Not long till the crane is taken down now, The back of the Buildings looking quite alright or A.O.K to me

The front of the Sturt St building has been revealed (but not the Flinders building). The wooden shutters are great, but its so............short.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v376/Oriolus/100_4369S.jpg

Nice!! I like it. :) The Flinders st building is a little taller though Oriolus. ;)

Well, The Flinders street one looks quite good, Even though the Scaffolding is still on it.

From Castle Hill on Saturday.
http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/8213/1004454s2ah.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

The crane was coming down this afternoon.

lol Wezza, when I saw you'd posted in this thread I thought, I bet the crane is on the way down. That's good news cause the Sanctuary crane driver is driving the T1 crane so hopefully T1 can now begin in earnest. Stilll a bit of work to go on Sanctuary yet though.

Okay, so looks like T1 can start with a Crane Driver (as Oriolus said before), and completion of Sanctuary is pretty much imminent.

LOL @ Oriolus!

I saw a truck @ BP truck stop with what looked to be yellow hammerhead crane parts this morning. They looked bigger than the Sanctury crane parts, so maybe they could be more parts for T1? I dunno........

Pic of the Flinders St building taken this morning. Both towers are now complete, just work on the podium to go.
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/9246/sanctuary9jo.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

This is coming along just nicely, Its good seeing it from the Tom Aitken Overpass on Railway Ave there.

^ Yeah it makes more of an impact than what i would have expected. Certainly not complaining about having this nice little addition. :)

Even with some slight changes, it turned out pretty close to the renders and such, but yeah, It'll pave way for Flinders Street West abit in terms of development.

From Saturday's article on T1 in the Bulletin:

Mr Row said demand for units remained strong. Its five and six-level 55-apartment project Sanctuary on Flinders had sold out. That project would be completed in the next couple of weeks and its first residents would start moving in at the end of the month. Good news - another 100+ residents for the CBD.

Probably be very surprising to me if all of T1 got sold out before completion, Some of Piermonde's in Cairns is up for sale in the Cairns Post real Estate guide.

Sanctuary really is looking quite sharp - view from Lowth's Bridge:
http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/3771/sanctuary3mr.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

The ground floor and carparking is still being fitted out but I think we can declare this completed - Townsville's first completed project thread on SSC - yay! :)

Sanctuary from Tom Aitkins Overpass yesterday
http://img495.imageshack.us/img495/5449/1005265s8pf.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

How good is the Zoom on your Camera Oriolus, bloody good if you ask me. Shows that its filling a height void in that part of the CBD.

Yeh, having a 10x zoom is pretty sweet. Here's a close up of that same photo.

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/7400/sanctuaryclose1xy.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Even Better to me :) :okay:.

After seeing this again, It makes me wonder, wouldn't it be good if most of Flinders Street West had nice Low rise Apartment buildings following it all the way down to the Train Station.

Since you bumped the thread Gertzy, I'll throw in another pic. Besides I always get grumpy when there are plenty of contruction shots but then no one bothers to post photos of the completed building. So here's one from the escarpment at the top of Blackwood St just the other day:

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/4748/sanctuarywalkerst0xw.jpg (http://imageshack.us)